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GALDONES:Excuse me, IÓll have to -. Later on you can testify. FUJIKAWA:So, anyway, my question with the Director now is that what are we doing advising a private landowner how to do it? Because if, in case thereÓs a liability situation, itÓs a private road. So how do you take care this? CARDOZA:But just remember, thatÓs when they, when they wanted to acres, that was part of the infrastructure. FUJIKAWA:Well, that was the past there. But now present is that all of you are liable for the road. So the question with the Director I have is -. I donÓt think the County should get involved with this. CARDOZA:And they didnÓt make any difference before and now, laws are laws. GALDONES:Mr. Yuen? YUEN:As part of rezoning, we should look at safety of the road, even, and the adequacy of the road, even if it is a private road. We, in working this application up, we did rely on the comments of the Department of Public Works that the road is in pretty good condition. I think actually the road is a pretty good road for this level of development, except for, and IÓm not familiar with the upper part of the road. The intersection comes at a, thereÓs a little funny angle at the intersection; and, Mr. Cardoza, I donÓt have any reason to doubt him talks about there being a bad curve on it. We are dealing with, we canÓt simply say that it used to be zoned for 25 and now itÓs now going to be zoned for less. Because in developing that 25, they were going to have to improve the road substantially from what it is now. It doesnÓt look to me like those improvements actually -. I drive by that intersection all the time and I know nothing has ever been done at that intersection. I donÓt know about the road itself. And looking at the subdivision file, it does not look like the road improvements were required for that subdivision and the reason was that subdivision, in turn, did not create any more lots. It was what we call a consolidation/resubdivision. I hear the Commissioners saying, I donÓt think -. This question that Mr. Cradoza is raising of make the first person do a big job and then have the other people reimburse later, it comes up all the time; itÓs very difficult to do in practice. There are mechanisms for doing it but theyÓre quite cumbersome. There are things like Improvement Districts and the like. I donÓt think itÓs something that for a small project like this we could put in place. If the Commission, you know, the Commission has several options here. The Commission can continue and get more comments from the Department of Public Works. I think that the minimal, as I say, theyÓre talking about a minimal increase in the use of the property in this rezoning, from what is. I think you actually have four lots there now, am I correct? You have four lots on the property now? 18