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HAYASHI:I dont quite understand the possible relief. What do you mean by possible relief? SPRINGER:For her, in her correspondence shes talking about having large potholes and depressions in front the property generated from traffic from Big Island Candies and their, among other things, the trash pick-up, the heavy trucks associated with that. So Im wondering if while were asking Big Island Candies to make certain improvements to their frontage, Im wondering about any properties across the street from them that may have been affected by traffic to their property. HAYASHI:I think that question would be better directed to the applicant. However -. SPRINGER:Well, Im wondering how the County, if the County took that into considerationwhentheyweredevelopingtheoldConditionE.ImwonderinghowtheCounty would process a comment like that from a resident describing impacts from the business activities of Big Island Candies. So this is a question as to how the County processes that sort of complaint and if theres any possible relief for the complainant from the County. ALAMEDA:Thats a fair question, Commissioner Springer. Thank you for that. I wonder if Mr. Director or Norman would you like to answer that? YUEN:On the sidewalks and the frontage, a standard condition for commercial zoning would involve putting in sidewalks on your frontage, the notion being that a commercial area should have a sidewalk. The complaints about, I have to say that I dont have a solution for the homeowner, that some of this is generic with having a commercial, busy commercial facility across from your home. And it is a decision that was, its a weighing process in whether to rezone something like this. I think that her primary impact is from the zoning that was done, you know, back in 97 or 98 which allowed the facility in the first place. Im sure that it did increase the number of people using both Laukapu and Hinano Streets and there are impacts to people in the neighborhood from that. And I dont have a real solution for the neighbor. It sounds like the maintenance of the road itself is a public road, so its really up to the County to maintain the road. There are badly maintained County roads that are not used by commercial facilities as well, so I dont know that Laukapu Street would be worse if Big Island Candies werent there. And there are downsides to the immediate, to people living in an immediate area from having a commercial facility next to it. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Springer, follow-up? SPRINGER:I wonder if the Planning Department in any way can influence Department of Public Works in placing any sort of priority on doing repairs, if not increasing regular maintenance, in the event where there are residential units across from High Density Urban zoned or Commercial properties? YUEN:I wouldnt want to make that commitment that we really can do anything on the Planning Department about that. 11EXHIBIT C