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FUKE:Yes, Mr. Chairman, and the proposed Recommendation and the Conditions. And I think we were also provided an amended condition by the Director early part of this week, and the amended conditions were reviewed by the Applicant and were deemed acceptable. The only clarification I would like to provide, supplementary information for the Commissions information is that the buildings are already under construction. You know, if you have a chance this afternoon on your way back to stop off at Costco, youll get a chance to see that the structures already are 50 percent done, 60 percent completed. So the primary intent, as the staff had indicated, is that there are very limited type of office- and medical-related type of uses that would be allowed in the ML zone. And what the Applicant wants to do, hopefully, is to bring in the kidney dialysis facility at this particular location, you know, inasmuch as it would be much more centrally located to service the West Hawai i region, you know, particularly inWaimea, the Waikoloa area, rather than having to go all the way down to South Kona. ALAMEDA:Okay. RICKENBACH:If I could just make a correction. Were not going to have a kidney dialysisclinicatthistimebutwehaveinsteadworkedoutadealwithafitnesscenter which is in a sense preventive medicine which will be taking that space. ALAMEDA:Okay. Commissioner Siracusa, question? SIRACUSA:Yes. First of all, I do want to urge both of you to speak more into the mike because I was having trouble hearing what you were saying. So youre saying now that the kidney dialysis center is out? RICKENBACH:Yeah. That didnt work out because of the wastewater concerns for the area. SIRACUSA:Okay. Cause one of my questions that I was going to ask you was how far was it to the nearest other kidney dialysis center and how many patients you treat per day; but those are now moot questions. So I would like to ask you if you had a chance to review the letter that we just received this morning from John Parazette; and he has raised some concerns. And I would ask Sidney that you address them; and then I would like to hear Director Yuen give us his take on those. Thank you. FUKE:Sure. We had a chance to review Mr. Parazettes letter, and I think that its generally accurate with one exception. And that is, like as I mentioned earlier, that the Applicant is constructing a shell right now, and under the terms of the Zoning Code, as you apply for a specific use within that area, you have to go through the Plan Approval process; and as you go through the Plan Approval process, the Department is obligated to review the proposed use relative to what the parking requirements are going to be; and, so, in so doing then thats how the required parking is kind of like further re-examined. And if its insufficient then that particular use would not be allowed until such time that the required parking is provided. 3EXHIBIT A