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DOMINGO: Aye. DARROW: Commissioner Ogata? OGATA: Aye. DARROW: Commissioner Rho? RHO: No. DARROW: Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA: No. DARROW: Commissioner Woodward? WOODWARD: Aye. DARROW: And Mr. Chairman? WATANABE: Aye. DARROW: The motion does not pass, four to two. WATANABE: Do we have any suggestions for another motion with possibly different conditions? Earlier you made some comments, Ms. Siracusa, of landscaping. RHO: Mr. Chairman? WATANABE: Yes. RHO: Can I just share that it’s very difficult for me personally to vote for any motion on this applicant’s special permit until I get assured that the applicant will actually comply. I didn’t get that from the answer he gave me. I’m sure you were all listening to the question, or my whole spiel about it, and then my final question to him, which was basically, “are you going to really comply?” I didn’t ask him that specifically, but I wanted some response from the applicant he could assure me that they were really going to comply this time. Remember, the Commission approved this special permit after the fact, he was already violating. The Commission not just ignored, the Commission debated the traffic issue. I’m not doubting that. I’m not doubting the competence of the Commissioners at that time. But they leaned over backwards to approve this special permit in terms of the traffic. The driveway issue and its connection to the State Highway, no progress, nothing done. Don’t understand it? Maybe. He gets called in here to revoke the permit. We leaned over backwards, I was part of that. We leaned over backwards and extended it, or whatever we did. We didn’t take action. I don’t know how many months have passed since that time and we’re back again on this same issue. And he did submit in that timeframe of, lets say, four months, I’m guessing, the plan and the EXHIBIT A 25