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commercial use that they can do anything that’s permitted in the Commercial District. You put all the conditions in necessary to encompass whatever might happen under that commercial zoning. So they can change their plans and do something else, and do whatever. That’s sort of a textbook idea of zoning My feeling from having been, from six years of working in the Planning Department, listening to people in the community, hearing the Commission, the Council, applicants is this -- that when you walk down that road very often you’re in a situation where you’re really not comfortable with the worst case scenario or full buildout scenario, yet the person who is applying has a very specific idea in mind that is just fine. So you’re in a position of having to turn down the applicant, who wants in this case, for example, to convert a very nice existing home into an office, because you are concerned maybe it would be 7-Eleven or a gas station. And you’re not really happy with that prospect, maybe you are, maybe not. But you have to go through that analysis. So, given that, I personally made a little philosophical shift here in that I am comfortable with having these kinds of very specific recommendations -- not that this should be the rule, not that this should be the normal way of doing things. But where we have something that is presented that is pretty specific from the applicant, pretty limited like this one where although there is some commercial zoning what is still pretty residential as an area, that they can look at having these very limited and specific kinds of zoning conditions. GRAHAM: Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE: Yeah, as a follow-up then I take that to mean you feel comfortable that we can enforce this even in spite of the classical thinking of how we change zoning. So I take it you’re comfortable with the way it is written now. YUEN: Right. You have to, and that’s where findings come into play because every condition of zoning has these findings that they’re necessary for public welfare, etc. As a matter of legality you will find older court cases that are stricter and say that you can’t put, that zoning should be one size fits all and that you cannot put a lot of conditions on zoning. I think by far the majority of modern court cases are much more flexible on this and uphold reasonable conditions attached to zoning ordinances. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Yuen. Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA: Yes. In Condition B where we’re talking about landscaping according to Rule 17, and I looked at the photographs and it looks to me like the property is nicely landscaped already. So I’m wondering if anyone looked at that existing landscaping vis-a-vis what would have to be changed to accommodate Rule 17. Is the existing landscaping better than Rule 17 or would Rule 17 be better than the existing landscaping? I don’t know if maybe Jeff went and looked at the property. And if so, did you look at it thinking about Rule 17? GRAHAM: Go ahead, Jeff. DARROW: Unfortunately being part of the Planning Commission there are other divisions within our Department that works specifically on plan approval and landscaping EXHIBIT B 3