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doing. They provide both the botanical garden experience, a rainforest walk, interestingly
<br />enough, a Segway tour that one can take, and then they have zipline on some other property. All
<br />of those really considered to be outdoor recreational uses or botanical gardens which are actually
<br />permitted out of Chapter 205 and the Zoning Code. The real issue for this permit is a visitor
<br />center itself. And, for the hours of operation, you know, I’m not sure anything is standard. As I
<br />understand, just north of the property, there’s another zipline operation with a visitor’s center.
<br />They actually have a 7 a.m. beginning time also, and the idea here was to allow not only if
<br />necessary, you know, visitors to the center, but also people in the vicinity, some opportunity to
<br />get refreshments, coffee—that sort of thing.
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<br />And then, Mr. Robinson, you may want to talk about a couple of other issues.
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<br />ROBINSON: I’ll just add a few other things. This was a, an odd corporation to begin with, and
<br />it was basically brought about as a, an interesting property for a botanical garden. It was, more
<br />or less, a failed objective from the beginning because the location is at a, at a place that you have
<br />to come by, by happen stance. It’s really, you know, the guests of the island come by there if
<br />they’re driving around to go to the Volcano which, since the new highway went in, is very
<br />optional. That, that area has a small population, but a population of kids, locals that, that really
<br />have very few opportunities close by.
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<br />A few of my partners and I that were on the Board of Directors with World Botanical Gardens,
<br />had funded the zipline in 2009 which allowed the gardens to, for a brief moment, flourish with,
<br />with revenue—hire more people, become vibrant. And then seven other ziplines realized how
<br />easy it was to put up a zipline. Most of them not going through the, the approval process that we
<br />did; going through the permitting process; and some of those were able to jump in as the first
<br />zipline and subsequently have gone bankrupt.
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<br />We’ve been able to fund, by funding through a limited group, the three of us that are now the
<br />LLC that bought all the assets from the failed corporation, have continued to try to supply those
<br />jobs to those people that are local, continue the garden growing. We were responsible for
<br />bringing Segways to the gardens which if you haven’t tried them, they’re just marvel,
<br />marvelously entertaining, but mostly allow guests to the gardens to see how wonderful the
<br />collection is that’s there. The collection itself continued to grow by virtue of a, of a man who,
<br />Dr. Lanny Neel, who is a professor of some 40 years now, 23 years in, in at just the University of
<br />Wisconsin, River Falls, and he brought his knowledge to that location and really shared it with
<br />the gardeners that are there now, shared it with the, the staff. The staff does a marvelous job of
<br />imparting the knowledge about these plants that have, are numbered in the thousands and we’re
<br />cataloging those still and trying to make this a resource to the community as well as to the guests
<br />that visit and find out how marvelous this place is, and how magical that location is.
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<br />So, we’re really just asking to continue the, what was the original vision that caused so many of
<br />us to become involved in the gardens in the first place, and to actually fund that and finish the
<br />vision. Unfortunately, the shareholders that were participants in the old corporation recognized
<br />the vision, but it just couldn’t be done through the structure that had been created with that
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