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WATANABE: Is that what you are referring to? W. MINSON: Yes. WATANABE: What are you proposing, that no setback be allowed? W. MINSON: We’re asking -. If we could stay with G for now, the driveway, since the picture is up there. As it was explained earlier – thank you – the upper driveway has been permitted and in use for a few years now. It’s already been approved by County. So it’s an existing, usable driveway that -. You know, we are on site everyday; we’ve never experienced a traffic problem on that corner. The sight distance issue could probably be addressed by taking some fencing out. The previous picture here, that’s pretty tight, I agree. But that, look where the car, the car is not legally driving on the road, right? He is on the wrong side of the white line. So let’s move to this picture. This is the exit for our upper driveway. So if the car is coming down the road properly, there is quite a bit of distance here to gain the sight distance before the vehicle exits out this way. And you notice this median that we put in here; that is purposely put there. So this is in-lane; this is exit-lane. That was intentionally done, so vehicles exiting -. Between the right white roadway County line here and our property line there is an additional, like, twelve feet there. So not only do you have this radius, but then you have the separation, so nobody can block this driveway for traffic moving inward; you’ve got this traffic sitting here with plenty of clearance to exit. So these are usually designed with safety in mind. We weren’t eliminating that factor. But we did meet the Code at that time. And that’s why the property shows that and designed that way. To go back to this picture on the second floor, that’s the in-lane right there. The car in the photo was right there. And this is our exit-lane. Now this not only feeds the upper parking lot, but as you come back down this auto ramp here, it feeds this parking structure area here as well. So to accommodate rezoning to MCX and have adequate parking count, we had to add this to gain enough parking stalls including an ADA compliant here, here and here. So every individual cube of parking would have ADA compliance. So to cut that entrance/exit out would eliminate -. To gain access for all the businesses up here and down on this level, that’s a major thoroughfare for us; so that’s why it’s important for us to keep that active. And the whole property was designed with that in mind. This also shows -. This is Phase I, existing and in use. Phase II, upper level, and Phase III, upper level and lower level; they’ve already been permitted. So we are waiting to see the outcome of the rezoning issues, the conditions before we can advance on the project. So we are actually permitted and ready to continue building, and we are anxious to get going. But what we initially did was design this whole property, so we can prepare -. This project was prepared for MCX zoning, because ML you only need 1,000-square foot for stall – we’ve got 84 stalls there for 30,000-square foot of floor space – we only needed 30 stalls; we could have accomplished that so easy. So the whole project was actually designed for -. We prepared for the rezoning. We did all the meeting with all the committees, the Planning Department, several people, Fire, EXHIBIT A 4