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GRAHAM:Yeah I had a little follow-up I think for Commissioner Siracusa when she spoke about the highway. And, I understood what Mr. Roland said a little bit differently than the way I think she took it. I think he was saying we have the County involved which is us and then theres the State Department of Transportation, and I think what he was saying is if we the County feel like its important there not be access to Highway 11 then we could put it in a condition like what we have here recommended. But what hes saying is if we as the County are not concerned about that where its only up to the State he would prefer that we dont put it in our conditions so that in the future whatever they may negotiate with the State doesnt become problematic because of some conditions we put in. Is that correct? ROLAND:Thats very correct. Thank you. GRAHAM:So I think thats the issue we have to feel- look at is, are there real concerns that we have so that we want to put in our own condition about Highway 11. SPRINGER:Thank you Commissioner Graham. Mr. Roland I think we left off at Page 4.Isthereanythingelseyoudliketodirectusto? ROLAND:WellIthinkyeahthatwasonIthinkpage3.Page4.ExcusemeIm sorry. Page 4 we get into at the very top a 10-foot planting screen easement abutting the highway along mauka side of the site. We dont really have much of a problem with that. We dont want to look at the highway anymore than the highway wants to look at us. But that is the one place on the property where we will have sweeping coastal (inaudible) and it doesnt exist anyplace else on the property and we want to be able to take advantage of that as well. YUEN:Im sorry I didnt hear what you just said. ROLAND:We would like to take advantage as well. YUEN:The sentence before that. ROLAND:We dont have any objection to a 10-foot screen along the highway but we would, were a little apprehensive about the commercial zoning requirements that would be required for landscaping because we want to really do a regional landscape that would be the development of whats appropriate in the woodland aspect and enhance that. And, the way the land is laid out and some of the pallings that are just beyond it actually mitigate a lot of the problems that you would normally be concerned with. And, the property thats to the west is currently on the market and being offered for sale. And we dont know who is going in there. We might want to be more buffered from them than they would want to be buffered from us. But were country people in the sense that we do work well with neighbors and we are community oriented and we have a resource capability of planting to resolve problems with neighbors. And if we have to offer trees or plants to neighbors to help screen things better and if they are willing to do that we would certainly be willing to do that also. So again were asking rather than you impose what would normally be required in a developed area if you look at this more like a place that hasnt been developed yet that we could do a naturalistic landscaping job EXHIBIT B 13