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contiguous with the certified shoreline. So that would mean that its not within the shoreline setback area? Or youre talking about the 40-foot after? LIM:The 40-feet mauka of the certified shoreline. SIRACUSA:Ah, okay, okay I got it now, thank you. GALDONES:Are there any questions Commissioners? Seeing that there is no further questions or no further comments from the Commissioners. The Chair is asking if there are any testimony here from the public on this matter before the Planning Commission? Theres none. Mr. Lim do you have any closing comments? LIM:Just a short presentation. Wed like to thank first of all the Planning Director and his staff for working with Uncle Billy. I think most of you know who he is. He has theUncleBillysestablishmentsincludingtheKonaInnShoppingCenter.Theyvebeen working on this for quite some years now and I think with the assistance of the Director and his staff weve managed to reach a solution that both works for the County and for us. This is one of the, probably one of the few private projects that will be able to take advantage of the public interest standard exception for your variances. Because as you probably know if youve gone down to the Kona Inn Shopping Center in the afternoon youll see numerous people in wheel chairs and the public are essentially using the front lawn of the Kona Inn as like a public gathering place. And this proposed improvements to include the ADA accessible wheel chair ramp improvements will be opening up the north side of the property and as we discussed with the Planning Director this is probably one of the few areas between here and Huggos that is private property that is open to the public. So we appreciate the Planning Commissions support on this application. Uncle Billy do you want to say anything? KIMI:Yeah, I want to thank our Planning Director Chris Yuen and the Commission for approving this application. I know maybe through this project this will be one st of the highlights of the Village. Incidentally as of the 1 of the month Uncle Billy has given the restaurant over to Kona Inn. Kona Inn is runningthe restaurant from here on and March or April of next year well be spending about 350 to 400,000 to fix up the restaurant to make it a state of the art restaurant and that the restaurant will be called Kona Canoe Club and everything will be designed around the canoes that we have here. So this will be a big asset with the extra seating here and I know the town will be very, very proud. So thank you Mr. Chairman and this appreciate very much. Mahalo. GALDONES:Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Yes, I suppose I should have asked this earlier but it only just popped into myhead.Wheretheexistingswimmingpoolisgoingtobefilledin,aretheygoingto,isseating going to be put there on top of it or? LIM:No thats totally on the other side of the project, on the south side. EXHIBIT E 4