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meeting. Within this letter, they mentioned that Condition I of Ordinance 02 131 was that they be able to meet the deadline of submitting, receiving Final Plan Approval by November 27, 2007. The applicants actually did meet this deadline; so they did comply with the Condition. They are asking for the deferral based on this letter that they are in the process of, in negotiations for selling a portion, or this particular project. And they want to be able to, if things go well, then they’ll withdraw their application; if it doesn’t go well and they need to revise the Plan Approval or resubmit, that they want to have this opportunity to come back to the Planning Commission to do so. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Darrow. Generally, when an applicant asks for a time extension, we generally go along with that. But we do have a number of people to testify here today. So we’d like to hear from them. Could you just give us a little quick run-through of the project for the Commissioners, so that testimonies we will receive will kind of ring familiar tone in our ears? DARROW: Sure. If I could also just mention, too, that we have received other letters. th We’ve received letters from Cliff Johns, dated, or received December 4; a letter from Penny th Fediuk and that’s December 4; Gary Preston, this was dated December 4, 2007; Karen Wood and David Fediuk. These are all dated December 4, 2007, and should be with the Planning Commission. GRAHAM: Thank you, Jeff. DARROW: If I can direct the Planning Commission’s attention to the location map, the area of this application is within the North Kona District. Running in a north-south direction through the middle of the map, we have Queen Kaahumanu Highway; it’s identified with a wide gray line. We also have Kuakini Highway that also runs in a north-south direction. There is a red line that runs through a portion of the middle of the map. This is the Special Management Area line. Everything on the lower portion of the map is within the Special Management Area; everything above the map is located within the, outside of the Special Management Area. The applicants, in this case, this actually has been an application that is, this change of zone occurred in 1984, which changed the properties in this particular area from Unplanned to Single- Family Residential 15,000 square feet, as well as Multiple-Family 5,000 square feet or RM-5. The conditions of the change of zone were very specific in regards to the phasings of the projects in regards to the single-family development and the multiple-family, as well as improvements and when they should occur. Additionally, these properties are affected by a LUC docket order that was approved in 1983, changing this area to Urban from Agriculture. In that particular docket, there are also some stringent drainage improvement requirements that have to be done prior to the construction of the RM portion of this property. Additionally, there was an affordable housing agreement that was executed. Again, we apologize for not having the background; it’s just that at this point, until we hear further from the applicant, it may not be necessary to submit that to the Commission. But in that affordable housing agreement, there also are pretty strict conditions requiring the applicant to construct drainage improvements for this particular area. I’m sure the Planning Director might be more familiar with the specifics of the drainage problems in that particular area; but it appears that through the development of this, that the applicants will have to resolve these drainage problems before construction can commence on the RM zoning. EXHIBIT B 2