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and drive. I think it’s actually closer to Poinciana, but I know that Poinciana was very congested in the last evacuation. If I were them I would drive to -. WATANABE:Yeah. The only reason I brought that up is I do believe we did make some requirements of evacuation plans in other projects, and maybe my recollection is wrong. But I’m just wondering if, you know, we should document something like that. Or if it’s not necessary then, you know, I’m fine with that, because I agree, you know, the first order of business is get to higher ground. ALAMEDA:Okay. Director? YUEN:I can’t remember if we had required a specific evacuation plan before. You know, I just don’t remember. It seems like the plan would consist of giving people -- and it might be useful, especially if they might be occupied by people who don’t live or only live in the community part-time, that happens -- and it might not be a bad idea to have specific instructions, you know, in the lobby of the building as to what you should do. And, also, I believe, Sidney, this is not actually in an inundation area but it’s in an evacuation area, right? FUKE:I recall, I know definitely evacuation area, but I don’t know if it’s in an inundation area. YUEN:We should have that in. Does it say the property is not in the, I didn’t think it was in an inundation area. HAYASHI:The flood zone for the property is AE. It’s not necessarily within the tsunami inundation area. YUEN:The AE is just a regular flood zone. Where’s the flood zone on the property? It’s in the upper corner, huh? HAYASHI:The AE is generally in this, makai of this. So the remaining project is X, Zone X. YUEN:Okay. Well, the difference is the inundation area is the actual area where you expect tsunami run-up and then the evacuation area is much larger. If you open your phone book you’ll see the evacuation area.And part of the idea behind the evacuation zone is that if you actually have a tsunami, many neighborhoods will be cut off after the tsunami. Even if they may not be affected by the tsunami itself, there’ll be debris, telephone poles across the road, and you’d be stuck in your property, so they want you to evacuate. And they want to have control over the area, as well to make sure that everybody is out that is in the vicinity. So the evacuation area is much larger than the inundation area. But it might be useful to, for say in a multi-family building to have clear instructions, you know, of where you should go and things like if you feel -. What a lot of people don’t realize is if you feel a very strong local earthquake you could have a big tsunami within seconds, so that you need to get to higher ground by walking in that situation, don’t worry about your car. If you’re in a low lying area you walk to wherever you can get to as fast as you can. So we could have a condition requiring a plan. It wouldn’t be something really elaborate. It would probably just be something like I just stated. EXHIBIT B 21