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GRAHAM: Along with the conditions suggested by the Planning Director in his recommendation? WATANABE: Exactly. GRAHAM: Do we have a second? DOMINGO: Second. GRAHAM: Okay, moved by Commissioner Watanabe, seconded by Commissioner Domingo. Do we have discussion from the Commissioners? Commissioner -? DOMINGO: One question, Mr. Chairman. With regards to that buffer that we’ve spoken of, I’d like to have it clear in my mind that it will be used to prevent noise or fumes and even trespassing onto other neighboring properties, regardless of what the Department or the Commission is referring to about the buffering. You know, as long as it would prevent the noise and fumes and trespassing of other individuals onto the properties is what I’m concerned about. GRAHAM: Do the conditions as they’re written address your concerns properly? DOMINGO: It would address that but I just want to make it clear that, and if so seconding it, I’m of the understanding that these issues will be addressed. GRAHAM: All right, thank you. Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think everyone can see from my earlier questions that I really have difficulty with this change of zone, and it’s a change to a Commercial Neighborhood zoning, which would allow for multiple, lots of uses. But then where it’s being done for a specific purpose and it’s to provide parking and we’re creating all these conditions to make a 20-car parking lot, one that is supposed to allow 20 out of 32 employees that now park off-site, you know, “on-site parking.” And my difficulty with what we’re doing is that in my mind, you can agree or not, but in my mind, you know, this is just a small little wart, if you will, about what’s wrong with our process. And our process is wrong because when this project was approved many years go, you know, all the parking stalls as the applicant represents, right, were in compliance with but was required by the law. And I think all of us from our own personal experience can say that in almost every case, except for maybe early smaller kind of commercial developments, that they’re never enough, a lot of times, sometimes it works. And for us to have to deal with this now in this manner basically, you know, it’s a haphazard process. This is not planning in my mind. This is we’ll just see how it works out and we’ll do what we need to fix it. And that’s not the applicant’s fault. The applicant is not, you know -. And part of my concern is this, is that as this drawing that I was questioning the applicant about, when this was done on the original application to do the rezoning of this property and get it approved to be commercial and medical, this lot that we’re now talking about making a parking lot was part of the plan and it was, and what was designated was basically an access, part of an access to this project. Right? And if in fact it had happened that way, where would the applicant EXHIBIT C 24