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progress and all of that, the applicant is in violation or was acting in violation for I’m not sure how long but, you know, over a protracted period of time and went before the Board of Appeals and so forth. And this request, this change of zone application is being submitted in order to change the use so that it can be used for a parking lot. Part of my concern, you know, is that the applicant has a business building with parking that it believed was sufficient and now it’s apparent that it’s not and is, you know, basically anxious about obviously getting this thing through to try and rectify that. But that’s a creation of a problem by the applicant, poor planning, excuse me. All right, you have so much office space and expecting so many patients and so forth and you don’t provide enough parking, that’s not technically our problem, you know. And we’re being asked to make a recommendation on this application in order to help the applicant rectify it. Part of my concern is why don’t you just build a parking structure? You know, why can’t you resolve the problem on site and why do you have to go off site? Those are the kinds of concerns that I have and to me speak against the applicant’s argument that we really need to get this through because this is the only thing we have to do. GRAHAM: All right, thank you. Any other Commissioners care to comment? Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There are a number of, there are several options that we can take. We can move this up immediately today and forward this to the Council without any recommendation from this Commission, we can take action immediately today, or we can defer this matter until a future meeting. In my other life as a Council Member, I had also heard the arguments of issues surrounding this particular development in the past by members and residents of the particular area. What I’m looking at now, I think the overriding issue is that, for one thing positively, is that parking lot will be allocated only for those employees who work in that area. So that would mean that traffic only would occur, so-call traffic, would occur in the morning when they come up and pull up into the stalls; and the other issue is that when they leave they’ll leave probably in the afternoon, probably 4:30, 5 o’clock and that would then again create a number of traffic. And I think one of the overriding concern was that there’d be fumes by people coming in and out as they visit the doctors or whatever they do there. So it seems like there would be continuously coming in and going out of cars; therefore increasing the pollution that neighbors are so concerned about, which would not happen because it’s only in in the morning and out in the afternoon. And, you know, I think with the landscaping requirements that would be imposed on the developer, I think it would, I feel that it would negate the major concerns that people would face as I look at it. I don’t know, I might be wrong. But that’s how I look at it. And I think for me I can take a position now. I can just send it up to the Council and have the Council make that decision, or if we take a position today it will also be forwarded to the Council and they will make the final decision on this issue. What we’ll be doing is just sending a recommendation. So I, you know, I don’t know how an important a recommendation would be because often times when you sit on the Council the Council has, you know, in their wisdom overridden recommendations from the Commission. So I don’t think that it’s an issue that would die with us today; but it will be continued and then this issue would be addressed by the Council. So, you know, I have no strong feeling as to deferring this; and this is made in deference to my EXHIBIT C 6