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SPRINGER:Before I call on you, Commissioner Siracusa, if I understood the Planning Director correctly, at Plan Approval time the parking formula would be addressed on the number of congregants and the number of parking stalls required. And should this matter of parking on the shoulder be taken up at that time or should we amend Condition 4 to include to address it? YUEN:Well, we could put a condition on no parking because -. You are allowed to park on the side of the road right now, the public road. So, its a little difficult to, if it became a regular thing then we could enforce it. I think you have to take some degree of common sense on this. And if they have a funeral of a popular member of the church and they have a lot of people there, there may not be enough parking; and, I wouldnt revoke their permit for it, lets put it that way. But if it turned out that they didnt have enough parking spaces, using the formula, then, we would like them to make enoughparkingsothattheydontregularlyparkalongsidetheroad. SPRINGER:Thisisjustfollow-uponthat.Theroadsideconditions,shoulder conditions in Volcano may be very different off of Wright Road than off of Volcano Highway, for example, where theres a graveled shoulder. How do we, how does the Planning Department take those differing conditions into consideration? YUEN:Were operating under the, on this application, were operating on the assumption that the formula for how many parking spaces they should have is enough for the normal use of the church. And its not, I can tell you that, knowing Wright Road, its not ideal, would not be ideal for people, for that to be a normal thing, that people had to park along the side of the road. We wouldnt want that to happen. I dont know that weve had -. When Ive looked at churches that have been done with Special Permits or Use Permits it always seem to me that theres quite a bit of parking, ends up the result. I couldnt tell you how many spaces this church per how many square feet would be required. We could find that in the Zoning Code for you; but I recall it being generally, it ends up looking like they have a pretty big parking lot on these churches. SPRINGER:Okay. Again, before I go to Commissioner Siracusa, I want to make sure that on Condition 4, should we then add the word only to follow Wright Road, the driveway connection to Wright Road only? Would that satisfy the concerns brought up in discussion? HAYASHI:Well, I think we should just add something to the effect that driveway to the proposed, Driveway access to the proposed development shall be limited to Wright Road only. SPRINGER:Okay. Thank you, Norman. Thank you for waiting, Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA:Thank you. The testifier indicated that he felt that a lot of people would park on the side of the road because it was easier. Its always been my observation 11