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GALDONES:Okay. Commissioners are there any questions of Mr. Lim or the applicants? Mr. Lim? LIM:Sir, if I could- I know that there was one request from the Planning Department Staff if I could try to in one sentence describe what a Wellness Center is. We submitted a very detailed description of what the activities would be on the proposed activities by Dr. Patrick and Mr. Patrick but in one sentence Illtryto do this. Ive read this to them, they thought that adequately described it but. A Wellness Center is a timeout place where individual psychotherapeutic and physical therapy techniques can be applied within a quiet agrarian environment that fosters the healing process. In one sentence. Essentially what, what you see are 2 very experienced individuals. They will be making their home at this subject property; its a one-acre site and approximately 1/3 of it will be used for the healing activities. Theyve been doing this for many years. Both are very accomplished both in psychotherapy and physical therapyandthemartialarts,allofwhichgetsplayedintotheirtreatmenttechniques.For instance Mr. Patrick is well known in terms of his physical therapy treatment for children and he will be utilizing 1 or 2 miniature horses. Theyre about 30-inches high and 3 feet long, something like that. PATRICK, MR.:Like a big dog. LIM:Yeah and probably smaller than my dog but. For an example that they gave me one of the exercises rather than submitting the patients to the boring repetition that you have to do with weights and things like that. Hell take someone that has trouble with grasping motions and the technique that he would use is to have them grasp a carrot and put it over and feed the horse and to do that in a controlled method and he will be guiding them. And thats the type of therapy that they espouse, which is a little bit out of the standard physical therapy office. You know utilizing that type of technique and also Dr. Patrick will be using things like sand play and if you need to know what that is I think she described it a little bit in the submittal. But these are non- these are I would say not your mainstream type treatment techniques, which have been working very well for them. Our request on the condition was an amendment to condition number 5, which is the hours of operation and the limitation on participants. The hours of operation are as represented in our application are fine and only with respect to that last sentence which addresses the workshops of 1 weekend per month limited to 5 participants. We would request that that number of participants be increased to 6. The reason for that is that most of these treatment modalities will be done either in pairs or in trios. So to have the 5 was awkward. So theyll be using, usually theyll go individual or pairs or trios so 6 would be the request that we would ask of the Planning Commission. But other than that the other conditions that have been suggested by the Director are acceptable to the Applicant. GALDONES:Thank you. Commissioners any questions? Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Well this isnt exactly a question. Under your gardening projects, animal husbandry. Ive had experience with all of these animals and I would strongly recommend that you delete goat because they can get, you might end up with a liability problem. Even females very often get into butting. And maybe substitute rabbits instead. EXHIBIT D 4