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Of course, we’d have to vote on the matters independent of each other. And because I also realize that we have Mr. Housel who has, this is going to be his first meeting on this particular topic, so if we can agree to that, then I’d like to call on Jeff Darrow to provide all of us with the background and kind of briefly summarize what we’ve been through. WOODWARD: Mr. Chairman? WATANABE: Yes? WOODWARD: I have no objection, but I wonder if we should consult the representative to make sure that that’s okay with the representative. WATANABE: Mr. Lim – I see a nod. We’ve done this in the past. We’ll swear you in later. So why don’t we proceed that way? And you can begin, Mr. Darrow. DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Members of the Planning Commission. If I can direct your attention to our location map on the board. The area of this application is within the North Kohala district. More specifically, we are looking just north of Kawaihae; Kawaihae would be just south of the map. We are looking at the project location identified with a dot. It is directly across from the Kohala Ranch Estates subdivision, right on the makai side of Akoni Pule Highway that runs in a north-south direction. The property is located in the Special Management Area. It’s zoned RS-15 – or as far as the zoning goes, that is in question, but that’ll be something discussed at this hearing – currently, on the map it shows RS-15 zoning. The zoning around it is identified as Agricultural 5 acres; that’s the light green zoning. The blue identifies Agricultural 3 acres. Just to summarize, we did supply the Commissioners with a pretty detailed chronology within the background and recommendation that talks about the actions that have occurred over approximately a year and a half regarding these applications. There was a request for a time extension for Change of Zone Ordinance 97-102 to allow them time to secure final subdivision approval. Additionally, there was a request from the applicant for a time extension for SMA 379, Condition 4, the same condition to secure final subdivision approval. SMA was originally approved to allow a 50-lot single family residential subdivision on this particular property. The nd property itself is 37.88 acres in size. At our May 22 hearing, 2008, the Planning Commission approved to defer both the Planning Director initiated revocation of SMA 379 as well as the time extension request for Condition 4 of SMA 379. The deferral was to allow the County Council to finalize their actions on the pending change of zone that was occurring from RS-15 to RA 15 th acres. On October 13 the Mayor vetoed the Council Council’s downzoning of the property from RS-15 to RA-15. And on November 7, 2008, this month, the County Council failed to override the Mayor’s veto. So at this point the zoning is in question. And the Planning Director is requesting that SMA 379 be revoked, and the applicant is requesting a time extension for Condition 4 of SMA 379. This again is an aerial photo of the area, just showing you currently it’s undeveloped. We have the entrance to Kohala Ranch Estates directly across. EXHIBIT A 2