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Thank you. <br />SPRINGER:You€re welcome. Commissioners, any questions for the testifier? <br />Commissioner Alameda? <br />ALAMEDA:I have two questions. So you live or you own property next to the <br />church? <br />SERAFIN:Both. <br />ALAMEDA:Oh, both. Okay. Thank you. <br />SERAFIN:It€s my house. One of my house, in fact, I mentioned on Page 5 of <br />the Commission€s Report -. See, we are one of the several properties near the church in <br />CymbidiumAcres. <br />SPRINGER:IwouldjusthaveaquestionofthePlanningDirectorregardingthe <br />testifier€s concerns regarding hours of operation and sound levels. How do we, how does <br />the Department make recommendations on these subject areas of churches in residential <br />areas? <br />YUEN:I€d like to wait till the end of the testimony to make specific <br />comments on the questions. But, generally, the general question was sound levels and <br />hours of operation. Maybe Mr. Hayashi can help me with this. I don€t think that we€ve <br />typically put hours of operation on Use Permits or Special Permits for churches, or <br />special sound conditions, though, right? <br />HAYASHI:As far as the hours of operation, we haven€t done that. Regarding <br />sound, we also haven€t included any kind of conditions for churches. <br />YUEN:Not typically. You€ll see another application for, where we do <br />have a sound condition, but that€s for a cabinet shop. You know, just generally on <br />measuring sound levels, it€s a little tough on intermittent sounds. If you have a, and I <br />have a sound meter that I use from time-to-time. And what happens is that if you€re, say, <br />if you were measuring the sound of my voice now, you would get, and it€s numerical, <br />you would get the number which spike up and then drop, and spike up and drop. And <br />I€m not sure how that€s handled when, in the regulations which talk about 55 DBA, for <br />example, what the gentleman spoke of at 50 DBA -. There€s a, Department of Health has <br />sound regulations; and the standard in a residential neighborhood for daytime is this 55 <br />DBA, which is 55 decibels. It€s not a very loud, 55 is not a very loud sound. In an <br />agricultural area, though, unfortunately, the level, the allowed level by the Department of <br />Health is very high, it€s 70 DBA, which is quite loud. So, we, in the other application <br />you€ll see we€re recommending the residential level at the property line. But as far as <br />this specific request, let me wait till the end of the, all the testimony and then I€ll make <br />some comment if you have, still have a question then. <br />14 <br /> <br />