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an Industrial area? I don’t think you can have, you know, a designated Industrial area every three or four miles. Ms. Siracusa. SIRACUSA: I’m thinking about all of those vacant lots on that street who I’m sure some of those are absentee landowners. And they may not even be aware that there are already these industrial uses on the block, and yet I know there are lots of people out there who hold on to parcels for a long time waiting until things change in their lives on the mainland and they can move over here and build their retirement home. And so I think that the first indication that some of them will get about this, all of this, is when they receive the survey letter. And I would feel a lot more comfortable about approving this, albeit with conditions, if I knew that the lot owners said that’s okay, you know. Because they have their investments, they’ve been paying property taxes on those lots for all those years, and I think they should be allowed to weigh in on it. So my feeling right now would be I would feel a lot more comfortable instead of approving this motion would be to say let’s continue this, let’s get a chance to get the responses, and then come back and look at it, because then we’ll have, one way or the other, we’ll have a public mandate. WATANABE: Ms. Bowman, you want to respond to that? BOWMAN: I just have a question. The applicant is required to notify surrounding -? WATANABE: Yes, for 500 feet. BOWMAN: Five hundred feet, okay, thank you. WATANABE: But the survey that Mr. Yuen is speaking of encompasses the entire road, I believe. Yeah, Mr. Yuen? YUEN: Right. They have to notify within 500 feet which I just counted up as 15 nd lots owners, including -. Some of the lots would be on 32 actually within the 500-foot radius. rd We’re writing to all the lot owners on 33, which is 46 lots. I think it’s not 46 owners but it’s 46 lots. BOWMAN: I just think that, you know, this one applicant is kind of, you know, between a rock and a hard place because of this, you know, waiting to hear back. My initial question was, I know in the background it said that the Director should send a letter to the people; and I don’t know when you talked about doing that. Because it just seems like, you know, one was sent just a couple days ago before this came up. WATANABE: Yeah, that was going to be my point. Because while I think having all of the information is always nice, the fact is his lease expires I believe it was in October or somewhere thereabouts, and when Shipman signs him to another lease they’re not going to sign into a six-month lease or one year lease. They’re going to ask for a longer term, so then he’s committed again. BOWMAN: I understand. But I think my question was referring to page 3, it said that rd the Planning Director will make an effort to contact the owners of these 46 lots along 33 Avenue to get their input. And my question is when was that proposed? EXHIBIT C 23