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questions from the Commissioners, I imagine we can go into our decision-making. And you <br />folks can stand back; and if we have a question we need to ask we’ll just ask explicitly. <br />Commissioner Watanabe? <br />WATANABE: I move to approve special permit application SPP 06-000035 based on the <br />Director’s recommendations and with the amended Condition 4 as stated earlier. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you. Any second? <br />GALDONES: Second. <br />GRAHAM: Seconded by Commissioner Galdones. Do we have any comments from <br />the Commissioners? Mr. Yuen, I had one question for Jeff Darrow earlier in the proceeding <br />where I might just, as long as you’re here now, just pop it your way. One of the conditions we <br />had typically on these towers like is Condition 7 which says within 120 days of the permanent <br />abandonment the applicant shall remove the tower, etc. And I was just wondering if the <br />Planning Department has any leverage to enforce that condition, seeing that generally you would <br />revoke a permit; but in this case, you know, the permit is not used anymore anyway if you get to <br />that point. So I was just wondering if you had any thought on that. <br />YUEN: Well, it would be a violation. There would also be fines that could be <br />imposed as a violation of the Zoning Code. <br />GRAHAM: Okay, fine. Thank you. Do we have any other -? Commissioner Rho? <br />RHO: I just wanted to make sure that Item No. 4 that it really did include this <br />one year timeframe. So, I mean, we had lots of discussion but I’m not sure exactly what <br />Number 4 will now say. So I just want to make sure that it includes that time limit of one year. <br />GRAHAM: Is that your understanding, Commissioner Watanabe? <br />WATANABE: That is correct. It was the Director agreed to that one year and because the <br />applicant was actually asking for potentially two years and, you know, as I recall the Director did <br />indicate surely there is some eucalyptus trees in that area already 10 feet tall somewhere. <br />GRAHAM: Commissioner Siracusa? <br />SIRACUSA: Since the landscaping cannot go until the tower construction is completed, <br />I would like to ask the applicant if they could tell us how soon after we approve the permit they <br />could get the tower completed. And then, you know, then we can gauge the timefame for the <br />landscaping based on that. <br />GRAHAM: Ms. Mettler, do you have a comment on that? <br />METTLER: I think we could probably start construction in approximately nine months. <br /> EXHIBIT A <br />13 <br /> <br />