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DARROW: Thank you. Our applicant is Hawaii Brewery Development Co. Inc. They are requesting an amendment to Condition No. 5 of Special Permit No. 842. The location of this application is within the Puna District of Hawai‘i, more specifically we’re looking at the general Keaau area. The town center is located in this approximate area on the lower portion of the map. On the upper right-hand or left-hand portion of the map we have Shipman Industrial Park. And then running through the middle of the map we have the Volcano Highway. Additionally we have the Pahoa Bypass that has the main intersection in the middle of the map. The outline of the property is identified in black. The zoning of the property identified in light green is Agricultural 5 acres; and the surrounding darker green is Agricultural 20 acres. We do have several properties in the vicinity that are of different zonings. We have Commercial zoning, some Residential zoning in yellow, as well as some Family Agricultural zoning, Family Ag 1 acre and Family Ag 3 acres, in these general locations. I apologize for the darkness of the map. This is an aerial photo. We have the Volcano Highway and the Pahoa Bypass, and in the center of it we show the location of this special permit. It does show the existing water bottling facility identified in this area. The applicant is requesting a five-year time extension to Condition No. 5 which is the condition that requires construction be completed by a certain amount of time for Special Permit No. 842. It was originally approved in 1993 to allow the development of a brewery, water and soft bottle, bottling facility, soft drink bottling facility, on 14.587 acres of land. The Planning Department’s recommendation is that the Planning Commission approve this with the amended condition, that this timeframe would be from this second amendment with the five- year extension. Are there any questions? WOODWARD: Questions? Do you want to go on with the second one or you want it one at a time completely separate? DARROW: Well, I have two presentations. WOODWARD: Oh, all right. Okay, well, we’ll just do it that way then. Mr. Fuke, I guess you’re in charge of the -. Being the representative, if I can swear you in. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? FUKE: I do. WOODWARD: Okay, if you’ll give us your name and address, and then your testimony, sir. FUKE: Okay, thank you very much. My name is Sidney Fuke, I’m a planning consultant. I am representing the applicant, Hawaii Brewery Development Corporation. My business address is 100 Pauahi Street, Suite 212, Hilo, Hawai‘i. Basically, I’d like to just give a general background because as what the Chair had mentioned, you know, these two applications are definitely related. And so I’d like to give you some general 2 EXHIBIT C