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ONO: Well, I’m assuming that we’re talking about a residential loan. This is a business loan.
<br />Business loans don’t—is not—
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<br />CONANT: No, he, when I talked to him, he needs the loan also to, he’d like to build the office
<br />area bigger, and also put some extensions in the back, I think because right now they don’t have
<br />enough room to do some of the work that they need to do.
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<br />ONO: So assuming, Mr. Kanuha, assuming that we do the ten year, in the process in, within the
<br />10 years, you’ll have a 5-year time table so that the proposal for that total development of this
<br />area takes place, so that let’s assume that it goes into Industrial whatever district, does that mean
<br />that they would have to come back and ask for another 15 years to get this loan, or can we say
<br />that that’s part of the, you know, ten year, and then we only need to get, accept the proposal for
<br />another ten years? I’m just trying to help them out in terms of getting their financing, but it
<br />seems as though, you know, it’s---if something, it takes place in the next five years for a
<br />proposal, can we add this ten years so that we only add another five years so that they can get the
<br />loan or is--. How does that work? I’m totally confused about that.
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<br />CONANT: Just to clarify, don’t think the residential loan has anything to do with it cause he has
<br />another home in HPP, and he was saying, you know, he would be willing to sell that to finance
<br />his home.
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<br />ONO: Oh no, I’m sorry, I was thinking of the business portion of the loan.
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<br />CONANT: Right.
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<br />SONG: Mr. Tavares actually came to me with the former Planning Director and Mr. Sumida
<br />because they were interested in rezoning the property to Light Industrial, and when we met, we
<br />were told that the Planning Department is probably going to initiate a General Plan Amendment
<br />for that. So assuming that’s done, and the Planning Department review, then I believe that my
<br />client along with some of the other property owners, will apply to have the property rezoned to
<br />Light Industrial so they won’t need a Special Permit, so hopefully you won’t see him back again
<br />for another time extension, even with a 10-year period.
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<br />ONO: Thank you.
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<br />KANUHA: Mr. Chairman, maybe I can clarify something for Commissioner Ono here. The
<br />applicants came in, they were already, you know, they have five years, okay. So, their request
<br />was to have no limitation on the life of the Special Permit, or in the alternative, they said they’d
<br />be okay with a 10-year extension. As you know, ten years has been our normal recommendation
<br />for Special Permit extension conditions so in the course of reviewing this specific application,
<br />my comment to the staff was, you know, this is actually a 15-year extension, so the notion of
<br />granting extensions in order to allow the petitioners to secure financing, etc., you know, really
<br />doesn’t play into the, into the concepts. Special Permits are actually designed not to be there
<br />forever. That’s why—they’re like an exception, a variance to a land use. And so, in—we’re
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