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HAYASHI: If the lot is already existing, there is nothing to prevent anyone from coming in for a University District zoning. However, when we review it, we look at the lot size; and based on what the proposal is, we may recommend denial of the rezoning request, since the lot is too small for what is being proposed. GRAHAM: Okay. HAYASHI: I don’t know if that answered your question. GRAHAM: Well, it certainly answers it partially. I’m just wondering whether this very substantial split we have here is really just not asking for, you know, someone to sort of end-run it, that’s all. HAYASHI: I think basically the intent was to accommodate private, as well as public, larger type of universities to be established within an area, and I think most of these would require larger lots to accommodate whatever permitted uses would be in the zoning district. You’ll have your classrooms, you’ll have your athletic fields, you’ll have some of your commercial facilities, dormitories, as well as students and faculty housing, so you need a lot of area for a University District. GRAHAM: Yeah, I certainly feel the same way, and my sense of the intent of this of the least for 7,500 square feet might be if you are the university and you want to lease a portion of your place to me to run a bookstore or something, you can lease that 7,500-square foot parcel to me and run a bookstore, and I can still keep the University Zoning for that. But it just strikes me that just by having a pure thing in here saying a lease can be as low as 7,500 square feet, it opens up all kinds of other things, too. That was my only concern. Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE: I understand where you are coming from. I sense that you kind of support the proposed changes overall, though. And I think there is also a clause in here which indicates that the maximum private usage other than university is 20 percent of the area. So that to some degree is going to be a controlling factor. And I believe, as far as the 7,500-square foot area that potentially can be subdivided and leased, that was more for support services that students generally need but probably the university would not want to provide because that’s not their forte. And in context of the overall 10-acre minimum size that they are talking about, you know, that would provide for a lot of open area and like the walking paths and biking, so that the students didn’t necessarily have to drive through traffic to get to the university, etc. So overall I sense there is an attempt to create a lot of balance in this. GRAHAM: Thank you. Commissioner Alameda? ALAMEDA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question for Norman. There is another classification in zoning called Project Zoning, which allows some mixed development. Tell me how the University District Zoning would be different from that. HAYASHI: I think the University District would be quite similar to the Project District; except that the Project District basically was we were looking at -, well, that’s what’s in the current Code right now, it allows the landowner the flexibility to later on identify where these single family residential units would be, where apartments that are proposed, there would be also EXHIBIT B 3