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as part of this Special Permit, to be able to keep the Peter-Builts. And it’s part of our, if our denial is upheld, then beyond 200 square feet of stored, he would -. WATANABE:So then we’re allowing unrelated agricultural business and a junk yard in a State agriculturally-zoned area? YUEN:Well, we, you’ve got to draw the line somewhere. I mean, people do have inoperable cars, an inoperable car or two. But then what you see out of the community sometimes is people start to have these big piles of scrap metal. And I’m not, you know, necessarily talking about Mr. McNicoll, but there are, you do see people who have big piles of scrap in their yards and junk in their yards. And the Planning Department, if it’s more than 200 square feet, we cite them for this, and tell them to get rid of it; and, you know, we might give them some time to get rid of it. But this is a fairly common garden variety citation that we issue in agricultural and residential areas. So, that’s how we handle this, these collections of inoperable machinery; and it includes storage of vehicles for parts that’s -. So the citation did, the citation that he had did say that he had to remove the inoperable equipment. ALAMEDA:I have a question for, I guess I’ll ask Mr. Director. Just for my own sense of how large is 200 square feet, could you kind of square off this room for me. I just kind of would like to know what is 200 square feet. YUEN:Well, 200 square feet is 20 by 10 -. ALAMEDA:So maybe like -. YUEN:And like a two-car garage, no one-car garage, I’m sorry, more like a one- car garage. This room is about 40 by 50. I’d say this room is about 2,000 square feet. ALAMEDA:So maybe that first section over there, that’s about 200 square feet? YUEN:Yeah, where the gentleman is sitting on the right there. But a car in a garage will take up a space of 10 feet wide by 20 feet long, that’s about 200 square feet. ALAMEDA:Okay. So I understand what you call the Code and all, and I do understand where Commissioner Watanabe is coming from; but 200 square feet is pretty small and a lot of people would be -. WATANABE:Yeah, yeah, but he’s asking -. I’m sorry, I’m out of order but he’s asking for three-quarters of an acre. ALAMEDA:Right, right, right. But just going back to the Code, I mean, that’s real rigid. Any other questions for Mr. Nishimura or Mr. McNicoll? NISHIMURA:Could Mr. McNicoll respond to Commissioner Watanabe’s point? ALAMEDA:Sure. Mr. McNicoll, go ahead. EXHIBIT D 12