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YUEN:Is the house, is it in a neighborhood that looks like a single-family <br />residential neighborhood of normal sized ag lots? <br />MICHELL:Yes, yes. <br />YUEN:I don’t know for sure the area but I think it’s in the State Land Use Urban <br />District; and that means that they couldn’t apply for a special permit. <br />MICHELL:Okay. <br />ALAMEDA:Thank you. Any other questions? I have one. Gary, the question was <br />asked earlier about the Department of Health’s criteria. From what I understand it’s pretty <br />stringent. Would you like to comment on the criteria to actually, some of the criteria that maybe <br />Commissioner Siracusa might be referencing to, to get it licensed from the Department of <br />Health? <br />MICHELL:If the facility needs to be licensed, we have one facility that is licensed by <br />the Office of Health Care Assurance and there is a process that we have go through. For <br />example, they look at the cesspools, for example. That has always been an issue. They look at <br />staffing. Houses that need to be licensed, need to, again, be under the scrutiny of Office of <br />Health Care. Their registered dietician, for example, there usually have to be a nurse involved in <br />our particular case. So there are a variety of issues that need to be addressed before a house can <br />be licensed. <br />ALAMEDA:How about the number of rooms. Is that to be ADA-compliant, all of <br />those other examples? <br />MICHELL:Not necessarily. We have some of our houses that are HUD-funded by the <br />Federal government that must be ADA-approved; but houses that are licensed do not necessarily <br />have to be ADA-approved. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay. <br />YUEN:Do they check the size of the rooms. Is there a requirement for the size of <br />rooms, number of people in a room? <br />MICHELL:Yes, they do. Department of Health allows a maximum of two per room. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay. Thank you. Any questions, Commissioner Siracusa? <br />SIRACUSA:Yes. Well, I’m thinking about the situation here where on a one-acre <br />parcel with two dwellings, you’re looking at eight people plus two staff, so that’s 10 all together. <br />And I’m wondering whether that parcel has a septic system as opposed to a cesspool because that <br />would come down to 10 and 10, 20 people; and that’s like five gallons a day of water which <br />EXHIBIT D <br />11 <br /> <br />