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something for the future you might think about, cause it€s really unnecessary to have <br />gone through this process. It could have been done probably in a much shorter fashion. <br />Anyway, I have nothing further to add. <br />GALDONES:Commissioners, are there any questions of Mr. Yeh? <br />Commissioner Graham? <br />GRAHAM:Actually this is more for the Planning Director. But in regard to <br />the same point you just brought up, I know earlier, maybe earlier this year, there was <br />some sense in the Commission that the way that the public notice was going out to <br />adjoining property owners, it seemed to encourage, if you are concerned, encourage filing <br />for Contested Case Hearing; and then maybe some were doing it without really <br />understanding the true implications. So I wondered, and at the time we suggested maybe <br />the Planning Department could work on changing the way that notice is put forth. Has <br />anythingbeendoneonthat? <br />GALDONES:Mr.Yuen? <br />YUEN:IstartedtowritesomethingbutInevergotitfinished. <br />YEH:AsIunderstandthepracticeisoftenleftuptotheApplicanttogo <br />send the notices out. It might be good to have some sort of a standard form where the <br />public is provided some more information. Cause I think in this situation, the Clements <br />may have understood the notice, or misunderstood the notice, to mean that if they <br />objected they then needed to file a Contested Case Hearing request, but I€m not sure. <br />HAYASHI:Normally, what we do is that once a petition is filed for standing, <br />we do contact the, procedurally we do contact the Applicant, and I do call them up to say <br />that do you understand what the procedures are. And in this particular case, the Clements <br />decided, yes, they would like to proceed with the Contested Case Hearing. And <br />sometimes I€ve discussed it with Commissioner Graham that the way the notices are sent <br />out by the Applicant, it does say that if you have any objections, some letters do say that <br />if you have any objections, file this Petition; and maybe that€s where we need to inform <br />the applicants that perhaps the wording may not be, should be revised. <br />GALDONES:Commissioners, any further questions of Mr. Yeh? <br />YEH:Thank you. <br />GALDONES:Thank you, Mr. Yeh. Is there any one from the public who wishes <br />to testify on this subject matter? Norman, is the Applicant or the representative present? <br />HAYASHI:Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Mortara are here. <br />3 <br /> <br />