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additional farm dwellings. Additionally, aquestion is whether or not this area can be subdivided. Currently the parcel is zoned Ag-5. If the Applicants were able to meet the Subdivision Code in regards to subdivision it appears that they may be able to subdivide the property in the future. The conservation agricultural easement will be associated with the property that is connected to the special permit. The Planning Director is recommending that the Planning Commission approve this request. Are there any questions? ALAMEDA:Commissioners? Commissioner Graham. GRAHAM:I have a couple of questions about the conditions you were just referring to, Jeff. One is like the shuttle van, and we have Condition 6 that say shall utilize a shuttle van to assist and bring in guests, and shall refer to the availability of the shuttle van service within advertising.Imjustkindofquestioninglikehowisthisgoingtoturnoutovertheyearsinreal life so maybe the average person who comes to the retreat facility may, lets say maybe they fly in from Oahu, theyre going to rent a car and theyll probably spend a couple of days running around the island, and theyll go spend five days up at the retreat facility or something. So its certainly a lot easier for them just to drive their car up, I guess. So Im just, you know, Im just kind of skeptical of putting in something that paper-wise sounds nice to us like were trying to really address the problems of the roads; but, in effect, its just sort of, you know, a nice gesture and maybe it becomes a bit of a humbug for them in some way. Anyway I have a concern about that and Im sure you guys have thought about it. And do you have any considerations that you can let me know about how you think this might, in fact, truly prove useful? DARROW:If I can just, in the beginning when we were looking at this, we were considering requiring the Applicant to just bring up the guests within the shuttle van service; but thats very difficult to monitor. And, obviously, as you were mentioning its very, most of these people will probably be utilizing this facility as part of a larger vacation or something and might already have a rental car at that point. So it would be futile to try to enforce that type of condition. Instead, the Planning Director recommended that the Applicants do purchase a shuttle van or utilize a shuttle van service and that they offer it within their advertising so at least that option is available. If there are large groups that are coming up, this shuttle van service can be utilized to bring up large groups of people, rather than having several cars come up at that time. Its just a means of trying to somehow deal with the problem in a small manner. GRAHAM:Thank you. And one other question is on the maintenance of the portion of the road, maybe the Planning Director is better to address this. But the fact that the Applicant maybe agrees when he takes this permit, if he gets this permit, to maintain that portion of the road, Im thinking of kind of a legal sense if some visitor has some problem on that road or something and a legal issues arises even though the Applicant has said hes going to maintain the road, Im sure the County could easily be a party in the litigation as well. And I dont know, I guess what Im really asking that be, concise is more like how much legal responsibility does this remove from the County? YUEN:Well, it probably doesnt remove a lot of legal responsibility. Its an area of road that although its probably a public road, this section -. I believe the only home, the only dwelling is this property owners dwelling, so we think its a reasonable condition to make them 3EXHIBIT D