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DARROW: I think it was a storage building; and, again, as you were mentioning, those are, if they’re applied for in an Agricultural district the standard procedure for the Planning Department is to sign off on it as an Ag storage building. YUEN: Yeah, as a storage building. So the reviewer in the Planning Department would look at it and see it as a storage building and say that that’s a permitted use and sign off on the building permit. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Yuen. DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman? GRAHAM: Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: Mr. Yuen, could you describe to us what in actuality is a plan approval? YUEN: It’s a site plan that includes the location of the buildings but also includes other things such as landscaping. It’s normally required of all commercial and industrial developments, multi-family developments. Most kinds of construction besides agricultural buildings and single family dwellings need a plan approval before getting a building permit. So if you were, say you had a lot in Shipman Business park and somebody wanted to put a warehouse on it, they would submit a plan approval that would show -. And this is separate from the Building Permit application, it’s a separate application. They would submit a plan approval that would show where the building goes, where the parking lots go, where the landscaping would be. And the Planning Department would check this because there are site requirements such as the landscaping on the site. DOMINGO: Okay. So in essence a plan approval is a plan encompassing the total development of that particular property to which the permit was granted? YUEN: Right. DOMINGO: Okay. So then because they have acquired a certain number of permits for whatever reasons does not indicate a plan approval was submitted legally or technically, is that right? YUEN: Right. They haven’t submitted a plan approval. It’s a separate application. It’s a point where the Department can check on the conditions, to see that the conditions of approval are met. Special Permits are in the Agricultural areas and normally agricultural buildings don’t need a plan approval. But when we have a special permit for something like this one, for example, it is like a Light Industrial use so we will typically put in a requirement for plan approval on a special permit like this, to be able to check that the things that are supposed to be done on a special permit are actually done. DOMINGO: Okay, thank you. You know as I look at this, Mr. Miranda, it seems like there has not been a follow through of all the requirements that you had to meet after the approval of the permit and, as you indicated, you were so busy and tied up in that and that there was no one else to follow up to meet these requirements. It’s too bad that it happened that way. EXHIBIT A 12