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GRAHAM: Okay. Do you concur? RHO: Yes. IWASHITA: Mr. Chair? GRAHAM: Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA: I’d just like clarification from the applicant then. Is the applicant, obviously this motion is not going to go anywhere if the timeframe that Mr. Yuen expressed four months for the TIAR is not within 90 days. So it’s not the applicant’s agreement to go down this road? LIM: Right. I think that the concern that we have is that the preparation, it’s just a preparation, is maybe four months. The review and comment period from Public Works and the Department of Transportation I think is another 60 to 90 days after that. So we’re talking about not coming back here for 6 to 8 months. That’s our concern at the least. And so we would prefer to go the route that the Director has suggested, which is to essentially take what I think most people in their heart know probably the way to go is to close off Kekela Street and get the agencies’ comments on that, because I think that will give us the 99.9 percent solution. I don’t know that the TIAR study is going to, because that’s, a TIAR study at this stage is an estimation of what kinds of uses we’re going to have in these buildings; and we’re planning retail office and those types of general uses, but we don’t know for sure. So that’s still an estimate. GRAHAM: Can I try to restate the clarification. So let’s say, so you would expect to make this recommendation right now to close off Kekela Street, Mr. Yuen circulates that around, we come back in 60 days, and we’ll probably hear from the DOT that they still want a TIAR. We may say, well, that’s good enough for us and pass it to the Council, or we may say, well, we need to wait for the TIAR or more before we go on. And then probably you just want to run your 90 days with us and go up the Council. Is that kind of the preferred path? LIM: That’s correct. GRAHAM: Okay. Personally it seems like a reasonable path given how everybody feels on everything. But we do have a different motion on the floor, somewhat a different motion at this time. Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA: I just need a clarification, I’m sorry I’m still -. So my understanding then is that the applicant is not agreeable to take steps to do the TIAR and have it presented to the Commission for its review in this application? LIM: Although we would like to I think the delay is unacceptable. You know, we’re looking at, like I said, six to eight months for the preparation and action on the TIAR by the agencies. EXHIBIT B 29