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Store. It’s located generally in this area. The application is just north of the Papaikou area. It’s identified in a red dot. Looking at the site plan submitted by the applicant, we have Hawaii Belt Road running in a north-south direction. This way would be to Hilo, this way would be to Waimea. We have access off a private access easement identified as Indian Tree Road. This is a paved road approximately 25 feet in width as far as the pavement. There is an existing warehouse identified in red. The actual property itself is identified in blue which is 24.03 acres in size. The applicant in this case, Jieyu Shepard, is requesting a special permit to allow the storage of tile, cabinets and home furnishing within a 1,000-square foot area of an existing 4,000-square foot existing warehouse, agricultural warehouse. This particular warehouse is identified on this plot map that has been submitted. The applicant is requesting that the area for the storage would be mainly along the perimeter of the warehouse area. These areas are identified in red. This would be, the remainder of the warehouse would be used for agricultural storage. The applicant currently does utilize the remainder of the property for agricultural purposes. The reason for the request is that the applicant also has an alternative business enterprise which is a tile, cabinet and home furnishing business. This is located in South Hilo. The applicant has done research to try to locate an available warehouse with an appropriate loading dock and has found that there’s none that exists at this time. We have received several submittals since this application has come before the Planning Commission. One is from the applicant’s representative, Tom Yeh. It is dated th September 5; and this is in response to the recommendation from the Planning Director. Additionally this morning we’ve received three letters of support from the applicant which has been distributed to the Planning Commission. I’d like to make one correction to the recommendation. This would be on page 4, paragraph 4. There’s a portion of a, line 3, there’s a portion of a sentence that should be . deleted. This would be after the left turn laneIt will start with “conditions’ and end with “the,” if we’ll just delete that out of the recommendation. The Planning Director is recommending that the special permit request be denied by the Planning Commission for the reasons stated within the recommendation. Are there any questions? GRAHAM: Commissioners, do we have any questions for Jeff before we bring the applicant forward? DOMINGO: I have a question. GRAHAM: Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Are they just suppliers of the tile and furniture, or is in the business that would bring in and sell and/or install the tiles or furniture cabinets? EXHIBIT B 2