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there. So Im just wondering does the County get the ahead of time notice such that it can forestall running into a situation where uses were not in conformance with the parking thats allocated? YUEN:First, the commentary, questions and the letter from the architect are correct in that theres not enough parking if the building were to be put entirely to Commercial uses. It was permitted with a, its not a huge difference in the number of parking spaces required but it was permitted as an industrial building with one parking space for 400 square feet. Some of the commercial uses will require one for 300 square feet; and it requires, so theres just isnt enough. To make it work, you have to have some, you have to have a portion of the property put in warehouse space. And I have a, I heard the Applicants comment about that. I have a follow-up question for the applicant on that. So that will work mathematically because warehouse, you only need one per thousand. On the broader question of how does this work in practice, there really isnt a perfect solutioninasenseofwegetbusinesses,thePlanningDepartmenthas,partoftheZoning Code which we rarely get into -. I mean, we dont really talk about this as much as the Commission but sometimes weve talked about it with multi-family buildings. Part of the Zoning Code lays out all these parking requirements. And, but in real life, if you have a very popular business where people, say, come and stay a long time, you may not enough parking. A very common kind of problem is that you have not enough parking at certain times of the day. And eventually we get complaints, you know, in the Planning Department, follow-up kinds of complaints. Example would be people in Hilo are familiar, theres a Subway, theres some restaurants that have been built on the corner of Lanikaula and Kilauea Streets where you have a Subway and a couple of other restaurants, and theres a laundromat behind that; and at lunch time, you know, theres not enough parking but it complies with the Parking Code, you know. And theres no real way, youre not going to solve this absolutely in advance. Youre going to approve a building and you dont know, these things are not plucked out ideas. Theyre based on national parking kinds of standards. But you dont know in advance whether the business is going to be unusually popular. So we do get these kinds of problems. And in the end actually there isnt that much you can do about it because youve approved the building and it turns out to be very popular. And thats the more normal kind of problem. Now, you can also have issues if uses get changed and its not caught, that they need to have more parking. The change of use is supposed to get a Plan Approval. Change of use in a commercial or industrial building is supposed to have a Plan Approval. However, if it doesnt trigger a building permit, for example, then you might do it and the Planning Department is not running around, you know, looking at individual bays and industrial buildings or commercial buildings to see what kinds of uses there are. So if we get a complaint and theres not been a Plan Approval for the change and its apparent that the parking requirements are no longer met, then we will go out and do something about that. So it is, its something that can happen. 8EXHIBIT A