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As you can see, because of the shoreline setback issue and the decrease in buildable area, it squeezes the building up as well as parking. What, just to show you also what – if I can have Jeff circulate this – two nights ago, a representative of the applicant, around 10:20 p.m., took some photographs of the Banyan Tree Condo, which is just to the north, it’s a 20-unit condominium, has 25 parking stalls; and so photographs were taken both from the north side of that condominium, and also from the property. And you can see, really there is no overflow parking. This is the time when people would be at home, ready to go to work the next morning, or whatever is that they do. And so we think it’s really a good example of why the parking stalls that we have here, which are actually in excess of the ratio that’s for that particular building, should be sufficient. That’s all I have. And I didn’t bring any findings and conclusions for you to fight over. So hopefully we make it easier. KILGORE: Yes -. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Yeh. Mr. Kilgore? KILGORE: Their requirement is 1.25, and we’ve done our best to exceed that. Once upon a time before the shoreline had been pushed so far back, I believe we were up to 21. But because the shoreline is pushed so far back, the best we can do, again I pushed the stair around and I decreased the utility room, which has kind of upset my engineers. But I got another parking stall in there. We are at 18, which is 1.6 per unit. GRAHAM: Thank you. I had one other little issue there with regard to flooding and issues like that. I know not long ago we had another SMA permit farther, not too far from here on Alii Drive, where the neighbors even wanted to contest the permit because of possible flooding. And it seems to me that in your situation, we’ve just handled it in a very, you know, standard boilerplate way, you know, that you will handle any water on site, that kind of thing. Are there any water transport issues going on right now, you know, with heavy rains and things as to how you have to deal with water that might come across Alii Drive or down Alii Drive, or-? Because I don’t see any background on that kind of thing and I’d like to be sure that we are considering that. KILGORE: Certainly. There is actually the base flood elevation as defined by the FIRM maps – it goes about there – and it says 12 feet. So what that means is that no occupant floor can be below that 12-foot elevation above sea level. We, of course, have done that. And in the interest of the owner and building the project property, we would, our civil engineers would provide for dry sumps and perhaps even backup pumps that would alleviate any kind of storm water accumulation. GRAHAM: Yeah, I’m, aside from how you are going to deal with that situation, I’d like to know kind of what is the lay of the land as far as any water coming down from the mauka direction and how you are dealing with it or if you have to deal with it or where it goes, if you have any insight into that. KILGORE: I’ve not, having many times been to the site, I’ve not seen any evidence of a lot of water coming off Alii Drive onto the site. I can’t say that it seems to be a problem. GRAHAM: It’s not in any low spot at all along Alii Drive there? EXHIBIT E 9