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GRAHAM:Okay, fine. Maybe, well, later when Mr. Mooers comes back he can respond to that. Thank you. FUJIKAWA:You may proceed. HANEY:Thank you. I just wanted to answer your question. I was the people who said that I saw it in the application, which I could show you in a later point in time. ItÓs a sketch and it might be preliminary so IÓm just, unfortunately, like I said, you know, IÓm not blaming the developer for this. Our Board has not been able to get us any information at all. We have not seen any viewplane drawings, weÓve seen next to nothing. What I had to go on is what is on the application. What weÓre actually referring to is theyÓre like sandboxes that go on the end of the swimming pool area. They jut out from the edge of the swimming pool. It looks like thereÓs sand in there with palm trees coming out of it. ThatÓs the nearest thing we can tell. I hope that that wouldnÓt be allowed. Maybe I saw it wrong on the drawing but it sure looked like that to me, so -. Thank you. FUJIKAWA:Okay. Commissioner Kubota? KUBOTA:I have a question of the Planning Director. You know, IÓve heard in testimony by these people here that the kiawe, old historic kiawe tree was chopped down, the gravesite was there, and so forth. And yet we have, on the other hand, contrary reports in our background by consultants that were hired by the Applicant. My question now is how much, how much obligation is the Applicant under to provide for these kinds of concerns that the testifiers here bring forth to us? And they are legitimate concerns. But the owner is under what kind of an obligation to satisfy these concerns that they bring up, how much do they have to do over and beyond hiring a consultant to do archeological work and accepting or not accepting their reports? Over and beyond that, how much, how far do we have to go, the Applicants have to go to acquiesce development can take place, other than going through the proper channels of getting permits and following the rules and regs of the County for development? How much more do they have to give? FUJIKAWA:Planning Director Chris Yuen, go ahead. YUEN:Well, first I want to hear what the Applicant has to say about the information about the burials. Because burials is a very sensitive issue. If we left it, if they said we donÓt know anything, we would ask him to make a tho into, try figure out what has happened here because, you know, this being that there was a burial and thereÓs no physical sign of it anymore. It may be that the Applicant has no idea of what happened, that the property was in its present condition before they bought it. And then I think we would say that if anybody, if it appears that at some time in the past the burial has been removed, then they would not be expected to do anything further. FUJIKAWA:Does that answer your question? 14