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we’re basically looking at maybe smoothies. But I am wondering, cause I don’t see anything listed here, what kind of approvals did you get for a commercial kitchen? YEH: Department of Health permit. LEITHEAD TODD: Okay, because I noticed that when I looked at the health stand, the menu and the kind of things that are offered, it goes far beyond smoothies and -. YEH: This is true. And basically what it was is at that time, you have to understand what they were trying to do was to say that they would make these island-made health snacks. There was a partial list, just like the kind of fruits or smoothies that were offered was partial. But as a -. LEITHEAD TODD: I’m just saying that this looks more like a commercial kitchen and restaurant. YEH: They did get a Department of Health, Food, Health Permit, yes. LEITHEAD TODD: Okay. But that was not the representation to the County. I’m looking at, this is garden burgers and tamales and nachos and hot dogs and chicken wraps and all other, you know, turkey sandwiches, roast beef sandwiches. And I’m just wondering whether that was covered by the Department’s -. Mr. Darrow, I’m just wondering whether our approval, our plan approval for the fruit, envisioned or covered a commercial kitchen and the sale and preparation of lunch items as well. DARROW: In 1994 basically they were reviewing the use based on the letter that they had submitted. In that letter they did not reference any certified kitchen and they didn’t reference any, I could be wrong there. What we’re going to do is right now we’re getting the actual plan which was in the office. But it didn’t reference any sandwiches or wraps or anything of that nature. It was mainly looking at items grown on the property as well as some island snacks like the several snacks they had identified. And then again we’re looking at the other issue of items that are just novelty items that are being sold. LEITHEAD TODD: And the reason I’m asking is in other applications we’ve actually had to approve as part of the use permit the certified kitchens, if you’re offering, if you’re selling stuff that’s not made on the premises. And it seems like the sandwiches and stuff went far beyond health snacks. You know, it went beyond cookies and bars. And so that’s the question I cover, is whether our plan approval covered that or whether this -. And so I’m really sorry to be asking this question at this stage and not sooner, but I’m just questioning whether to be consistent with what we’ve done with other properties, whether that needed to be included in this. So I’d like to have staff take a swipe at that. YEH: Yeah, just to respond to that, then I will say that I’m not sure what the practice was in 1994, and as you can understand over time businesses tend to evolve based on what people want. And it just was a, kind of a transformation from then until now. So I’m not sure we can blame the applicant for that, but that’s what happened. 9 EXHIBIT A