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ROLAND:Okay, thank you. SPRINGER:If you could speak more clearly. ROLAND:Okay. The 3 buildings that he is approving or recommending approval for. He is upping the square footage on each one of them to be accommodating I presume and it amounts to almost 3,000 square feet more than we will need and at the same time we are not being afforded the other buildings that we would like. So we would just like to point out the fact wed rather have another building than being allowed to have more square footage in the three that you are recommending. SPRINGER:Director Yuen? YUEN:Yes,wedidincreasethesquarefootageslightly.Whatwefindisthatvery often peoples plans change and we do want to have a limit but the- we felt we would be comfortable with slightly larger buildings in case the plans did change. On the question of the additional buildings that gets really to the phasing of the project, putting aside the camping question the question of additional-. You have another area for the same types of uses but in a different portion of the property and that was supposed to be a later phase. Our concern about the project is we see a project thats presented a certain way and there is a certain vision behind the project. Were quite happy at supporting that. We see a project that is providing work spaces for people in the Ocean View community to do- and we dont want to simply, we dont want to characterize it only as arts and crafts. We havent done that but its with that kind of a focus. On the other hand we are not supporting this as an area for a general light industrial building where you could have say, it could become self storage spaces, baseyards for contractors and the like. And the reason were not supporting it for that is that we have an area now in the General Plan for commercial and light industrial uses in Ocean View and this is outside that area. But we see a unique project that is being presented that has a lot of merit and so were supporting- we are supporting that but we dont- we would like to see that project show itself that thats the way its going and then apply for an additional phase. If the project develops as its been presented and it is a thriving area of workshops for craftspeople in the Ocean View area I would have no problem with approving a second phase of more of the same. But we would rather not do that right now. So thats the reason for having the square footage bigger than you even asked for, for the first phase, but not approving the second phase of the light industrial or crafts oriented workshop spaces that is in the phasing of the plan. ROLAND:Well weve been so hard pressed to demonstrate that were doing arts and crafts if we dont provide some space for that you know. We can do some of it outdoors but it seems like some structure that allows some qualified aspect that doesnt get confused as light industrial in the usual sense would really benefit the community. SPRINGER:Mr. Golding do you have some comments to make at this time? GOLDING, G.:Yes I think on the part that was approved there was a little misunderstanding as to the store. Were not proposing a- the gallery is for local artists to display EXHIBIT B 16