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water will be hauled in from another area to this project. The parking is identified on site. Access at this time is from Lehua Lane. It was unclear at the time of the application. We were thinking that it would be from this project, the project to the north. But what it has been identified is that it will actually come from the project to the west, I’m sorry, not the project to the west but to the east. There’s going to be an access from Lehua Lane, one access for both properties; and then there will be an access easement to the second property to the west that will provide access to the larger project. The second project, which is identified at Landowner Ohia Commercial Properties, again, is a commercial project. There will be two 2-story buildings. These buildings will be actually 8,400 square feet in size. The first buildings will be 27,150 square feet in size, each building. This 2-story building, again, is proposed for commercial uses. These uses are proposed to be glass and screen shop, flooring, electrical supply, cabinet making, building supplies, farm and garden supply and upholstery. As in the first application, the applicant is proposing to have one water storage tank. This one will be a 50,000 gallon water storage tank. And, again, water will brought in from another area, or hauled in from another area. These are unique applications because previously the permits that have come before the Planning Commission in this area have been mainly special permits. You may recall we’ve had a special permit on this particular property for Bert Kamigaki; and this is for a similar type of project. He’s proposing to have an 18,900-square foot market, a 2-story 5,760-square foot building for commercial, office and retail space, and a proposed gas station. That would be located on this particular property. These particular properties in this area is the Pohue Plaza. This is located on the makai side of the road. This is a very active area in Ocean View, as you have the shopping center in this particular area on the makai side of the road and then on the mauka side of the road you have the Ocean View Town Center. And, again, these three operations were approved through special permits. The Pohue Plaza is consisting, they had come in for an amendment request which resulted in including, it allowed for a variety of commercial and industrial uses, including an open storage facility, a farmers market and all uses permitted within the Industrial- Commercial mixed use zoned district. The Ocean View Town Center was approved to allow a new hardware store, a postal facility, and a commercial building on approximately 2 acres of land. So, again, these are all in this general location, just for the Commission’s review. Recently, the Hawaii County has passed an ordinance, Ordinance 07-99. This ordinance changed the Zoning Code by adding a new section related to concurrency conditions. The Council found that because of road congestion in Hawaii County it is necessary to assess the traffic impacts of major developments if they will add traffic to roads that are now congested or will foreseeably be congested in the future, that rezonings should not take effect unless improvements to traffic situations occur before the occupancy of the project. And this is the reason that we now have this requirement that in certain projects that are of certain sizes the Planning Department will require the applicant to submit a TIAR to be reviewed by DOT or Department of Public Works to find out what those possible conditions or requirements might be for road conditions. EXHIBIT C 3