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GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Yuen. Any questions from Commissioners? Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA: Yes. I’m looking at the Lehua Court application for change of zone. And the very first question is if your request is approved do you intend to subdivide, and you wrote yes. And I got the impression from reading everything else that actually what we’re looking at is a consolidation and not a subdivision. And if that is the case, I would like to make that really clear on the record that the Lehua Court lot is not being subdivided into three separate parcels but being consolidated from three into one. Am I correct with that, Jeff? GRAHAM: Jeff? DARROW: Sure, if I could respond to that. Let’s take a look at the conditions for Lehua Court. Condition B states that Tax Map Keys 9-2-93:40, 41 & 42 shall be consolidated within one year from the effective date of the ordinance. So this is a proposed condition for the rezone. SIRACUSA: Right. So then that was, I guess, a handwritten typo when it was written down that he intends to subdivide.I just wanted it to go on the record so that anyone reading it later on down the line should be absolutely clear what we’re talking about here. DARROW: Sure. GRAHAM: Mr. Yuen, did you have a comment on that? YUEN: Not specifically on that. But I just wanted to follow-up a little bit on the presentation, and Jeff did a very good job of discussing this application and the presentation. I wanted to spend about five minutes just to talk about zoning and special permits and the process, and why this was coming in as a zoning now rather than a special permit. The basic idea in land use is that you have an overall master plan which in our County is the General Plan; and then that identifies your preferred locations, possibly in a more or less general form and not down to the exact site; and then within those areas you have zoning. So, for example, in the towns that we have around the island, the older towns like Hawi or Honokaa, they’re zoned Commercial, Village Commercial, CV; and under the State Land Use Law the idea is a town like that or village center like that is in, supposed to be in the Urban district. It may be surrounded by an agricultural area, but that’s the basic idea of the State Land Use Law. Now we also have special permits. And the special permit is a procedure to recognizing that you can’t plan everything out in advance and that there may be reasons to have unusual uses within the State Land Use Agricultural district. And although, you know, EXHIBIT C 5