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IWASHITA:Second floor space. And this fitness center is for, what -? RICKENBACH:The fitness center is the entire upstairs of the north building, which would be the one on the left. And I think I can explain your concerns regarding the number of stalls. Part of our space is our warehouse space downstairs where the furniture store thats going to be moving into our building downstairs will have a very, one per thousand square feet requirement for parking. Other versions of the space that we have leased are of an industrial nature, like warehouse and show-room space; and I think thats one per 400. And some of the space that were leasing will be office space and that will be one per 300. So if you put the real mix together, the parking spaces work out for the people that we have coming in, as I would interpret it. ALAMEDA:Follow-up? IWASHITA:Well, if basically the entire second floor for both buildings are usedforcommercialspace,thentheparkingrequirements,itwouldseemlikemostofthe bottom will have to be used for warehouse. Right? As a practical, Ive been to some of these other, you know, places up in Kaloko, up in the industrial areas where, you know, parking is really a problem; and I dont know if its because of, you know, any illegal uses that have come up after the fact, but -. I know that this is supposed to be dealt with administratively. But it seems like where there is clearly going to be mixed uses on the property and if it actually doesnt include warehouse space in the future and its, you know, industrial and yet the 400, 300 mix, that this 69 stalls is, you know, is not going to be adequate; and youre going to basically force an off-site parking kind of requirement. You know, it seems that there really ought to be more parking stalls if were going to have a mixed use, in anticipation of that mixed use. You know, youre doing it straight on the industrial use for the parking requirement on the old zoning, right? This was approved under the old zoning, under ML zoning, the building plan. And, so, you know, I can see that. But coming in with this change, it seems to me that you expect, you know, the owner is going to do commercial uses in there, just doing the minimum parking requirement under the old zoning which is also applicable to Industrial use and the MCX 1-A zoning, that doesnt seem to be real prudent. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Well, I was just going to ask the Planning Director for a little bit of follow-up on the very same issue. It was being requested here if the whole thing were used commercially then they wouldnt quite have the parking they need. But theyre planning to use, you know, some commercial uses and some other uses within the property that wouldnt require the same density of parking so that they can fit in what they had planned. I guess Im wondering two things. One is, is this breaking new ground or is this something that has been done many times before and its sort of acceptable to the Department? And the other thing is I think our main issue is we dont want to get in a situation where the Planning Department, where we come in at some point in the future, well, the County comes in and theres some complaint about parking for the uses that are 7EXHIBIT A