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GRAHAM: Yes, Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA: I’m prepared to make a motion. GRAHAM: Yes. SIRACUSA: In the matter of change of zone application (REZ 06-000052), Ginger Patch, DP, LLC, I move that we defer decision on this application until such time as we have a chance to review a traffic impact analysis report on the subject matter. GRAHAM: Do we have a second? RHO: Second. GRAHAM: We have a second by Commissioner Rho. Thank you. If the Commission will allow me, I would feel like it would be appropriate to question Mr. Lim as to whether it’s okay with him that we take this, if, take this course where it involves a continuance for 90 days. SIRACUSA: Please do. GRAHAM: Mr. Lim, would you come forward, please. Do you have any comments on how you’d like to go forward here given what you’ve seen from the Commission? LIM: I think just overall the timing on getting a traffic impact analysis report is something in the neighborhood of four months, usually. In part it’s, you know, I have a personal issue about the traffic impact analysis report. It helps you, if you see the TIAR you see what the level of service is and you see the recommendations typically from the consultant, and then according to Commissioner Rho you would then input that into your decision and maybe make some of those recommendations conditions of approval of the rezoning.I guess the problem that I would have then is then what happens with the State Department of Transportation Highways people? You know, are they then foreclosed from doing what they want to do for whatever reasons? So there’s this tension between having the Commission act as traffic experts versus letting the people who are charged with the responsibility of handling it do their job. I know that there’s some hesitancy on the Commission Members’ parts that some of the agencies don’t do their job; and, of course, that’s true like anything else. But to some degree you’ve got to trust the system. So that’s why I say in terms of requiring a traffic impact analysis report for every single rezoning even if there are traffic issues, I think it helps you a little bit; but I don’t know how that actually plays into making a decision and putting those recommendations into a condition because it does to a large degree foreclose what the experts in the agencies can do. GRAHAM: Okay. I just wanted to also point out that although this is the motion we have on the table we did have an offer by you two to move the Kekela Street which the Planning Director wasn’t comfortable with unless he got commentary from the departments. So another EXHIBIT B 26