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JACKSON: access driveway. <br />HENKEL: Okay. Thank you. Will the Applicant and/or their representative, please come <br />forward? Good morning. <br />YEH: Good morning. <br />HENKEL: Will you raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this <br />matter before the Planning Commission? <br />YEH: I do. <br />DEWALD: I do. <br />HENKEL: Okay, please proceed. Use the microphones, and state your name and where you <br />reside. <br />YEH: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the Planning Commission. My <br />name is Tom Yeh, representative of the Applicant, and here with me today is John DeWald who <br />is a principal of the Applicant Rhodes Moore, LLC. <br />I wanted to thank staff for the great Background Report and Recommendation. I'm not sure <br />what else we have to say. I mean, the property over the years has, hasn't been developed <br />because it does have challenges, you know, involving both traffic and drainage issues, but I think <br />from a perspective of, you know, creating a great economic use for the property while meeting <br />what we consider to be a pretty high need for assisted living facilities here in East Hawaii that <br />will give residents an opportunity to stay here as opposed to go to other places like Honolulu or <br />even Kona side, the Applicant is also in conjunction with its engineering representative who's <br />also here, Yen Wen Fang, come up with a pretty good plan for dealing with both with drainage <br />improvements, accommodating those issues as well as the traffic issues that are generated by the <br />project. So, I think with the road widening, the restriping, the addition of turn lanes, we're gonna <br />have a pretty good, sustainable project. There's another component that was shown on the map <br />which is also a commercial segment which is also why we felt, you know, that one of the revised <br />conditions that was presented to you, does allow that to also be subdivided out and not be tied <br />necessarily with the assisted living facility. <br />But, with that, we're open to questions or comments or anything of that nature. <br />HENKEL: Mr. Yeh, did you get the Planning Director's Background Report and <br />Recommendation? <br />YEH: We did. We did. As well as the revised conditions, and we're in agreement with them. <br />HENKEL: Okay, thank you. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />5 <br />