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<br />UNGER: Please state your name, resident address, and again, please, even though the speakers are <br />not working, please speak into the microphone. <br /> <br />HAITSUKA: Thank you. Good morning, Chair Unger, Members of the Leeward Planning <br />Commission, Mr. Kanuha, Ms. Ho and the Planning Department staff. My name is Ed Haitsuka. <br />I’m an attorney with Carlsmith Ball. My home address is 75-357 Nani Kailua Drive, Kailua-Kona, <br />Hawai‘i 96740. I represent the applicant, PR Puu Pa, LLC. And today I have Ms. Nahua Guilloz <br />who is also representing the applicant, and Mr. Kevin Balog who represents the proposed project <br />operator, Kohala Coast Concrete & Precast, LLC. <br /> <br />UNGER: Thank you. This is your opportunity to, have you received the background report and <br />recommendation from the Planning Department? <br /> <br />HAITSUKA: Yes, I have. <br /> <br />UNGER: Do you agree with their recommendation and the conditions associated with the <br />recommendations? <br /> <br />HAITSUKA: We would agree and comply with the recommendations. <br /> <br />UNGER: This is your opportunity to provide further comment or clarification. <br /> <br />HAITSUKA: Regarding Commissioner Church’s comments, the particular project area was chosen <br />because it is adjacent to property that is being currently utilized by the project operator’s sister <br />company Edwin DeLuz Trucking & Gravel, LLC. The land to the south, to the south that’s within <br />the Urban area marked up there, that is actually owned also by the applicant, but that particular area <br />was not chosen because it’s zoned for light industrial, and this particular use is not allowed in light <br />industrial. <br /> <br />CHURCH: There you go. Thank you. <br /> <br />UNGER: Thank you. <br /> <br />HAITSUKA: You’re welcome. <br /> <br />UNGER: Commissioners, do you have any questions of the applicant? Thank you. You may be <br />seated. <br /> <br />ARAI: And, Mr. Chairman, if I can now expound. Thanks for the explanation, but Commissioner <br />Church also made mention of the General Plan designation. General Plan being a broad brush <br />document, it provides the Director with some flexibility interpreting, you know, whether or not the <br />uses are generally consistent with the General Plan. And he has done so in this particular instance, <br />especially knowing the, looking at the close proximity of the Industrial designation relative to the <br />project site itself. <br /> <br />4 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />