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WATANABE:Thank you. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:Follow-up for the Director. Would it be appropriate at this time to make some of these revisions, such as the 5400 square feet, you know, revising that from the 7200 square feet, and also possibly crafting an additional condition for the height limitation to the existing zoning to reflect 35 feet? YUEN: The height limitation whenever the Commission is ready to make a motion, that could be included as a new amendment, a new numbered condition. The square footage is not actually in the conditions or in the ordinance itself. It’s just their presenting a concept; and typically the applicants will have some kind of concept that they bring. But unless there are special conditions of zoning attached to the ordinance, the concept can change. And so, for example here, they presented a concept of a 7200-square foot building, that doesn’t mean that they can even get a 7200 -. I just pointed it out that it looked to me like the parking wasn’t going to work for that size of building. But I also have to mention to the Commission not to get, to always keep in mind that when you make a rezoning, particularly to a Commercial rezoning like this, you’re rezoning it; and unless you say you must build no more than 5,000 square feet, which has been done in special circumstances, that there’s a lot of things that can happen. They can make a multi-family building here, you know, they can make an apartment building. How many square feet we got on the site? FUKE:It’s roughly about 22,000 square feet. YUEN:You can make a 16-unit apartment building, for example, with the CN zoning, three-story walk-up apartment building. Example, you can make an office building. They’re presenting a building that will be divided into several bays. You can make a building that has only one tenant. WATANABE:So we should view this more as an entitlement issue than site specific as far as the proposed plan? YUEN:Right. Unless you’re going to put in special conditions of zoning that greatly limit the uses the Commission should always look at these as something that is being zoned to CN and the five years from now could result in a project that is quite different than what is being presented as a current concept. WATANABE:Thank you. ALAMEDA:Any other questions? Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA:I just wanted to address the comments made by Mr. Fuke about how the Community Development Plan works with the General Plan, and which is really the basis for my opposition, one of the basis; and that is the General Plan includes 15.1, Community Development Plan, as part of the plan implementation. And this is the law. It states a 6EXHIBIT A