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b. Continued hearing on an amendment to Condition 4 (time to secure final subdivision approval) Special Management Area Use Permit No. 379, which allowed the development of a 50-lot single-family residential subdivision. The property involved is located along the southwest (makai) side of Akoni Pule Highway and st the Kohala Ranch Subdivision, Kahua 1, North Kohala, Hawaii, TMK: 5-9-1:8. GRAHAM: The first item on our agenda today is a three-part item, initiated by the Planning Director, and it has a relation to Item 2 where the application is Kohala LLC. The first item initiated by the Planning Director – these are continued hearings in both Items 1 and 2 – the Planning Director’s initiation is for a change of zone on 37 acres of land from Single-Family RS-15 to Residential and Agricultural 5-acre, which is RA-5. The second part of that is repeal of Zoning Ordinance 97-102 which rezoned the same parcel of land from Ag-5 to Single-Family Residential RS-15. And the third part of the Planning Director’s initiated agenda item is also a continued hearing on revoking the SMA, Special Management Area Use Permit No. 379, which allowed a development of a 50-lot single-family subdivision on this same piece of land. The piece of land is owned by Kohala LLC. It’s located along the makai side of Akoni Pule Highway and the Kohala Ranch Subdivision; that’s in Ahupuaa of Kahua 1, North Kohala, Hawaii. The second item of business, which I’m going to put forth right now because I think we’re going to for the most part handle the two of them concurrently, is an application by Kohala LLC. It also has been continued from prior meetings. It’s asking for an amendment to Condition C, which is a timing condition to secure final plan (sic) approval; that amendment is to Change of Zone Ordinance No. 97-102, which rezoned the same parcel of land we were speaking of, 37.88 acres, from Ag-5a to Single-Family Residential 15,000-square foot, which we call RS-15. And the second part of Kohala LLC’s application is a continued hearing also on an amendment to Condition 4, another time related amendment, time to secure subdivision approval, and that’s related to Special Management Area Use Permit No. 379, which allowed the development of the 50-lot single-family residential subdivision. And again we’re speaking of the same piece of property I spoke to before in North Kohala on the makai side of the Akoni Pule Highway across from the Kohala Ranch Subdivision. We have communications on these items, both from the Planning Director and the attorney for the applicant. We have one person signed up to speak from the public today. And before we do any of that, Jeff will give us a little background on both of these items. Jeff? DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Members of the Planning Commission. Usually we do give a brief background on this particular application, but I’ve been asked to defer this to the Planning Director. I just wanted to bring to your attention that we have th received also a correspondence this morning from, which is dated December 11 as well as August 30, 2007, these are two letters and they are from different parties, six different parties that are listed on the letters.These appear to be support letters for the Planning Director’s action. If I could defer this to the Planning Director at this time. GRAHAM: All right. Mr. Yuen? YUEN: Good morning, everybody. The short story is that the applicant has asked for deferral of any action today, and I have written a letter which was put out yesterday and EXHIBIT A 2