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The Planning Director is recommending approval of the request for Condition Nos. 4, 5 and 6 <br />but is requesting denial of the request for Condition No. 12. The Planning Director feels that the <br />applicant should come back after a 15-year period, 30 years is too long of a period to not have <br />them come back to the Commission. Are there any questions? <br />WATANABE: Fellow Commissioners, any questions of staff? Seeing none, and because <br />I have a tendency to forget, for the record there is no one signed up to testify for this. So with <br />that may I call up the applicant and their representative. Oh, just you, Mr. Melrose? <br />MELROSE: Ray is going to sit next to me, just to keep me company. <br />WATANABE: Oh, okay. But you’ll be doing the bulk of the presentation? <br />MELROSE: That’s what he told me. <br />WATANABE: Okay, may I swear you in then. Would you both raise your right hand. <br />Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Planning Commission? <br />MELROSE: I do. <br />KLOUNING I do. <br />WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Melrose, your name and address first. <br />MELROSE: Yeah, my name is Jeffrey Melrose. I live at 1405 Waianuenue Avenue, <br />and I’m a member of this church and representing it in its planning request today. <br />WATANABE: Mr. Melrose, have you had an opportunity review the Director’s <br />recommendations? <br />MELROSE: Yes, we have. <br />WATANABE: And are you satisfied with his recommendations? <br />MELROSE: We have no problem with the recommendations and the denial. We <br />understand the issue of the timeframe. We were just looking to see how often we have to come <br />back through, you know, what’s the will of the Commission and the Director in terms of <br />frequency of coming back for minor changes in this process. <br />But just a little bit of background, the church got this property about 15 years ago after, 15, 18 <br />years ago. They had a church located over where, right in the middle of town by the post office; <br />and with the help from the Bishop Estate moved to this location. <br />And I think when we originally made that move we had lots of big ideas about what kinds of <br />things the church could/should do.And we realized that, now 15 years into this process, we have <br />a strong congregation but there are limitations of resources, and the fact that there’s a new <br />Christian church in Keaau today anyway, it actually eliminated the need for a want to do a <br />school, K-12 school. So we took that off. The parsonage was not a thing that the church wanted <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />3 <br /> <br />