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LIM:Yes I do. I€d request that that be included as part of the record. <br />ALAMEDA:Okayisthereany objections to that fellow commissioners? Okay, so <br />noted, go ahead. <br />LIM:Okay, the orientation on the photos is the makai looking to mauka view of <br />the Kona Inn Shopping Center project and I€ll walk you through the photos in sequence. The <br />second photo is a picture looking towards the makai, which is the public access entry into the <br />project. The third photo. <br />GRAHAM:Excuse me a second. I don€t know if I€m at a lost of order, I just want to <br />make sure I follow what you€re doing here. There€s no numbering on them or is there? <br />LIM:No,I€msorrywedidn€tputanynumbersonit.It€s,I€lltrytodescribethe <br />photos though. The second photo is a picture of the hallway looking towards the ocean where <br />you can see a wooden walkway. Yes that€s correct. The third photo and fourth photo are <br />pictures of the south side of the frontage of the lawn intended to show you the expanse of the <br />lawn and basically the general usage by the public. As we discussed last time this is one of the <br />few areas in Kailua-Kona where the public can actually get down to the water. And it€s used <br />often by wheelchair participants. By people of all walks of life. You can, I didn€t you know <br />specifically wait for them to show up at this area, it€s just photos of who were there at the time I <br />was there. The next photo is a photo looking at the frontage of the lawn in the northerly <br />direction towards the King Kamehameha hotel. And all the way in the back of that photo you <br />can see the edge of the building there, that€s where the ADA ramp is and that€s the next photo. <br />You can see that the existing building, which has been there for many years is located fairly <br />close to the sea wall. The concrete portion that you see there is going to be the repair up to ADA <br />standards. What€s happened basically over time is that as you can see the grass area on the <br />southside in the middle of the project is a lot better shape than the grass area on the north side <br />and a lot of that has been due to the fact that people haven€t typically gone back there. What <br />Uncle Billy plans to do is to develop the ADA ramp here at the corner of the building taking it <br />back into the project area. This is the second to the last photo. You can see about 4 palm trees, <br />coconut trees? That€s the location of the proposed project. Uncle Billy will be building the <br />lanai. It€s going to be raised up to the level of the existing restaurant that you see there and it€s <br />going to be incorporating those trees into the project. We won€t be tearing down those project, <br />those trees. What he also wants to do is to bring in some palms and line the sea wall area with <br />palms. We€ll probably be moving the naupaka back towards the building edges and then <br />increasing the watering of that area so that it becomes that nice green lawn that you see for the <br />rest of the area. I think that would encourage the people to come in there for public access. As <br />part of our SMA minor permit we€re required to file with the Planning Department for their <br />review a revised public access plan and hopefully this could be part of that, that plan. That last <br />photo is just a photo from the south side looking north to the edge of the property. And so I <br />think you know what we€re, what we€ve tried to do is to conform the project to the criteria of the <br />shoreline setback variance rules. And you know we think as I indicated in my correspondence <br />that we would qualify, I guess we€d be one of the few projects, few private projects that would <br />qualify under the public interest standard. We also believe that the hardship standard could also <br />EXHIBIT A <br />3 <br /> <br />