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KILGORE: This, this -. SIRACUSA: How many stories did you say? The, no, the one to the left, the, yeah. KILGORE: Banyan Tree’s is actually four, but they have a taller floor-to-floor height than we do. We are all under the 45 feet. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Kilgore. I was concerned a little bit on a lateral access. I know Mr. Yeh spoke of there being shoreline access reasonably close both to north and south. And so I think what we want on a lateral access is for people to be able to walk along the shoreline and all. And when I first, I looked at the picture there, there’s certainly a lot more than 20 feet of distance from your building to the bottom there. So that must be into the public property, and I presume much of it is rocky and not green. So can you give me a little update on what it’s like walking along this shoreline and what you are going to have on the makai side of the building? KILGORE: I can cover that. Yeah, it’s actually a sacred shoreline area, so we are not allowed to improve upon the area there. But it has been grubbed previously as recently as 1980. But it’s all overgrown again. And you are exactly right; from the average place where a layman would maybe define the shoreline, our building is about 70 feet back. So there is plenty of room for lateral access, yes. YEH: Maybe I can give you a good picture of that -. GRAHAM: Yes, Mr. Yeh, thank you. YEH: If you take a look at the letter that we submitted late last week, we have what’s called Exhibit G-1, and maybe you can refer to it. That’s a black and white photo, but I think you can still see relatively well. If you take a look at Exhibit G-1, which is a shot from the shoreline basically looking mauka, you’ll see that there are a set of coconut trees; those coconut trees are actually mauka, I mean makai I should say, of the innermost point of where the certified shoreline now is. If you take a look at the right hand side of the photo, you’ll see, you can just barely make out the location of an existing seawall that’s on the property to the south. If you now take a look at the next Exhibit G-2, that’s showing the Banyan Tree Condominium, which is to the north, again there is an existing seawall which ends at the property line on the north side. So if you were to go walk laterally along the shoreline from either north or south direction, you would be basically staying well makai of where those coconut trees are noted. And of course, where the certified shoreline is, in Exhibit G-3, it’s actually a little bit mauka of where that lone coconut tree is, close to that fence line that you see. So from a lateral access standpoint, for this particular property, I think you can see that there is – when you measure 20 feet mauka of that, then current condition from the Planning Department is to say there shall be no development and there is going to be a lateral access plan worked out with the owner – so practically speaking, you are actually able to go well inland of where you would go, if you were walking along the shoreline, than having to stay on the makai side of those walls on the each side. I hope that helps. EXHIBIT E 6