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IWASHITA:I’m not asking you what other officials did. I’m asking you whether you did any investigation. YAMAMOTO:We did not look, we did not study evacuation, okay. IWASHITA:Okay. So your report does not address the evacuation issue? YAMAMOTO:No, it does not. IWASHITA:Okay. The last point that I wanted to bring is, I guess my understanding of your answer previously about my questions of public access was, your personal, you related your personal observations as to the flow of traffic, and you didn’t think that to be excessive. Does any part of your study address what the current conditions are as far as, and I take access to mean not just flow of traffic but actual available parking and those kind of things, did you consider those other factors in addressing public access to the recreational areas? YAMAMOTO:In terms of parking, I know that parking is very difficult there, and we did have the parking in the property access -. But, traffic, again, can be very busy there on weekends and weekdays it might be big, higher there on weekends than on weekdays. But I know parking is, but this project should not affect the parking on that, on the street itself. IWASHITA:Thank you, Mr. Yamamoto. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Commissioner Iwashita. Any other questions for Mr. Yamamoto? Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:Okay. All right. I have a question more for the Director. And I know that you, I think you were looking up the map that Mr. Graham referred to. But I thanked Mr. Fuke for volunteering or the concessions that they made for improving the parking along Alii Drive. And I was wondering if you were okay with adding that, he had some suggested wording, if adding that as one of the conditions to this SMA Permit -? YUEN:That’s fine with me. WATANABE:Okay. And then, certainly, I’m wondering ‘cause I -. I’m wondering if we should add in a requirement about a tsunami evacuation plan in conjunction with Condition 7, which is a circulation plan. ‘Cause it seems like the circulation plan itself is really in flux at this point; and so I’m not sure that they could, you know, do a good job of an evacuation plan without thorough knowledge of, you know, a firm circulation plan yet. And I’m wondering if we should include that as a requirement. Maybe I missed it but I don’t see where we have a requirement for any type of evacuation plan as a condition. ALAMEDA:Director? YUEN:I’m just not sure what an evacuation plan would be other than for a tsunami where you had, a typical tsunami where it’s generated on the Pacific Rim and you have several hours warning. The plan would be to get in your car and, you know, get on Alii Drive EXHIBIT B 20