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ALAMEDA:All right. Thank you and welcome. By the way, did you get a chance to read all of the recommendations and -? TSUKAZAKI:Yes, I did. ALAMEDA:I also notice that youve added a few conditions or modified the conditions as well. Would you like to go over that with us? (ATTACHMENT I, on file) TSUKAZAKI:Yes. ALAMEDA:Okay. TSUKAZAKI:Now in talking with Mr. Gomes prior to the hearing starting, I understand thatstandardconditionsareusedbytheDepartmentofPublicWorksasjustthegeneralpractice with regard to change of zone applications. So Im mindful that, you know, there was not an intent to say with this specific project that all the requirements or improvements that are mentioned would necessarily be applicable. I understand that to be more standard language; and he can speak to that himself if he wishes. As to the new Condition E proposed by the Planning Director, we have no problem with that. So assuming that it is incorporated then the conditions that we had addressed would indicate the former designation, the Condition E. The previous Condition E was one of those conditions which contain standard language. And the discomfort that I have with it arises from other projects dealing with other agencies where the language is so broad that theres often subsequent disagreement with those agencies when it comes time to actually implement what is going to be designed, what is going to be built. So we offer that initial phrase there in order to address the potential impacts of the project, because we would understand that that would be the intent anyway, that the Department wouldnt be asking an applicant to make improvements which are unrelated to the impacts of the project. So we have added that phrase just to make that clear. Again, weve no problems with dealing with Mr. Gomes, but Im not sure if well be dealing with Mr. Gomes later or someone else. So the changes that we offer in that particular condition are consistent with the idea that Public Works will later on determine what type of improvements are related to the project; and thats what well be asked to do. Condition F, the previous Condition F, upon my conversation with Mr. Gomes before the hearing and talking with my client, we understand that the 20-foot corner radius is really related to an area to round out the corner of Kekuanaoa and Laukapu Street. Right now its a rectangle. And even if there is a dedication of a future road widening with a strip along Kekuanaoa without a corner radius, an area to round out that corner, it would be a rectangular corner; and we agree that that would not work. So Id like to withdraw the amendment that we had proposed there for the existing Condition F. The applicant, in other words, is willing to provide the area of the minimum 20-foot radius, changing the property line right at that corner. Condition H, again the previous Condition H relates back to the kind of improvements that are determined to be necessary based upon the traffic impact analysis report that was done and as agreed to by the Traffic Division of the Department of Public Works and, again, trying to provide some relationship between what is going to be done and the actual impacts of the 14EXHIBIT C