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ALAMEDA:Okay. Is there anything else that needs to be dealt with before we move to the contested case? ELY:Well, I run the risk of being redundant because I think some of this will be presented at the contested case. But I would like to say that there is overwhelming opposition to this project. As of last week there were 25 letters in the file opposing this project and there was a petition with 49 signatures. Orchidland Community Association is also strongly opposed; and our objections have noting to do with religion but rather with controlling the growth in the development of our own community. I would like to elaborate a little bit on the notification issue, the deficiencies of the church. The th first notification, there was no first notification following the February 10 Planning Departments acceptance. The second notification, there was no second notification in the 10- day period from the hearing date being set and the church being notified. Signage, there was no sign posted. As of yesterday, there was no proof of mailing. Jeff did earlier this week alert the church that they were deficient in a number of these areas; and they rushed to try to correct some of them. For example, they went out and they put an 8 by 11 sheet of paper on the property for the signage. The application itself is really lacking. There are three buildings mentioned and the plot plans shows only one. Jeff told me this morning the church says this is a typographical error. There are no elevations required by the instruction. But the biggest issue is that the application says thattheyretalkingaboutacongregationof70people.InNovember,thechurchmadea presentation to the Orchidland Board of Directors; and at that time they said they were 150 people in the congregation. And a letter to the neighbors last year said there were 300 members. You know, we really cannot make a reasonable defense when we dont know what were dealing with here, whether this is a 70 or four times 70, 300 people. Im really a novice at this but it seems that just on the basis of this the application should be denied right now. But it probably wont be so let me go on with a couple of other things. The application states -. ALAMEDA:Excuse me, excuse me. Sorry, Mr. Ely. ELY:Yes? ALAMEDA:Real quick, I just want to check with our Corp. Counsel if were following proper protocol. Mr. Torigoe? TORIGOE:Well, I think at this point, again, the matter is going through a contested case hearing and so thats where you would want to present all your evidence. ELY:All right. ALAMEDA:Okay. Can I ask them to be seated and we can entertain testimony from the audience? TORIGOE:Yeah, well, I dont know if Mr. Upham has anything else relevant to the standing and to sending the matter to a contested case. 14EXHIBIT B