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area? I mean, cause we don’t have the report in front of us, we don’t have that analysis in front of us. But what could we suspect or how can we, I mean, I would like to put some of that in the mix cause that’s going to be a condition on the traffic. HAYASHI: I can’t speak for the Department of Transportation so I wouldn’t be able to answer that question. ALAMEDA: Okay. Thank you. GRAHAM: My concern very much relates, I think, with what Commissioner Alameda is saying, is we get lots of applications before us that have traffic issues and generally we try to deal with traffic issues. And so it’s almost like a timeliness thing. If we come to a situation and there’s a lot of traffic issues but we’re not sure how they’re going to get dealt with so we just say, well, maybe we’ll approve the rezoning and whatever the Department of Transportation says that’s how it’s going to be dealt with, somehow that feels a little bit like punting the ball and we should be involved. And perhaps the Department of Transportation has different concerns, they’re concerned about the road. So if their recommendation says do this and this and do that, some of those things may be prejudicial to the public or to other users but that’s not their concern, yet it is our concern. So, again, my concern is just the timeliness thing. If these issues are not kind of crisp before us to decide on and evaluate, I don’t feel so comfortable just sort of putting them off in the future and saying do a TIAR and let the Department of Transportation deal with them. SIRACUSA: Mr. Chairman? GRAHAM: Yes, Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA: A lot of times when we’re doing these permits and traffic is a big issue we already have the TIAR submitted to us. And considering the problems there already, I would feel much more comfortable if we had the TIAR first before making any decisions. And I’m wondering if that could be done, and if not why not. GRAHAM: Well, I’m sure we’ll hear from the applicant about that in a short while but we’re just putting forth our thoughts to Norman here. Mr. Yuen, did you have any comments to make right now? YUEN: Well, I mean, I’ve had similar thoughts. And I think it would be, it’s possibly something that we should talk about with both the Department of Public Works and the Department of Transportation. Because if are, it would be useful to look at the whole picture before you rezone the property. We’re in the situation where we take an application, we send it to the Department of Transportation for comment, we just recently got the comment, their comment was we want to see a TIAR and then we’ll decide what we want to see in the improvements. And so we moved it ahead with that recommendation. There are jurisdictions that have standard requirements of when they’re going to call for a TIAR. They will say there are expected more than “x” number of trips for a location. I’ve done some EXHIBIT B 5