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case. As, what weÓre doing here is suggesting, IÓm recommending that the Commission not vote on the SMA Permit until after the Council has granted the rezoning, rather than issuing an SMA Permit on the expectation that the Council will grant the rezoning. That decision of whether to defer or not is up to the Commission. KUBOTA:Yeah. ThatÓs where IÓm asking you why, why, why are you us to defer it until the Council acts on the change, the other, what is it called now, itÓs, rezoning. Why are you asking us? I just want an answer, thatÓs all, other than whatÓs here. Because they apply to everybody else, is what IÓm saying. I find it very confusing. YUEN:IÓve done my best to explain that this application is, involves a great deal more uncertainty and a great deal more of a possible change of the use than the other applications weÓve gone ahead and said, well, the Planning Commission ought to go ahead and vote on the SMA Permit at the same time as the rezo the scale of the project, the different kinds of uses that are proposed and the relatively unformed nature of the application. If you, and IÓve tried to explain how that differs from the few examples that I can think of in my administration of concurrent processing of rezoning and SMA Permits so that we, itÓs not a question of there being some, that itÓs on some kind of personal level, or this particular applicant, or this particular consultant, or any other kind of improper reason for recommending this. KUBOTA:Okay. I guess, to bring this to a closure, Mr. Chairman, I, perhaps the Planning Director and I will, are looking at this project from a different perspective. He was looking at it critically from a trained plannerÓs perspective. I am looking at it from a lay personÓs perspective; and I find the conceptual design no different from the others that have come before us. ItÓs a conceptual design and others have been conceptual designs. I donÓt look at, upon this as any different. And the Planning Director seems to see it differently. And, forgive me, but I have a laymanÓs eye and I canÓt see that. FUJIKAWA:Thank you for your point of concern. Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Mr. Fujikawa, I have a question with regard to the Applicant but theyÓre not about this particular procedural issue. So if anybody else has comments about the, proceeding with this, it may be better to hear them first and then maybe you can get back to me about some other questions I have with the Applicant. FUJIKAWA:Complying toward the ApplicantÓs representative? GRAHAM:Yes. FUJIKAWA:Mr. Fuke? SPRINGER:With regard to the process -. FUJIKAWA:Oh, Commissioner Springer? 22