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AU: Second. WOODWARD: All right. So your motion is to send a favorable recommendation to Council for the deletion of Condition D? DOMINGO: Just deletion of Condition D with no other, other applications to it. WOODWARD: Okay. GONZALEZ: No other amendments. WOODWARD: All right; and for the, okay. Do we have any discussion? Okay, well, I’ll throw in my two cents worth. I think Commissioner Domingo has a point here and I think I -. And from what I can sort of glean, the Department is not real steadfast in their convictions on this one in that this property is surrounded, I mean in every direction except one there’s Medium Density; and there’s more Medium Density in anywhere near this than there is Low Density. It’s a bit, seems a bit capricious to me that we’ve got this patchwork effect; and it would seem to me to be more reasonable as Commissioner Domingo is suggesting to move it over one street to that next street over. So I would be in favor of -. And, again, I’ve seen too many abuses and misuses, in my opinion, of modified zoning. I can tell you a place out in Ocean View that, where they have the swap meet now. This is all zoned Agricultural. And these people came back so many times, and so many times, eventually the Planning Commission back in 90’s decided that they were going to give them essentially the ability to do anything that could be done in the MX zone without changing the zoning. I mean, you can really get some strange combinations and permutations. So it would seem to me that the most simple direct thing to do would be to delete this condition. And I think based on the fact that this is in an area with a lot of Medium Density, and the only legitimate reason for not having a true CN zoning here would be the fact that it is in fact in the LUPAG Map Low Density. But, again, it’s surrounded on all sides by Medium Density zoning. So that’s my two cents worth. Anybody else have any comments? Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just additional comments as you were speaking. I liken this situation with that of the industrial area, I mean not industrial area but Houselots. In the years past it was predominantly, its use was for residential uses. But what we’re seeing here today, and it was dependent upon the requirements and the need for light industrial uses, office and other mixed uses at that, at this time. And that’s why what we’re seeing at the Houselots, it’s a combination of various types of uses and a slow transition from residential into those uses. And it’s only because the demand is there, you know. And those who lived there prior who owned those homes have become old, or have sold their interest, or turned their interest over to their children; and their children, in effect, had other plans with other intended uses; and they’re also going into light, into Light Industrial and Office uses, a combination of what we’re seeing there today. 11