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SIRACUSA: I know. I’m about to ask a question. I was prefacing it. What I’m asking is is there any possibility of putting in conditions saying that the landscaping has to be in place before anything can happen, before any of the other decisions or policies take place? DARROW: This would be a matter that the Planning Commission could put as a condition of the permit. WATANABE: Yeah. And maybe it would be more appropriate to discuss that a little further on in our proceedings, yeah? So do we have any further questions of staff? Because I have a number of people that would like to testify and get back to work, as I had mentioned earlier. No questions? Okay.Now regarding testifiers on this, I have Peter Lum and John Gapp signed up. So I could call both of these individuals up, please. SIRACUSA: We haven’t had the applicant yet. WATANABE: I understand that. As I stated earlier, yeah, we’re going to take testimony first cause these people have to go back to work. SIRACUSA: I’m sorry, I missed that. WATANABE: We also only received this so most of us haven’t had a chance to go through this yet. Okay, would you both raise your right hands, please. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: I do. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Would you like to start, sir? If you’d like to start, please state your name and address for the record. J. GAPP: My name is John Gapp. I have a shop couple lots away from Sumida’s, it’s a contractor’s warehouse; and we’re up for special permit renewal. We’re in the process of doing that right now. And we just received the application, or I guess it was a survey to poll the rd people on 33 Street. We had done a similar survey a year and a half ago and it came back with positive feedback from all the neighbors, all the lot owners. And so we’re optimistic that it’s going to move ahead. We’re also excited about paving the road.But I think it may be premature to pave the road until they decide on the future zoning designation, because they may want to put water underground and wouldn’t want to tear the road up to put water in after-the-fact. So I think it’s important to determine if it’s going to be future zoned and needs all the improvements, that we do everything in the right order. WATANABE: Okay. Anything else to add to that, Mr. Gapp? J. GAPP: I noticed that Carnor Sumida made the improvements on the corner going rd out from 33 Street to Makuu for the trucks to be able to make the radius there. I think the Planning Department or somebody had asked him to make some road improvements so that he could pull the trucks in and out; and those improvements have been completed. WATANABE: Okay. Do we have any questions for Mr. Gapp? No? Is that it then? EXHIBIT C 4