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UNGER: Thank you. We can start over here, please, or, Mr. Lim, would you like, okay. Please
<br />state your name and area of residence.
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<br />MACY: Jason Macy, Waimea.
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<br />UNGER: That’s fine and you can continue with your discussion and we can continue down, if
<br />you’d like to start. Or, Mr. Lim, would you like to start?
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<br />LIM: I’ll go ahead and start.
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<br />UNGER: Okay, go ahead and introduce yourself and —
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<br />LIM: Okay. I’m Steven Lim, attorney for the applicant. And with me today are Nahua Guilloz
<br />from Parker Ranch, Inc., the senior manager and corporate secretary, and on my further left is
<br />Jason Macy who is the president of WHC, Ltd. Parker Ranch, Inc. being the overall business
<br />entity for the entity you guys know as Parker Ranch, the Parker Ranch Foundation Trust being
<br />the current landowner, and Mr. Macy’s company WHC, Ltd., some of you know that as West
<br />Hawai‘i Concrete, that’s been the long time lessee for the property doing the quarry.
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<br />As you might have gleaned from some of the background on this project, this is the request of
<br />the applicant to extend the time, the life of the permit. We are not expanding the quarry nor are
<br />we adding any additional uses. There was one request that we made to the Planning Department
<br />early to determine that the conditions that were imposed by the Planning Commission and the
<br />Land Use Commission in the Special Permit did not require us to come back for a time extension
<br />that means to me for approval of the lease extension, but the Planning Department felt that the
<br />better course is to come back through, and that’s why we are here today. So that relates to the
<br />amendments to Condition No., new Condition No. 5, old Condition No. 7, that you see in the
<br />recommendation. And the deletion of the footnote for, which is all the way at the bottom of that
<br />page, that footnote was unreasonable; I, we felt that we didn’t have to come back to the
<br />Commission, Planning Commission, and to the Land Use Commission for approval of the lease
<br />extension. But it was, like I said, determined that we should come back, and so here we are.
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<br />I wanted to confirm that the written direct testimony of Juliann Nahualani Guilloz and also the
<br />written direct testimony of Jason E. Macy was in the record; those are basically their written
<br />testimony in support of the request. This is a project that’s been in existence through many years
<br />now, and has formed the backbone of a lot of the rock and material that’s been used in the
<br />development here in Kona. We request that the Planning Commission give us favorable
<br />condition of the time extension. And when I’m reading the new Condition 5 as proposed by the
<br />Director, it says, “The life of this Special Permit shall run coterminous with the current lease
<br />between PR Mauna Kea LLC and WHC, Ltd., which terminates on September 30, 2037.” I
<br />wanted to make it clear that we request that the Commission adopt language that allows
<br />assignments of the lease without further review by the Planning Commission or the Land Use
<br />Commission. And if that’s, if that’s something that requires an amendment, we can suggest
<br />language on that. My suggestion, if the Commission desires, is that we just delete the words
<br />“between PR Mauna Kea LLC and WHC, Ltd.,” and insert the word “quarry” between the words
<br />“current” and “lease”; so it would read, “The life of this Special Permit shall run coterminous
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