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Generally, though, you know, if you have a change, say you had in an MCX zone, say you had a warehouse, all right, and so this lower level was permitted as a warehouse, eventually, and then somebody came in and wanted to convert it to a restaurant. Well, you did a building permit and if the staff is on the ball -. Because Planning looks at the building permit when it comes through, theyll say, Oh, this needs a Plan Approval. And at the Plan Approval somebody there on the ball will say, Oh, you cant do this because youre not going to have enough parking to change the warehouse to a restaurant, even though the restaurant is allowed by the MCX zoning. So thats the way its supposed to work. And if that, I dont know if Ive triggered some more questions, but I did want to ask a question of the Applicant about the warehouse. But the Commissioners have any questions? ALAMEDA:CommissionerWatanabe? WATANABE:IdontknowifthisissomethingIshouldhavebroughtupmorein deliberations, but I guess from my standpoint I would echo to some degree what the Director had said that, you know, the regulations are really arbitrary. That said, any business person would definitely look at available parking and if indeed there was not enough parking, I certainly, as a business owner, would not contract with that particular site for a restaurant which I know requires a lot of parking cause Im doomed to fail. And so in many ways I think you can look at the market to control a lot of these factors. Certainly, the business owners are aware of whether theres sufficient parking or not; and that in the end may be the ultimate control of what uses are based within that building. Thats why I dont know that its going to be that big of an issue over the long haul, meaning the marketplace will take care of that, I think. ALAMEDA:Question for our Applicant? Mr. Director? YUEN:I had a question about your plans to use, under current situation where if youre going to have offices or other kinds of commercial spaces, youre going to need to devote a major portion of the building to warehouse; and you say so youre going to have a furniture warehouse. The architects letter says that you have no industrial-type service doors on your ground floor that youll have all commercial or pedestrian type entrances. Is that correct? RICKENBACH:No. We have a roll-up door at the south end of the building where the furniture store has its warehouse. YUEN:Okay. Thank you. ALAMEDA:Other questions for the Applicants before we consider testimony and go into deliberation? How about Commissioner Graham, and then well come back to Commissioner Iwashita. 9EXHIBIT A