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proposed amendments to Condition D which was the recommendation to consolidate the parcels. Since we don’t have any plans to cross the lot lines with a new structure, we’d like to delete that condition. And our proposed condition to Condition F is the Public Works’ comment on curb, gutter, sidewalk construction on the Hinano Street side of the property. We’d agree to do that upon any future conversion and construction of a new commercial or residential structure. At the present time and probably for the fair, you know, kind of good near-term, I think that they’re going to be conducting the tour operations out of the existing structures. So we probably won’t be doing a new building for a long time. ALAMEDA: Okay. Fellow Commissioners, you have any questions or, how about -. Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman, thank you very much. Mr. Lim, what is the extent of the business that is being conducted there? LIM: This property has a history in that they had some prior issues; and I think that was some of the result of this November 2, 2007 letter from Jeffrey Joseph and Teresa McCrary who are the adjacent property owners on the Hinano Street side just behind the property. In mid-2006 they were cited with a notice of violation by the County for keeping their large buses -- they call that mini buses, they carry about 25 people or so -- on the property. And they were essentially using the property as a baseyard for their commercial operation, the tour operation. So they were cited for that. And what they did was they relocated all of the mini buses and the baseyard operations off the property first to Waianuenue Avenue because they thought that was allowable; and that turned out not to be proper zoning either. So they moved as of about June of 2006; and they’re still over at Silva Street in the General Industrial zoning where they have their baseyard, they keep all the big buses. The only thing that you will see on the property today is the smaller regular type of vans where they carry about 10 people. Those are partly used for tour operations, but partly used for personal; and we’ve been informed by the County that those are allowable. They don’t conduct any baseyard or marshalling of the customers at the property. We note that the letter from Mr. Joseph and Ms. McCrary indicated that they had couple of instances in September and August of this year showing the Green tour buses there in the morning hours. And I asked my clients what that was about and they said that it might have been one of those situations where the buses came to pick up something that somebody forgot or, you know, to pick up some paper; but it wasn’t a situation like they’re running the tour buses through the property. Essentially what happens every morning is that the tours start out from the baseyard and also from the property with the smaller vans. They leave, they pick up the customers either at the tour ship or at the airport. They’ll go, one typical route is they’ll go out to Akaka Falls in the morning, circle back out and go up to the Volcano, come back down and hit the Mauna Loa Mac Nut Factory, and then drop off the customers at either the airport or the ship. They won’t bring them back to this site here. That’s not the intention. So, you know, we tried to do that and arrange it that way to minimize the impacts on the neighbors. You know, but EXHIBIT A 3