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WOODWARD: Let me ask you, Mr. Walter, how large is the Shipman Business Park? WALTER: Shipman Business Park is zoned for 488 acres. It is not all developed. We do it, we do this in phases. It’s maybe 35 to 40 percent subdivided. We have a lot of room to grow and go in the business park. WOODWARD: Okay. Well, that brings up my other question. These guys are looking at a 20-acre development. You have 480 acres of which a good part is not currently developed and you want to expand. WALTER: Yes. WOODWARD: So it brings up to me the question of are you just protecting turf? WALTER: I think that’s a fair question, Rell, and I’m glad you asked that. If we were protecting turf then we never would have gotten to the point in agreements that we had gotten to. In the long run, this is actually 10 acres. It’s not 20 acres. He’s using that for some light industrial uses that don’t cause safety issues, that don’t cause the potential theft issues that we’re concerned about. We went through that carefully and we felt like these uses are not going to impact those two issues. Any use, any use impacts demand on the business park. And we, you know, we’re not going to look at that. And when you look at the size of the park and the number of acres he has asked for, you know, 10 acres is less than one phase of our park. It really is not the kind of thing that, it makes no sense for us to come out and try to stop uses of small pieces like this. It does what are, one of the drivers for us is we don’t want to look like bullies, that we’re just trying to lock out all competition. And that’s one of the reasons we had hoped that negotiations would be complete, and that the safety and theft issues would be well taken care of, and we could just move on. But, you know, negotiations are broken off, for what reason we really don’t know. And so, you know, there we are. We remain with the safety issues. And I would point out as I did last time that there is another applicant who came through very recently for a water bottling facility within a quarter mile of him and we made no objection to that. You know, that’s fine. But we have also gone to users, the school wanted to put in a cross-walk. As I pointed out the last time, we insisted that they have an engineer who could certify it because we have a safety concern. WOODWARD: All right. Well, I appreciate your frank answer. Thank you very much. DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman? WATANABE: Okay, yes. Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: In regards to your safety concerns and the road width, is it not common knowledge that when they come for plan approval that the Department would look at all these issues and thereby impose any restrictions that would be addressing the safety issues? And then if that is done then Public Works will then recommend the improvements that need to be made? WALTER: I’m not certain that that would happen. Remember the road that they are on is a private road that we own; and the liability falls to us, as does the maintenance. So whether Public Works would come forward and insist on improvements on a private road is, you EXHIBIT A 15