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DARROW:Yes. ALAMEDA:Okay. Thanks. SPRINGER:Mr. Yuen? YUEN:Just to refer, again, to the fact that were dealing with an SMA Permit. And I dont know if you were here forthe earlier discussion, theres a, the property is zoned for Multi-Family use. The permit that hes getting, theres several things that were supposed to consider. Roads and traffic, we can only consider to a very limited extent, as wediscussedearlier, to the extent that they cause a significant environmental or ecological effect in the coastal area. They may affect public access or evacuation from the, the ability to evacuate people from the area. Ithinkthetestifierscomplaintwiththerunoffisthattheroadis,getsdifficulttouse,not that theres runoff into the ocean. The property is quite aways from the ocean, separated from the ocean by Alii Drive and by the Kahaluu Beach Park. The project does not, the conversion of an existing dwelling from a single-family dwelling to three units is not going to change the runoff situation. The footprint doesnt change the way the water runs off, it will not change as well. And we did not take up, we appreciate the comments of the Department of Public Works. We want them to give us their comments regardless of where we may ultimately have to go with this. But we did not put on roadway improvement on, even driveway improvements on this because we could not credibly tie those to the environment, or ecology of the coastal zone, or the public access, or the safe evacuation from the property, given the fact that this is only proposed for three units in an existing building that doesnt increase the number of bedrooms. Finally, the parking, theres an overall parking requirement in the County Zoning Code that calls for 1.25 spaces for multi-family buildings, apartment-type buildings. So that works out to 3.75 for a three units, and we rounded it off to four for this project so that they would be required to have four. This is the kind of thing that you really cant do on a family-by-family basis. There has to be an overall standard for it. You dont know whos going to, you know, people can, it may be that this is outmoded as this was done sometime ago. But if were going to change it, we need to change it for everybody rather than try to figure out how many people live in a particular building and adjust it on a site- specific basis. SPRINGER:Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Yeah. I noticed in Condition 2, that referred to landscaping requirements of the Department. And Im wondering if we can just take that a little bit to say that landscaping should attempt to mitigate runoff that has been generated on the property. I know exactly how long 500 feet is, because I have a driveway and its 300 feet, and I can, you know, extrapolate from there. And I know that when it rains very 10