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saying that -. Also I talked with Tom Yeh, you know, he tell me it’s illegal to storage there either, even at the selling from there. So that’s why I say I have to come forward to apply for the special permit. My intention actually, you know, it’s not good a place for storage because it separate the store. So far, it’s not good. But because my business is so small, you know, it not be able to support big warehouse. Meanwhile warehouse for my agriculture business mostly is empty. This agriculture business is slowing down the movement. I can’t use all that building actually. And then my intention, it is trying to use my warehouse, to fully use it, to making money enough to pay whatever my expenses. And then I was working with my neighbors, my neighbors come up to think about to do dracaena right now, and the produce, you know, sweet potatoes and taro. Eventually I am going to make the warehouse to handle dracaena and my produce only. But currently right now I have a hard time to find a warehouse. And sometimes trying to accomplish with them it takes time to make the transit, and the financially, and also feasibility of that too. Right now I’m just trying to see if I get permission for few years to make the transition to when I could fully operate the agriculture, you know, in that premises; and then also give me time to build up my other business to be able to survive on another location, too. So I guess that’s all I like to say to you. And thank you. GRAHAM: Thank you. I think that’s very clear. And the Commissioners may have some questions. Do we have any questions from the Commissioners? Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: Mr. Yeh, in behalf of your client, she’s asking for a few years so that she can, as she has been successful with her other business, she can find a place and develop it so that that function that she’s anticipating doing there can be transferred over to the new area. How much time she’s asking for? YEH: Well, that’s a very good question. When we, even prior to the time that we submitted the application, she had a difficult time finding the appropriate kind of space that’s -. Cause to be honest with you, I mean, finding 1,000 to 1,500 square feet of space with a loading dock is just not a real easy thing to do. When we submitted the application, I did have a chance to talk to Chris, and he said why don’t you go ahead and really see what’s out there, which we did. We contacted, and Iris did, contacted no less than six brokers, some of the larger brokers in town. The only thing that was really available was 8,000 square feet of space with a loading dock. From a financial feasibility standpoint it really didn’t make sense. And what Iris is doing is she is looking; and so she’s asking basically to buy some time, not to build her furniture business, but to find an appropriate location that really makes sense. She actually has also recently acquired a piece of property on Kilauea Avenue that she’s probably going to come before you to get a recommendation of rezoning to commercial village or commercial neighborhood which might allow her to utilize that space. But as you know, it does take time for her to do EXHIBIT B 5