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GRAHAM: Mr. Yuen, I noticed, you know, in the subsequent application before us today you’ve given an unfavorable recommendation because of off-street parking not being adequately available and all. And I’m presuming that we are assuming here that aside from using the driveway there will be an adequate amount of off-street parking provided. Does that all come about at plan approval time? YUEN: That’s taken care of at plan approval, and physically it looks like there’s enough space. I think the standard, is it, do you know if it was 1 to 300 square feet for an office building? What’s the square footage on the home? MANFREDI: It’s about 1700 square feet. YUEN: So they’d be looking at six spaces. It doesn’t take a lot of space. There’s a question you have to lay out the parking, there is room for it. So if it didn’t work out, then they’re either stuck or they’re in a position of asking for a variance from the parking requirements. GRAHAM: Right. And often in cases like this, we do have sort of specific parking kind of delineated for us at the time we deal with this application. But you don’t feel there’s anything necessary as far as conditions or as far as what we look at today that would ask for that? YUEN: Yeah, it’s better to have it; but there is clearly space for it. So I trust that they’ll be able to do it. And if they can’t, then they have a problem. But it doesn’t, you know, if we have an application that you see right off the bat that there’s a big problem, then we’re going to do a negative recommendation. And I know what you’re talking about. Typically we have seen in a site plan with a commercial building that lays out the parking, and often sometimes there are changes from that. We look at the approval of the, say, the change of zone does not necessarily approve the site plan because we actually as a Planning Department typically are not doing the full plan approval type review of their proposed site plan. And, in fact, we have seen site plans that weren’t going to pass. So, you know, it would be a better thing to have. But given that you’re looking at 6 stalls it doesn’t take a lot of space to accommodate that, and they do have space around the house to do it. GRAHAM: Thank you. Jeff? DARROW: Just to bring to your attention, too, there is an existing garage on site. So that’s probably two stalls right there. GRAHAM: All right. Thank you. Any other questions from Commissioners? Thank you both. We don’t have any public testimony, so I think you all can sit back now; and we’ll go into our deliberation. Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE: I move a favorable recommendation be forwarded to the County Council regarding Change of Zone application (REZ 06-000054) with the following changes: Changing Big Island Ventures to Big Isle Ventures and also revising Condition B, the last sentence of which is to read, “The applicant shall retain the existing landscaping or provide landscaping in EXHIBIT B 9