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We would ask that, that is our most important, I think, point, is that we are very much worried about that negative impact, the trash in our community as we try to improve it and pave it. We are also worried about liability, cars by the -, traffic of unlicensed vehicles, and with the drug traffic that's already happening at the existing, part of the project that has been completed; and it's not being addressed. So we have to -. So we do have community concerns that have changed since the project has been started and, therefore, it has changed our feelings. Please let me reiterate, we are not against this project, we are for the project. But we are for it being done with community input and with the developer pa mitigation of the financial impact negative to our community. H months ago, we would have probably been able to iron this out and come before you this morning and say we are for this project. We would like to do so development in our community. It produces jobs, revenues, services for our members, which is what we are charged with doing as a board, and therefore, we -. So please do not take our statements as being anti-development or anti this developer. We're anti this development as it stands now without conditions and safeguards that we see necessary for our community to be put in place. We do understand that there are other permits required to complete this project. But we feel if some of the safeguards are put into the special use permit that it will be much easier for us to appearing before further boards and further commissions, further planning hearings, to say that this has not been met or has been met. That's why we're requesting that it be added as a condition of the permit. We feel that that way we'll protect the interests of our community in the future. As Mr. Okuyama himself has stated, they have made promises to us in the past that were verbal outside of the permit process. They have not been -, the commitments have not been met. And therefore, we are therefore now asking that they put in writing, be codified, so that we have a so-to-speak legal leg to stand on should they not be fulfilled in the future. Thank you, ma'am. KUBOTA:Thank you for your complete answer. I have another quest related to the question that I just posed. It's a legal question. What are the -? We have a permit that we granted under certain conditions. They are coming in for an extension of that particular permit. Now what are the legalities of adding additional conditions on it? I mean, are we allowed to do that? Is it legal to do that? I mean, where do we stand on it? GALDONES:Mr. Yuen. YUEN:Well, I think it's certainly legal to add conditions that a the passage of time and changed conditions, yeah. KUBOTA:Excuse me, I meant over and beyond that. YUEN:Yeah. 19