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photographs, and I believe Ive sent some to the Commission and the Planning Department, which gives certain views of the properties in question. SIRACUSA:Yes, and I believe that we have those. SCHNEIDER:Yes. SIRACUSA:So, do you feel that the viewplane issue is one of the ways in which you have a special interest in this? SCHNEIDER:I certainly do feel that way. SIRACUSA:I mean, in your, that your interest differs from that of the general public? SCHNEIDER:Exactly. SIRACUSA:Okay. Thank you. SPRINGER:Commissioner Graham, and then Iwashita. GRAHAM:Mr. Schneider, I just want to kind of broach a subject in a sense of being helpful and not representative of the Planning Commission or anything like that. But Im just thinking like probably your motivation is you dont like this proposal and so youd like to see it turned down by the Commission. And my, the direction Im thinking in is like is the Contested Case Hearing process a worthwhile vehicle for you to undertake towards that objective; and, Mr. Torigoe, Im sure could give you the, little details about what might be advantageous to you. But, essentially, it is a lot of extra work for you and for the Applicant, not too much extra work for us cause generally we have a Hearings Officer hear it and then it comes back to us for final decision. And so, to me, whether its objectionable or not, this is a relatively straight-forward kind of application so that the whole process of, you know, cross examining witnesses, and long testimonies and things like that that can take place in Contested Case Hearings might be, you know, less applicable to this particular application. So Im just sort of bringing all this up in the sense of like I dont know if you thought in depth or not about whether it is really worth it to you to do a Contested Case Hearing, because it may or may not be, you know, highly advantageous to you to do it. I dont know the answers to those. But I just wanted kind of broach the subject to get you thinking about it. And if you wanted to ask the Corporation Counsel, or I could ask him about what are your advantages, you know, legally or procedurally with us, we can certainly do that. But I just wanted to bring that forward as something that occurred to me, so I wanted to bring it to you. SCHNEIDER:Well, I have given it quite a bit of thought, as a matter of fact. Ive been concerned ever since 1998 with the building of four large 100-foot long, 30-foot wide buildings on a single acre in Paradise Park when, generally, we have a single-family residence. We all know that its zoned agriculture and we all know that approximately 7