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is right about one of these over here. Okay? There is also Pahoa Auto Parts right over here; and that also contains an automotive repair place. WATANABE: Okay. May I interrupt you, Ms. Siracusa? SIRACUSA: Pardon me? WATANABE: May I interrupt you. For clarification the verbiage you read was from the Community Development Plan? SIRACUSA: Yes, it was. WATANABE: And it didn’t describe those areas that you’re pointing out now in the green area? It didn’t -? I don’t need to see it. SIRACUSA: Okay. WATANABE: The verbiage you’re reading from did not describe -? SIRACUSA: No, no. It doesn’t refer to those other uses that are in that area. WATANABE: Uh huh. SIRACUSA: Okay? As a matter of fact it says that the northern portion straddling Highway 130 at the intersection with the Bypass Road is intended for regional uses and services, e.g., areas already zoned for commercial and light industrial uses. And I’m pointing out what those uses are right now. There is Sanford Center. There is the Woodland Center which is right, in the pink over there. Then this is Pahoa Auto Parts, and there’s an automotive repair place. Sanford Cinders is over here. And then there’s the, when I was on the Commission we approved a storage facility that was over here. So this map is not accurate in terms of the uses that are currently happening over there. And what I’m saying is those are commercial and light industrial uses. I would like to also point out that what we’re talking about here is something that is most definitely an agricultural use. Certainly a feed and fertilizer store is very much an agricultural use. A certified kitchen that would help to convert agricultural products into value-added products is also a bonafide agricultural use because it supports agriculture. Let’s look at it this way, I’ll use my own example. I have a tangerine orchard. I raise tangerines, most of you have eaten them. I cannot do value-added products with my tangerines. Basically a couple of months a year my trees are in fruit, but I have to work the orchard all year round. The only way I could make a decent living out of it, and I can’t now, is if there were a certified kitchen where I could convert my tangerines into a product such as preserves, tangerine wine, or, you know, some other things made with tangerines that I would be able to sell year round, and therefore garner much more money per pound of tangerines. And that’s why they’re called value-added products. A value-added product is a way to help agriculture in our community become viable again, 1/ EXHIBIT B