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ALAMEDA:Mr. Nishimura, while you’re up there, I have another question. This is just for my own understanding of the safety issue coming down Ainaola Drive. So they’re coming down Ainaola Drive on a pretty steep hill and that vehicle is potentially located right on the bend. Now who has the right-of-way, the Hoaka folks coming down, or the Ainaola folks coming down to connect onto that main road if they both -? Because why I ask is that because if the Ainaola folks got to come out of that, and if the trucks got to come out, the vehicle would then hurry up real quick and then slow down real quick. That’s potentially a dangerous situation. So who gets the right-of-way? NISHIMURA:No, the traffic, the traffic -. PUBLIC:There’s a stop sign. MCNICOLL:Ainaola is through and Hoaka stops. ALAMEDA:Okay. So Hoaka got to kind of stop and wait, okay. Okay. Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:I have another question, then I’m back to the Peter-Builts. So, basically, what I’m gathering from what you’re saying is the Peter-Builts are considered his personal items and collection, not necessarily businesss, which then might imply that even if I get an extension at some point I agree I’m going to try to move the business but not necessarily the Peter-Builts. And we’re talking like 16 Peter-Builts, again, and not one -? MCNICOLL:Now, a lot of those Peter-Builts are there for parts; and what I do is I restore older trucks, that’s like my hobby. I like to build older-type trucks. I’m not into the newer trucks. It’s more like a hobby, like how somebody owns a hot rod or motorcycle. You know, that’s my hobby. ALAMEDA:Okay, Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:Yeah. What do you do with the restored trucks? MCNICOLL:I just want to keep them and collect them and, you know, that’s it. WATANABE:I have a question for the Director. ‘Cause, you know, my general sense is that, again, like I stated earlier, those Peter-Builts are at the core of the problem. The applicant’s contention is that, “Oh, no, this is just a hobby.There’s no commercial issue.” He has not said that he sells those restored trucks, or there’s no way we can really say, you know, okay, this is a commercial issue. But it still is, I just think for most people, I’m not telling you how to live your life, but I’m just thinking for most people it’s offensive. Okay, I’m sorry. YUEN:Well, let me just explain how the Zoning Code deals with it. The Zoning Code has a definition of “junk yard;” and it’s basically, well, if you have more than 200 square feet of scrap metal or inoperable cars stored on your property, then it’s called a junk yard; and then we would cite the person. And I don’t know if that was, it was specifically stated in the citation; but that was part of the idea behind the citation, is that he’s storing an excessive amount of material. We do cite people for a junk yard. So my understanding of what he is asking is to, EXHIBIT D 11