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saturated, the water is just going to be flowing. So what were doing is actually creating a bigger area through this tolet saturation to occur by ponding it outside the wall and letting it seep around, if theres an overflow. And that would occur in a high flood; and this beyond a 10-year flood situation in a major rainstorm. SPRINGER:Commissioner Graham, any follow-up? GRAHAM:Im not sure I want to dominate the microphone on this issue in any way. The only general thrust that bothers me a little bit is it feels like all this is good preparation what youre doing but its sort of like -. I always want to kind of cut to the chase and then walk back to the specifics, rather than just walk back to the details, rather than just do with all the details. But since we are talking about extending the zoning that was granted years ago which failed to follow through on its time commitments -. And you mentioned that were probably not dealing with, you didnt feel we should be dealing withthegeneralissueofthosethings,itsappropriate,andIgenerallyconcurwiththat. And if theyre really different as Tsukazaki said, suggested the last time, we should notify you guys so that you can present it that way. But it does seem like one of the issues from our site visit that might come up to me as to what would be in our power, or would be a responsible action by us if it were helpful, was that whole road area, where it looks like the culvert flows into right now, is proposed to be filled. So that kind of no longer serves as a seeping ground for water that would land in there in relatively normal flooding times. So it seems to me one thing we could do is to suggest or to ask that that area not be filled thats presently used as sort of an absorption area. I dont know whether thats going to help in a considerable way or no way at all, but it doesnt feel like weve addressed that yet. So since thats something that came up in my mind on the site visit I feel like, you know, lets talk about that, because that is in the realm of things that we might consider doing at this point. Thats all I have to say at the moment. SPRINGER:Mr. Moore, before you answer, Id like to ask of either the Director or Corporation Counsel, we have a specifically worded agenda. It sounds as though Commissioner Graham is discussing an additional condition or an amendment to an existing condition. And is that discussion proper at this time? YUEN:Well, I think, weve discussed that issue. Im not sure whether it comes to the point of whether, by adding conditions, Im just not sure whether we ought to add conditions to a time extension. I suppose we could add conditions to a time extension. SPRINGER:Mr. Torigoe? TORIGOE:Thank you, Mr. Director. The only thing I would add is that looking at what the County Code seems to indicate about how changes or alterations of conditions is handled, it says that they should be processed in the same manner as a zone change, which would imply that we have the ability to, you know, tinker with the conditions if thats appropriate. 12