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WALKER:Yeah, as far as violations we are aware of the, you know, various police
<br />issues, and so forth, when they have to go up there.
<br />ALAMEDA:Seeing no further questions -. Oh, you have a question, Commissioner
<br />Siracusa?
<br />SIRACUSA:Yeah. I’m involved with Pahoa Weed and Seed; and part of what our
<br />group’s focus is trying to increase the amount of treatment facilities and intervention
<br />opportunities. I very much support treatment facilities, especially ones that are homey and not
<br />institutional looking, which would drive me crazy if I was in one of them. And, yet, I’m not sure
<br />what the best way is to implement situations like that. The Director said that there were more,
<br />there was more than one way to do this; and I sure would like to hear what all the options are,
<br />first. For, you know, like having, I can understand -. All right, you know, I’m on boards of non-
<br />profits, I understand that you can only serve so many people with “x” amount of money, you
<br />know. And, so, if it takes eight residents in a home to be, to make it cost-effective because of
<br />what your funders require, for example, that you serve a minimum number of clients, then there
<br />still has to be some other possibilities. And I would like to have the options spread before me
<br />like a smorgasbord so we can see what we have there, rather than just have one possibility, you
<br />know, change the definition to family and not be told what the other options are. Would you
<br />care to address that, Director?
<br />ALAMEDA:Mr. Director?
<br />YUEN:Well, as an over-arching kind of framework, you either have a permitted,
<br />something is either a permitted use or you have some special kind of procedure to allow it, or
<br />you don’t allow it at all. So this approach is that it would be, you know, up to eight would be a
<br />permitted use. Another option is that, it could require a use permit which would require coming
<br />before the Planning Commission on a case-by-case basis. Another option, if you want a
<br />smorgasbord, would be to allow nine, or ten, or seven, or six. You know, there’s a whole range
<br />of options.
<br />SIRACUSA:And variances. You forgot variances.
<br />YUEN:Variances are different. Please, I don’t want to spend, you know, a long
<br />time talking about what a variance is; and it would be difficult to call this a variance.
<br />ALAMEDA:Commissioner McCall?
<br />MCCALL:I guess mostly comments and then -. I know I’m not supposed to be
<br />testifying, but I guess I will anyway. Hopefully, it’ll come out with a question, Chris. I’m
<br />generally uncomfortable. I mean, I do see the need for treatment facilities. You can attest that
<br />there is, you know, that they are very valuable to the people being treated and that putting them
<br />in a community setting is part of the treatment; and that it is very valid. But, given that, I have a
<br />problem when you put any treatment facility in a residential neighborhood or any neighborhood.
<br />You are affecting all the neighbors. And saying that these people are out there anyway is not
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