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these were the adverse conditions that we thought were prevented by all the aforementioned conditions and Ord. 95-33. We don't cite these to "kill the messengers". They are employees/clients who are assigned to park in a specific area. It doesn't occur to most of them that it's an intrusion in our lives because it's a parking lot and it's an assumption that parking lot behavior as previously stated is okay. Would the applicants raise the ground height of the proposed parking lot to further exacerbate the downward flow of exhaust fumes, etc. on our living spaces? We have seen what effects exhaust and noise have on our homes and lives with the minimal plantings along the PPB boundary. There is no noise, exhaust or intrusion on our privacy mitigation with the plantings. We had been invited by the applicants to a meeting to discuss mitigation plans for the proposed parking lot and also "to show support for their project". If we don't want a parking lot, why would we present ourselves to discuss anything and "show support for their project". As a result of our experiences with both parking lots, we know that no plantings or walls can restore even a semblance of the quality of life that we once enjoyed before "the professional development by our good neighbors who would ensure our privacy and security". The applicants come now for a rezoning of a residential property to a parking lot. No matter how they describe the area, a commercial parking area will divide a residential community -our homes -and not fulfill the goals and policies of the Land-Use Commercial Development Element of the General Plan: "... Distribution of commercial areas shall meet the demands of neighborhood, community and regional needs. The development of commercial facilities should be designed to fit into the locale with minimal intrusion while providing the desired services...". A commercial parking lot dividing a residential subdivision certainly is not ~~minimal intrusion" as we have been unfortunate enough to experience and fortunate enough to have their adverse effects proven. Further, on May 10, 2007 at 9:10AM, my daughter, Vianne Reis overheard a conversation between two local males along the PPB parking lot fence. An unknown male asked "Sean" (identified himself last week during a phone conversation near the subject property) if the other could install "the wall" as close to the retaining wall without disturbing it and cut the existing fence down. The wall height was 10