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roadway, you know, the shoulder, some of which is pavement, some of which is gravel, yes, theres ponding; and there are a couple of holes as you move makai up the street. And I think as someone may have pointed out, its all within the County right-of-way. I wanted you to have a visual idea of what were talking about here because I think, you know, Mr.Yuen, you know, was bringing some reality to it. And I wanted to bring a little more to it, that while the Commission wants to be sensitive to what neighbors comments are, you know, its not always that the allegations made in a written form really portray a very accurate picture of thing. In our response to her letter, which we have filed with you and you may have had a chance to read that, or maybe not, what we were trying to say there is that its wear and tear, I would call this wear and tear, or just, you know, a need for periodic road maintenance, just like all of the public streets we have here. We have a lot of rain, the rain causes erosion and we have similar situations to what exists in front of her property. But we strongly take exception to the allegation that the traffic from Big Island Candies operation itself is the cause of any deteriorationhereoftheshoulderinfrontofherproperty.Shehashadherselftrailersmoving canoes, those all have an impact on your shoulders. And, again, you know, these photographs do not reflect any serious impairment of the roadway pavement itself. So were not talking about a safety hazard created on the roadway portion of the street itself. I do not, Im sorry I need to add one other thing, you know, because she did, Ms. Weeks did make a complaint to Big Island Candies regarding late night traffic. And as I indicated in our comments there was a change made and the trash pick-up is not using the access on her side; and that has, you know, been the case for quite some time. The cleaning thats done at night, were talking six people. Were talking some regular vehicles, not big large trucks. So its, you know, its a low intensity type of cleaning operation. Noise, I dont think she has really alleged or expressed the concern about noise from the production process. But as many of you may know the process in there is making chocolate, and making the candy out of the chocolate. Its not a heavy industrial operation. And I would note that she had not made any allegations of noise from the production activities at all. So evidently thats not a problem. Oh, there was a question regarding the future use of property, thats kind of towards the east, yeah, of the existing retail production center. That is going to be a future parking area for employees and/or whatever. So it has been graded. Initially quite a while ago this production facility had been considered to be located there; but the amount of infrastructure work and design and change to the existing building makes it cost prohibitive. So its not being located there at this point. ALAMEDA:Okay. All right, thank you. TSUKAZAKI:Any other questions? ALAMEDA:Well, I wanted to go back to Condition H, just to make sure that we address kind of your question first and then open it up for Commissioners if they have other additional questions. Would you like to help me revisit that Condition H on your part? 17EXHIBIT C