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WATANABE: Okay. We did have a brief conversation before this about the potential for an extension. And let me share this with you: For the nearly five years now that IÓve been on the Planning Commission, historically five years is a standard that we have gone with. IÓm aware of only one other instance Î I believe you were the representative in that Î that was a Volcano area, where we had a longer period; but other than that IÓm not aware of any others that weÓve provided more than five years. And part of the reasoning for this is, you know, time changes everything, Mr. Melrose, I think you will agree with that; today we are looking ahead five years and we may think the traffic issues are this and three years from now they may be significantly more or significantly less Î no one can foresee the future. I will remind you that the Planning Director would have an equal period to administratively extend that five-year period, so in essence you are talking about a ten-year period. And given the our past preference for five-year period, in fairness to the general public I think that that might be out of question at this point. Hopefully, the economy will recover within a ten-year period and you will be able to build that gym because the total Use Permit extends far beyond the five-year period. And I think No. 6 is in direct reference to only Phase 1, which includes the gym. Am I correct? MELROSE: Yes, but then it puts ten years into the middle school, which is the -. WATANABE: Yeah, for the, and again, the ten years potentially, t administrative extension, could become 20 years. ItÓs a significant amount of time and very difficult for, I think, any individual to predict what the consequences may be. And with that, I for one would have some reluctance. Of course, we also have Ms. Masunaga here who could share her thoughts on that. Margaret? MASUNAGA: In terms of the time frame, I think, you know, you are right; itÓs kind of hard to predict. I donÓt know if Mr. Hayashi has a comment on that? HAYASHI: WeÓll let Maija respond to that, if itÓs okay with you, Margaret. MASUNAGA: Okay, thank you. COTTLE: As the Chairman mentioned, we normally, the Planning Department only allows five years, and then the applicant will have to come in for an administrative extension. In this case we allowed a little bit more time based upon what was proposed in their application. So we would be okay with moving all construction to a ten-year period, but beyond that -. (After a brief discussion with Mr. Hayashi,) okay, IÓm sorry, we would prefer to leave it as is because they can come in through administrative time extension and request more time that way. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Like I said, Mr. Melrose, you do have five years for Phase 1 and potentially ten with an administrative extension. IÓm sure the Department will be fair with you, if per chance this Use Permit is approved, they are not going to pull the rug out from under you after five years. MELROSE: Yes. No, I understand that issue -. EXHIBIT A 17