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not see a big need to shave this down to this point in the General Plan. I see the point about not liking the Ag-1 zoning. ALAMEDA:Follow-up, Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Well, your comments sound reasonable to me. I just wondered, Mr. Hunter, does that sound like were on an okay course? Are you sort of satisfied or -? HUNTER:Yes. We would be. The letter specifically focuses on zoning and were here just because we thought you had to do a General Plan change before you did a zone change. But if Chris says we dont, thats fine. GRAHAM:Okay, good. ALAMEDA:Otherquestionsonthisparticularitem,orforourtestifier,orforour Director? Seeing none, thank you very much for your presentation. We appreciate that. We have another testifier. Final testifier for this particular agenda item, Bob Ely, or Eli. ELY:Ely. ALAMEDA:Ely, okay. I believe I already swore you in; and we do have your name and address already. Again? TORIGOE:Thats fine. ALAMEDA:Okay. You may proceed with your testimony? ELY:All right. We were here this morning, we, Orchidland Community Association, for another matter. And several of us picked this General Amendments up and looked at it, and said to ourselves -- What? We were not aware of the extent of this change from Rural to Medium Density Urban. We had been informed before that something like this was in the offering; and it was described to us verbally, or in writing, but without a graphic as a change thth along of Orchidland Drive between 35 and 36. We responded to the Planning Department with a letter saying that we suspect that this is a typographical error, that what you really mean is thththth between 34 and 35 because there are existing houses between 35 and 36 and there are thth already some special use permits granted between 34 and 35. I dont believe the Planning Department ever said yes, no, or maybe to our comments. But I would like to emphasize that this does comes as a surprise to us to see in this more detailed thth map that this change not only still goes between 35 and 36 but it also now goes down some of th thesideroads,35Avenuespecifically.ThosesideroadsaresomethingthatOrchidlandhasto maintain. There are existing houses that will now be surrounded by this change from Rural to MediumDensity.Andmyownfeelingisthatitssortofunfairtoretroactivelygoandchange the zoning on somebody, particularly somebody that has built a house within the last few months.Thischangewillfacilitatetheprocessofgettingspecialusepermitsforcommercial activities next to residential houses. Bear in mind that Orchidland was formed in the 1950s. We havenocommonareasforthedevelopmentofcommercialactivitiesasAinaloaorHawaiian Paradise Park do, we have none. We have no covenants and codes and restrictions. We have 19EXHIBIT C