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Rule 17. There’s a rule, and it says follows the standards applicable to Light Industrial zones that abut Residential zones. That’s in the rules. It requires quite a bit of landscaping, and this would be around the one-acre area. You can use existing woodlands. If there are trees that provide a visual block you can use that. But essentially this rule requires a pretty strong, pretty thick planting that forms a visual buffer; and it’s spelled out in the rules how this is supposed to be done. Again, staff can point out the rule. But the plans have to show it; and then we will have somebody check to make sure that the landscaping has been implemented, that it has actually been planted. You can’t just show it on the plans. It has to, you know, the inspector will at some point come out and check to make sure it has been implemented. There will be fines. The fines are an enforcement matter and I don’t want to discuss the fines at the meeting today. We will discuss that separately. The Commission should not be involved in the level of fines. There have to be fines.My expectation is I’m not going to fine $500 a day from November till now, for example. But we would have fines. At the end of this, if all of this is complied with, my idea is that the Department would come back and make a report to the Commission. It would be put on the agenda as simply a report. Then we would say everything was done according to the requirements. And we would report back what the fine was and just what was done to comply. If it’s not done, then we would bring it back to the Commission to continue the revocation. Now we don’t want to have to do that. This is a matter that takes time for us as a Planning Department, for the Commission as well. And, you know, we understand the personal professional difficulties that led you to this point, but these things are the requirements of a permit, they do need to be done. As a Department we need to stay on top of the permits. So we need people that receive permits to take the conditions seriously and to implement the conditions when they’re done. And so that’s my recommendation of what to do today with this. IWASHITA: Mr. Chairman? GRAHAM: Let me ask Mr. Miranda a second. Do you have any comments, Mr. Miranda, on what you just heard from Mr. Yuen? MIRANDA: Yeah. I understand what Mr. Yuen just said; and I can comply with that. I’d like to know, well, I’ll talk to him on who I can work with to get this Rule 17, that is like how we can do that, you know. I never know there was something and it’s my ignorance not knowing Rule 17 and all the planting and everything; but we can work with that and whoever. If it’s Jeff or whoever we can get the information and work with, I’d be glad to. YUEN: Yeah, Mr. Darrow can help you with that. GRAHAM: Commissioner Iwashita, did you just have something? IWASHITA: Yes. You know, Mr. Miranda, I’ve been listening to all the comments, questions and your responses. And my main concern given what the Director has said, I just wanted you to clarify for me personally that you understand what the requirements are now that the Director just discussed it? EXHIBIT A 14