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might provide the opportunity, when the County, you and the Public Works Department can really look at how are we going to deal with this upstream waterway as it goes through this neighborhood. You know, that might be the time cause these house obviously were built way before there was, you know, real understanding about where the stream-ways were versus the fringes. So, I just would like to speak in favor of allowing this quality project to go forward. Thank you. SPRINGER:Thank you. Commissioners, are there any questions of the testifier? Seeing none, thank you all for testifying before us this morning. Id like to invite now the Applicants representative toreturn to the table. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Springer, I have a question. I was just wondering whenwould it be appropriate for me to make public for the record Public Works documents we dont have in front of us. SPRINGER:What Id like to offer is the opportunity for the Applicants representativetorespondiftheycaredtoanyofthecommentsthatweremadein testimony and then when we go into discussion that would be the appropriate time. ALAMEDA:Okay. Thank you. SPRINGER:Youre welcome. Mr. Moore, do you have any response to make, given the testimonies weve heard. MOORE:More in context. You know, again, we talked about the Base Flood Elevations, which is theoretical. The flooding is not. We understand that. And there is a problem there, it is not caused by the Applicant; and, again, weve looked at that. Again, the flooding is there, it will be there and it will continue to be there in the future until, you know, either major changes are made or -. You know, it was just, the people have built in places thats a wonderful neighborhood; but it is in a flood zone or floodway, and theres not a lot that we can do with that. What we can look at is do we impact it in terms of the regulations, and we dont; can we take care of the drainage situation, and we believe we have. We believe that weve come up a process of, makes it a little better, not a whole lot. Cause if were in a bad situation, but it doesnt add to it, and thats really the standard here that weve been held to. And we believe that Public Works has done a, done its responsibility in making us go through all of the necessary hoops. There is another requirement that we need to comply with all of the regulations, which ties us into the FEMA regulations, as well as the grading permits and everything else, which is what Yen has been looking at. You know, with that, I think the Applicant is sensitive to the neighborhood and we need to know that. You know, were going to be there a long time, theyre going to be there a long time. You know, we are willing to talk to them. We believe that that is an appropriate way do it, you know, just us and them talking. You know, they have certain 20