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5 years unless the State Land Use law is amended to change the r more than 15 acres must approved by the Land Use Commission,Ñ fu say, ÐThe Applicant shall include a restrictive covenant in the deed which states that.Ñ On the second question, the reason for having the limitation for no-home improvement centers, the Department can generally support Light Industrial uses in this location. ItÓs a right place for it. The Zoning Code was amended several years ago though to allow home improvement centers in ML zones, generally. A home improvement center is a much larger type of operation that could be a major traffic generator and is really a major type of urban retail use. On a selective basis when the site is not right for that use, the Department, in approving an ML zone, would knock out that as a use. We also have been, weÓve been approving rezoning. So the Department has been recommending that the Council and the Planning Commission approve rezonings that may limit some of the uses that are normally allowed in the zone. This is specificall Code that says that the Council can put conditions on a Change of Zone, including conditions that affect the use of the property. I wrote a memo to Corporation Counsel on this subject and I believe the Chair of the Council Planning Commission. IÓm not sure if I sent a copy of t Commission. But if any of the Commissioners want it, IÓd be happy to send the Commission members a copy of this memo that explains the sources of the CountyÓs power to do this. Sometimes, and this is an import-, this comes up because very often you see people who will come in for a Change of Zone and they have a specific proje to do. The project itself may be fairly limited in scale and it looks fine to do that project. But if youÓre looking at all the potential ranges of things that they could do with the zoning, then as a consequence of that -. If you just rezone the property and you allow that full-range of uses, you might say, have to say, no, to begin with, if itÓs a all-or- nothing kind of situation where you had to say, you could do all these, if you rezone this property and do all these things, that then you would have a lot of hesitation about doing it. If we had, for example, if Home Depot were coming in to rezone this property, as an Applicant in order to put a Home Depot in there, we would not, I mean, I would not favor this location. Because if you, and this goes back to the -. If you look at the Department of TransportationÓs comments on the McCully rezoning, because of the problems that you would have in -. YouÓre creating cross-bypass traffic, youÓre creating a major traffic generator that forces people to cross a bypass highway and, really, it hurts the function of the bypass highway as a means to move people through the communi So, in this case, we, the Department is supporting a Light, a true Light Industrial-type use or rezoning of the property but limiting the possibilities of what can be, limiting this particular possibility that exists under the zoning. 6