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located within the Special Management Area. The applicant Steve Holmes is requesting a Special Management Area Use permit to allow his single family dwelling to be converted into a 3-unit multiple family residential dwelling. The Planning Director has recommended approval of this request by the Planning Commission, as well as also with an amendment. If you recall there was a- an amendment to condition 4 which had, regarding the sewer connection. Let me just get that here so-. Instead of it saying that- if I could just read it for you for clarification. The number 4 states that to “Install a septic system with leach field meeting with the approval of the Department of Health. Certificate of occupancy will be approved only upon compliance of an approved septic system from the Department of Health or upon connection with”- and we have amended it to say “an approved sewer system” instead of a County sewer system. Are there any questions? GALDONES:Questions, Commissioners, of Jeff? Seeing no questions, will the applicant or his representative please step forward. YUEN:While they’re coming up, I wonder if I could make another comment? GALDONES:Mr. Yuen. YUEN:This has been in front of the Commission a few times and I want to continue to recommend approval of this SMA permit. In reviewing an SMA permit the Planning Commission has to look at whether the project has a significant negative environmental or ecological effect. If it does then and if that effect can- if those problems can’t be dealt with by some kind of condition or mitigation, then the Planning Commission should vote against it. But in looking at the significant effect, scale is very important. What we have in this application is an application to take a building that’s legal as a single-family dwelling and convert it to a triplex. That means- the difference is that you can add two kitchens to it.It wouldn’t necessarily lead to more people living there. Chances are it would, but it does not increase the number of bedrooms. The concern about the- the additional- the concern about water pollution- the amount of additional nutrients that would come from having a few more people on the property if that is what happened, is not necessarily true, is really- it’s really a tiny increment. You really can’t look at that as significant factor in this location. It’s a tiny increment in an area that has a lot of homes that are also on septic. And if you look at the site visit today, you look at the neighborhood, it primarily consists of-it seems to be duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes, pretty similar to what the applicant wants to put in. I do have a couple of- from the site visit I have a couple of suggestions that- for additional conditions that would deal with whatever issue there might be over gravel and runoff. And that would be, first, that the applicant pave the portion of the driveway on his property. That would eliminate any possibility that there’s gravel running off from the applicant’s property. He is going to have to pave the parking lot as a condition of doing the multi-family building. That’s something that’s enforced. That will be called plan approval in the County. It’s an administrative step in a V-zone of parking is supposed to be paved. So, to get the occupancy on the multi- he would have to do this plan approval and then have the parking lot paved. So while he’s out there paving the parking lot they would pave the driveway. The second suggestion- 2