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GOLDING, G.:Yes that was our plan. And like my wife pointed out without A & B itd seem like, cause weve been promoting this for maybe a year and a half, itd seem like what we got our second hand store but the people in the community didnt get their stores that theyve been looking for. Because there is really a limited amount of stores currently in that area. SIRACUSA:Yeah, so basically what Im trying to get at is that if those particular uses that I just mentioned that I liked would be- were planned for buildings A & B? GOLDING, C.:Yes. SIRACUSA:Thats correct. In that case I would you know want to poll the other Commissioners about how they would feel about approving A & B and limiting some of the uses that we were talking about that would normally be exempt in a mixed-industrial. SPRINGER:Commissioner Watanabe if I may before I call on you ask the Director whathisopinionisgiventhedirectionthatthediscussionisgoingnowtoapproveofA&B. YUEN:Wellthisisasimilardiscussionwehadin-houseandtheproblemiswe dont want-. We were hearing, we hear an application that is- that starts off being very generic, light industrial and office space, which could be just about anything which we are not in favor of. And then, then it starts to, then the application goes into something that is extremely specific and it says, Building A is a single story with a rising roof containing flexible office and shop bay rental spaces for professional and scientific programs and available for crafts or field workshops or projects in this district relating, related to archaeology, biology, seed bank collection, cultural in-depth historical research and providing for a computer use facility. Then it goes on to say that service organizations and some non-profits will be preferentially accommodated with a reduced rent subsidy which all other independent businesses would be on a first-come basis for remaining available space. As I said we are not supporting this for a general-purpose office commercial and light-industrial space. And at the same time I dont want to approve a, rental spaces for professional and scientific programs and available for crafts. You get, then you get into this- its, first, its really not going to work for them because people are going to come to you who are not necessarily fit within this definition and youre going to be in the position of having to turn them away. Or the Planning Department is going to have to watch and see exactly who is doing what. This is- theres another example of this in actually Pahui Plaza, the Ocean View was where they have a business area. And the unfortunate thing there is that it was written up with specific uses and so every time a business wants to come in with a different use it either doesnt fit or you have to amend the permit. Now that one is a location where we would say now, any office type use, okay go ahead do it what do we care I mean. But the problem is that it was written for a real estate office, a this and a that and so you, anybody else that wants to do a different kind of office it just doesnt fit the special permit. So, we- having the difficulty we had in nailing this down we just said defer this part of the application. Now, if we were to say-. Well if we were to talk about doing this is Building M, I would be more comfortable about doing this. And, because of this, again this scale issue. EXHIBIT B 28