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Then if you go up to Puainako Street, there is a, the Medium Density Urban extends a little bit south along Puainako Street, you know, in a direction down the page; and that point there on the mauka corner there is Kai Store and the Maebo Noodle Factory. And the zoning for those also goes back to the late sixties or early seventies. So we do think that there was a conscious intention that the Commercial areas here be limited to the other side of Kilauea Avenue and the corner of Puainako Street and Kilauea. And to say otherwise leads you to a situation where you just potentially march down Kilauea with commercial uses. And, you know, to relate this to the previous application as Commission Member Iwashita was trying to do, in the Waiakea Houselots area it was consciously, there was a decision, there was a General Plan Amendment to map the area as Medium Density Urban. There is an actual decision to do that; and that’s in the General Plan Maps. In this area, it is a Low Density area. Now the applicant in their letter does correctly point out that the wording of Low Density does not completely prohibit commercial uses, but it’s supposed to be commercial uses that are related to the immediate neighborhood. Whereas this is really something that would draw customers from wherever people found this, you know, made typically some kind of relationship with a person who works there. At a certain low level the Zoning Code does allow this kind of thing to be operated out of a home without a rezoning. The limitation, the main limitations are that you’re limited on your signage and you can have only one employee, in addition to the occupants of the home. So essentially if only, say only one of the occupant of the home works in the beauty business then they could have one other employee on site as a home occupation. The final thing I’d like to mention is that even if we were inclined to, the Commission is inclined to rezone, then you have the question of conditions of zoning. And if you look at the Public Works recommended conditions of road widening, curbs, gutters and sidewalks, for a Commercial zone, which is their standard recommendation, you would be looking at a very expensive improvement in order to establish a Commercial zone on the site. ALAMEDA: All right. I know that’s a lot of words and let me just try to summarize for the applicant. So what Mr. Yuen is saying is that what makes this different than the previous application which the Department, see how it works is you send in your application, the Department, they look at it and they make a recommendation. And then they give their recommendation to us and then we consider that and other evidence to make our decision. And so the Department said not good; and so, because it’s actually kind of like Low Density which means not too many people, not too many traffic. So to grant it would actually increase the density; and that’s why they’re saying not good for this application.But then, you know we may disagree with that or we may agree. And so we don’t know yet, that’s where we’re going to have this talk story. So, Commissioner Iwashita, you have thoughts on this? IWASHITA: I guess just to clarify, you just recently purchased this property? Is that right? EXHIBIT C 6