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dwelling and not to, you know -. And I think if you’re going to have a full unit bed and breakfast, your impact is more than a single-family dwelling, and I think that that has to be considered. The roads are challenging to maintain. It’s over 100 inches of rain per year, about 120 inches of rain. So the roads are already challenging to maintain, so I don’t think that that can be ignored. I live on the end of a dead-end street currently with a bed and breakfast beyond me; and my observation is that bed and breakfast customers do not drive the same, with the same care and familiarities as residents. They’re unaware of where the puddles and the potholes, and the kids, and the pets, and all those things are; and they’re not familiar with driving in an area where there’s very high rainfall so that you have low impact on the roads. They’re not vested in the same way as residents are. I understand that since you’ll be living there that that does makes some difference. Just in closing, it’s just that it’s an area that’s zoned single-family residential, which is appropriate because there’s limitations to the roads and infrastructure, and the density of the residents in this area is increasing very rapidly, and the ultimate stresses on the area are still unknown. And I think that as planners, there’s some responsibility to the people who bought in a residential area to maintain that as a residential area and not allow things that will have an adverse impact on the neighborhood. So as a neighbor, a long-time Volcano resident, and an observer of subdivision impacts, I feel that the use permit is inappropriate and should be denied. FUJIKAWA:Any questions, Commissioners, to the testifier? Graham? GRAHAM:Just a quick one, Tamar. Since I’ve never been there, what’s the sort of settlement density now? Is it like one developed lot for every three, or roughly -? ELIAS:Well, as maybe Melanie mentioned, it was eight developed lots above her street. BOUDAR:On our block, there are 26 lots and 8 are not developed. ELIAS:But there are many areas of the subdivision where there may only be one or two developments in an entire block, currently, so that density will go up. I guess my only other thing that I forgot to mention was only just a question about the process and how this happens.And since I didn’t get a letter, just sort of -. The building is already being built, it’s well, well along the way to being built. And I don’t really understand how it is that you can design and plan for a business without getting the 10