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S. YERLICK: There’s a renovation being done on a house up from us. T. YERLICK: And in fact, one of the residents said if they improve the road, there’s possibility that somebody might try to subdivide, and then you would have more houses. And so they are really concerned with the change of the road size because they don’t want more houses and don’t want more traffic there. DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman. WATANABE: Mr. Domingo, follow-up? DOMINGO: I think that’s where we have a problem. If we require the applicant to build or improve the roadway up to their residence, and then in the future someone decides to sell the property and going for a rezoning and establish a number of lots and those lots are sold, how will the Public Works monitor situation and address concerns of traffic going up and down? Would they review that at the time they apply for a building permit? YUEN: No, because they have an existing driveway access, people can build more houses off of that driveway access without changing it at all in the future. Subdivision, unless there were a very substantial variance granted, a subdivision would require considerable improvement to the entire road. The only point I was, the reason I said what I said about building a house and putting in a driveway is to counter the idea that this was an arbitrary improvement that we plucked out the ear. As I said, this is, we understand what the applicant is saying and there is a point to it that it’s a small increase in the traffic of the road, it is something that, the driveway access is considerably less currently than what would be required for a new driveway. So it isn’t something that’s an arbitrary standard; this is a standard for new driveways. You could build on more houses and other things that don’t need anything beyond the building permit off of the existing driveway without ever having to come to Public Works to change the driveway because they already have one. WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: Well, I think what we are dealing with here is an existing roadway that has worked well for the four people that have properties on that roadway. An existing driveway and an existing structure that is not going to be materially changed, and the only thing that’s going to change is they are going to have four rooms for a bed and breakfast. The additional traffic, even if they are full everyday of the year, is going to be minimal. And I can’t see, as I say, I think this is one of the points where government gets a little excessive. You know, just let them do it; it’s not going to hurt anybody. WATANABE: Okay. Ms. Bowman. BOWMAN: Just to reiterate, it’s a precedent setter to me, and it’s – I have no idea, I’m not an engineer – but I’m sure a project like this would be a couple hundred thousands? I don’t EXHIBIT A 11