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the State Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, or DOBOR. They are requesting a Special Management Area Use Permit to allow improvements of the Kawaihae Small Boat Harbor South improvements that are within the Special Management Area. They are requesting a Use Permit to allow the small boat harbor improvements that are located within the Multiple-Family Residential-1,500 square feet zone district as well as the Open zone district. And lastly they are requesting a Shoreline Setback Variance to allow the portions of the small boat harbor improvements that are located within the 40-foot shoreline setback area. The area of this application is located within the Kawaihae area. We are looking at Kawaihae, Mahukona, Akoni Pule Highway running in a north-south direction. We have Queen Kaahumanu that breaks up on the lower portion of the map, and we have Kawaihae Road that extends up to Waimea. The area that we are looking at is identified mainly in black; that’s the parcel that is application is occurring on. The applicant is only requesting improvements within the portion of this parcel. This is an aerial photograph. If you can see the difference of the actual TMK map versus the aerial, there is a portion that’s not identified; this is the area that we are looking at, called the Kawaihae Small Boat Harbor South. There is also another small boat harbor that we’ll be referring to, which is identified as the Kawaihae Small Boat Harbor North, and that’s located just in this particular area. The applicant is requesting a Special Management Area Use Permit to allow the following improvements: portion of a 45-foot wide, concrete three-lane boat launch ramp with two loading docks, one that will be ADA accessible; main floating dock with accessible pedestrian ramp and gangway; grading and drainage for vehicle and boat trailer parking areas; grading for the realignment of the vehicle access through the project site; boat wash down area; comfort station with an individual wastewater system, outdoor shower, water and electrical service installation; and other miscellaneous improvements. The Use Permit again is to allow the improvements within the RM zoning and the Open zoning. And the Shoreline Setback Variance is to allow those improvements within the 40-foot shoreline area, which are identified as a portion of the boat launch ramp, the west side ADA ramp, and a portion of the east gangway. Looking at the aerial, this is specifically the area of the Kawaihae Small Boat Harbor South. The improvements are going to occur just in this particular area. There is going to be the floating dock; they are going to be utilizing moorings and buoys to allow the docking for at least 30 light- draft vessels at this time. There is going to be a comfort station and other improvements, but the main improvement is to relocate the existing light-draft vessels in the North harbor to the South harbor. The reasons for the request, number one, is safety. Looking at the harbor, you have what is called the Deep-draft Harbor, or DDH, that you’ll see inside the application. Quite a bit of activity occurs within here with larger boats; you have barges, and happening in approximately 2010 you’re going to have Superferry starting to come in with an increase of passenger, large passenger boats coming in to this area. They want to be able to relocate the vessels that are in this particular area out to the South harbor, so that they can decrease the possibility of there being any type of accidents that may happen. And again, the other main reason is to relocate the particular Small Boat Harbor North to the South. EXHIBIT E 2