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IWASHITA: Three and two, is that what you said? GRAHAM: Yes. IWASHITA: Yes. GRAHAM: All right, thank you. Can we go with the vote, or do you have something else you’d like to say? IWASHITA: Well, you know, my concern is that there are some assumptions being made here or, you know, expectations. I don’t know what you want to call them, right, in terms of what the applicant is going to be able to do. And frankly from my side, you know, you’re talking about a zoning change and a buildout for light industrial. You know, they can have this storage facility and loading dock, that kind of stuff. I don’t see that there’s a guarantee, you know, that that’s going to happen. And the reason I favor a longer period of time is because the reality is on the ground in terms of what the applicant may be able to get other than this rezoning, right, which to me if you’re going to say that we want to support our zoning laws and the Zoning Code and how it’s implemented then we should be really looking at what’s already there. Because every time we do another rezoning, right, we actually are dishing what we already have, we are. Every time we say, okay, we’ll change the zone, right, well developers expect that to happen then. And then our existing Zoning Code which I agree with Commissioner Domingo, we should be implementing that. The effective way to implement that is to say what we have is what we have and is what we should develop.It’s not to say, well, it’s where we have commercial/industrial being developed now is not being developed so we’re going to allow more because somebody bought a piece of land and now they want to do that. So you know, that’s fine if the applicants want three years and is agreeable to three years, I’ll change the motion. Just make it three years, with a one year extension, that’s fine, I’ll do that. But as far as I’m concerned, you know, that’s based on some expectations that might not pan out. But -. GRAHAM: Okay, well, we do have a motion before us. Maybe we can, we have three years of a two-year extension and I’d like to go ahead and try to bring this to an end. IWASHITA: Right now it’s three years and two. GRAHAM: That’s what I said, three years with a two-year extension is what we have before us. IWASHITA: Okay, well, I’m willing to do it, three years and one if that helps any of the other Commissioners, that it’s a shorter period of time. GRAHAM: I think Mr. Torigoe told us we could go ahead and vote; and if we don’t get the vote we can change. Commissioner Woodward, would you -? EXHIBIT B 21