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parking, and people do have to access their medical providers. So at this point in time for this particular change of zone application I am willing to support it. However, I really would like to see as much mitigation of the neighborhood concerns as we possibly can do. On Condition C the middle of Condition C where it starts talking about landscaping, it says, “Landscaping shall also be indicated on the plans for the purpose of mitigating any adverse noise or visual impacts to adjacent properties,” I would like to insert one word after “noise,” and then the word “odor” because there are fumes generated by vehicles. So what we want to do is also try to mitigate the smell from the carbon monoxide. And so I would feel a lot happier with that condition if we inserted that one word. Would that be acceptable to the maker of the motion and the seconder? GRAHAM: Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE: I don’t have any particular objections to that. I’m just wondering if is it possible with the type of, you know, with Rule 17 in place is it possible or -? We may be splitting hairs here. It may be very difficult to determine to what extent we’re trying to eliminate odor. SIRACUSA: May I respond? WATANABE: Sure. GRAHAM: Yes, go ahead, Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA: We’re not talking about eliminating totally because we don’t have a yardstick for that. Mitigating means at least make some positive steps towards addressing it. So if we put in, for example, you know, a solid wall or if they put in a really thick planting of say areca palms and some other things that are thick, it would absorb a lot of that. One of the things that vegetation does is absorb odor. And some plants absorb it better than others. GRAHAM: Is that all right with you, Mr. Yuen, to include that? YUEN: I don’t have a problem with including that in the condition. GRAHAM: Thank you. So the Director says he has no problem with including it. WATANABE: Okay, then I’ll accept that as a friendly amendment then. GRAHAM: All right. And the seconder accepts that also? DOMINGO: Yes, Mr. Chairman. I think I alluded to that fact when I, in my discussion with regards to the Planning Department and the Applicant sitting down together as they discuss an approach to establishing some kind of barrier. I have no problem with that at all. But I’d just like to ask a question of the Director or Corp. Counsel. This particular application for a parking lot, we’re extending to them Commercial zoning. Now within that zoning there are varied uses which an applicant is able to conduct. Would it be possible in the future they can change their mind and do something else since they already have the zoning? EXHIBIT C 26