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<br />So, I tried my best to kind of outline the Special Permit area that the Applicant is requesting. <br />You can see that on red, outlined in red on the slide. <br /> <br />The General Plan designation for the property is Low Density Urban which is shown in the light <br />mustard color that allows for Single-Family Residential at a lower density as well as convenience <br />type commercial uses. The remaining portion of the property is designated Important <br />Agricultural Land, and the property is in the Agricultural District, the State Land Use <br />Agricultural District, which is why they are requesting a Special Use Permit. <br /> <br />This is an aerial view of the property. I didn’t outline the whole property, but it’s in this general <br />area here, the larger property. And then the Applicant’s proposing the farmer’s market in this <br />general location here on the property. You can see that there’s no existing structures at this time. <br />And, there is a, there is an old camp road that comes off of Māmane Street here, and traverses the <br />property in a mauka-makai direction. Hard to see because it runs along the gulch here. And then <br />there’s another old camp road that just goes from the highway to Māmane Street. <br /> <br />So, the Applicant is requesting to establish a farmer’s market on a 6.7-acre portion of roughly <br />32-acre property within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The market facility would also <br />be used for Agricultural related weekend workshops, informational booths, and youth activities. <br />The market will be an all-weather, open-sided, cross-shaped structure, totaling about 4,000 <br />square feet. It will initially house approximately 20 vendor stalls but will be designed in order to <br />expand to accommodate more vendors in the future. <br /> <br />And, the marker would be held on one weekday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., and one weekend <br />day between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. The Applicant would also like to respond to the needs of the <br />community in the future by adding a third market day during non-peak traffic hours. <br /> <br />They estimate approximately 100 to 200 customers will attend the market during the weekday <br />market, and 200 to 300 on the weekend. <br /> <br />And, access will be from Māmane Street which is a State roadway. There is a 20-foot wide <br />gravel driveway that extends off of Māmane Street, and all parking will be provided on site. <br /> <br />The Hāmākua Harvest project will be a phase development. It will include a site for an annual <br />Hāmākua Agricultural Festival, a demonstration working farm and learning center, a full-service <br />retail nursery, a compost facility, and a roadside market offering locally grown produce and <br />value-added goods, as well as an agricultural processing facility. A lot of these uses are <br />considered permitted in the State Land Use Agricultural District, which is why the Applicant’s <br />just coming in to request the one use that’s not permitted, which is the farmer’s market. <br /> <br />This is a site plan, and it’s a little hard to see because of the topographic lines, but I highlighted <br />the driveway in green, so Māmane Street is just off to the left of the slide. The highway runs <br />along the south side in this location here, and you can see a driveway off of Māmane and then a <br />long driveway up to the farmer’s market site. And, I’m going to zoom in to this site in just a <br /> <br />2 <br />EXHIBIT C <br /> <br /> <br />