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conditions. It is always tempting to do that. I, on this one, I would recommend against it; and I would say to the Commission if youre not comfortable with rezoning this to some kind of, to just saying its a Commercial rezoning, dont rezone it. If they didnt have a particular proposal, all right, and it was Medium Density Urban and they just wanted CN zoning, I would favorably recommend it, based on this is the kind of site that this is within the town. It is on, as Ive talked about it, a busy street, its a logical place for a Commercial zone. We would have site specific conditions like the sidewalk, like the access from the side; and we would recommend in favor. So rather than put a condition on thats very site specific, I would not recommend it in this instance; and I would say lets just go ahead with the Commercial zoning. I think that the reality of whats going on here, I mean if I read their own minds for them, they dont have good visibility from Kekuanaoa right now, which is something that a business wants, and that for them to have some relatively open site line from Kekuanaoa is in their interest. But I would not, you know, I would not recommend us putting on a highly site specific condition to try tolimitthemtohavingalandscapedareaonKekuanaoaStreetinthisrezoning. ALAMEDA:CommissionerGraham,follow-up? GRAHAM:Yeah,Ithinkweretalkingaboutthesamethingbutmaybewerestarting from a little bit different place. Im not talking about site specific condition. My understanding is that park part is one specific parcel. So without any conditions is there not a more appropriate zoning designation for that parcel that provides that kind of open space for it, and guarantees that it will remain in something akin to that in the future? No condition, just ask to change the application to a different rezoning designation for that specific parcel. ALAMEDA:Mr. Director? YUEN:Open. GRAHAM:Okay. YUEN:Yeah, I mean, again Im not recommending it. I dont think that, I wouldnt recommend that as a zone. But just to give you a technical answer, Open, an open landscaped area can be done in an Open zone; and very little else, but, yes, you can do it in an Open zone. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Graham. GRAHAM:Then I guess I could pass that on to Mr. Tsukazaki since he has got all this background. ALAMEDA:Mr. Tsukazaki? TSUKAZAKI:Yes. Again, what the applicant proposed there was to have an aesthetic frontage to its project, okay, and to incorporate landscaping, to continue the landscaping that they have which is aesthetically pleasing in the frontage of the existing operation and to continue the landscaping theme around to Kekuanaoa. I also said and our application does say that its envisioned as a possible, you know, rest area for people who are buying products within the 24EXHIBIT C