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change such as this, “The trees shall meet with the approval of the Planning Director and be in place within one year of the effective date of this permit,” which essentially does the same thing except take out that specific 30-foot limit. That would afford our Director some time to try to digest the new information you’ve produced; and, you know, if you have other documentation you’d be able to also produce that to him. And I think you all should be able to work this out with, you know, without us getting much more specific about that. METTLER: That’s absolutely right. That was my concern. I didn’t want to, knowing that I couldn’t get 30-foot trees transplanted, I did not want to have the Planning Director have to come back to you the Commission if I knew at this time that that wouldn’t work. So -. WATANABE: But if we were to use that wording that I suggested, would that be something acceptable? METTLER: Yes, it would. The only comment that I have to make about that is that we really would like to get some direction. Because if this is approved today and this sounds like it might be a good plan, we can actually start, we can buy the trees now and start growing them for transplanting. So we were hoping that we could get some kind of a consensus from you today; and that wording is fine but we would like to really get started on it. And I know that we’ve got some work to do before we can apply for our plan approval. GRAHAM: Thank you. Follow-up? WATANABE: Well, with the Director, that wording that I had suggested, are you comfortable with that or do you have any other suggestions that you might be more comfortable with? I guess my concern here is I’d like the Director to feel very comfortable with whatever we’re recommending, rather than just make a change on the fly. And I think the Director has shown you already that he is flexible enough because obviously we started with a no recommendation and we’re at a place for an approval recommendation. So, you should be able to work it out. I don’t see where this should be a major stumbling block. GRAHAM: Okay, thank you. Mr. Yuen? YUEN: Yeah, actually I’m comfortable with what they’re presenting here. What I would suggest is in 4, the first sentence, we take the word “established” out where it says “the applicant shall plant established trees.” Then we simply take out the entire second sentence, “The trees shall be at 30 feet in height and in place within one year from the effective date of the permit.” And then substitute a sentence that says “The applicant shall implement a tree planting program as represented,” and that will be the sentence. I think the overall, you know, there can be some changes but basically what is presented is fine. The main issues are that the trees have to be maintained. You know, there was a tree planting condition for the US Cellular tower at Malua Gulch. The trees, after several years and the applicant trying to get out of the program because it turned out they actually didn’t have site control, which is another condition on this, then they did finally plant the trees, but they haven’t maintained the trees. They’re not growing, they’re not doing anything with them. It’s not working at all. So we have to be sure that if we’re going to accept the cell tower and what is not really a great location from a visual point of view EXHIBIT A 8