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closer you do it the more in jeopardy itÓs going to be; and itÓs going to wash away in 20 years. So thatÓs it. I thank you very much. SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Rothstein. Are there any other, are there any questions or comments from the Commissioners for the testifier? I have a few questions for the Planning Director based on Mr. RothsteinÓs testimony. Regarding the Gold or Silver standards, Audubon standards, as represented in Condition No. 66, can you respond as to why the Silver rather than the Gold was pursued? YUEN:As I wrote in a letter to the Planning Commission, it would not be proper for us to put a condition that required the use of a particular paid consultant for a project without the consent of the Applicant; and in this case the Applicant consented to Silver. To put this in some perspective, as Mr. Rothstein has said, and I think as youÓll look, as youÓll know by reading the conditions, the conditions on this golf course are by far the most comprehensive and stringent from an environmental point of view that have ever been put on a golf course project in this County. So I would like to have that in perspective. The Applicant has volunteered to meet the concerns to the point of going to the Silver certification. We seem to be then discussing primarily an issue of what plants are chosen for the landscaping of the facility. I would, again, put into perspective that weÓre dealing with an SMA permit for an area that is zoned for w visitor and residential and commercial units that has been scaled down to 500 residential units and where the entire shoreline, 45 acres is a public park, with public park facilities put into them, and IÓm sure that, and then, which is a condition that goes far beyond anything done on any project ever approved. I donÓt think I can, thereÓs any, thereÓve been any controls over any of the other coastal resort-type projects that limit the kinds of plants that they put it on a landscaping project. SPRINGER:Mr. Yuen, if I understood correctly from Mr. RothsteinÓs testimony, one of the benefits of the Gold standard is the, I think it was 20 visits by the Audubon Society to assure conformance. With Silver standard, there are 9 visits. Any comments with regard to conformance, assurance, the differences between the 9 and 20 visits? YUEN:Well, just that by taking the Silver standard, it is far in any permit. There was a golf course that actually was never been developed and it, because it involved, it did not involve a residential component. So some of the differences between Gold and Silver didnÓt, that make Gold more difficult did not apply in that case. SPRINGER:Thank you. With regard to Condition 70 or N.70 that lining should be comprehensive rather than limited to those holes below a thousand feet behind of sea level, do you have any comment? YUEN:As you get farther away the ground rises and thereÓs a greater lava area that would absorb any nutrients. 29