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them to come in for their previous time extension. Again, this is looking from the bridge, seeing the <br />water flowing on the property. This was interesting that, this is an aerial photo from Google Earth <br />that already identifies the roadway on the subject property. <br /> <br />The Planning Director is recommending that the Planning Commission send a favorable <br />recommendation, with conditions. I do have just a little bit of information. The applicant has <br />submitted a letter this morning, dated November 15, 2012, updating the Commission on some of the <br />comments that we had received, as well as additional work that has been done on the property. One <br />of the comments that we did receive, Exhibit No. 10, from the Department of Land and Natural <br />Resources; even though the applicant had received the previous approval for their archaeological <br />inventory survey, they are asking that a qualified archaeologist do a field inspection on the property <br />to determine that there are no archaeological sites on the property. The applicant within the letter <br />states that she has made contact with an archaeologist, Alan Haun, and he will be conducting a site <br />inspection tomorrow on the property. I believe that concludes our presentation. Are there any <br />questions? <br /> <br />GIFFIN: Commissioners, any questions of Jeff? Hearing none -. <br /> <br />DARROW: Thank you. <br /> <br />GIFFIN: You’re welcome. Is anyone in the public who would like to testify this afternoon on this <br />agenda item? Okay, my staff has informed me that there is no one in the public who is here to <br />testify on this agenda item. Will the applicant please come forward. Please raise your right hand. <br />Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Hawai‘i County <br />Planning Commission? <br /> <br />FISCHER: I do. <br /> <br />GIFFIN: Will you please state your name. <br /> <br />FISCHER: Susan Wells Fischer. <br /> <br />GIFFIN: Will you please go ahead and elaborate more on what the staff has said. <br /> <br />FISCHER: Would you like me to read the statement, the one-page statement, that I, that you have <br />in front of you? Or I can address any specifics. <br /> <br />GIFFIN: No, I think everybody has this in hand; I mean this was distributed to us today. Is there -? <br />Why don’t you just say some general comments in terms of why you are here? <br /> <br />FISCHER: Okay. We, obviously, it’s been a long time. Our development has mostly occurred, our <br />construction has occurred in spurts, as the approvals and the plans and approved construction <br />drawings and funding and all these things align; so it has been a little inconsistent, but, for the big <br />machinery. But we have invested quite a lot of funds in this project and a lot of time, especially to <br />make it environmentally conducive to the best standard of the community, and especially in <br />focusing on the Community Development Plan, which was approved in, I think, the end of 2008. <br />And we have, there is a recommended rural infrastructure qualification or characteristics that are <br />recommended in the CDP, and we have tried to include all of them, and with pleasure, because they <br />are really good especially for highly erosive areas like ours. We don’t have much rain, but when we <br />3 <br />EXHIBIT C <br /> <br />