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approval when we looked at the parking for an industrial/commercial building in Kaloko at the last meeting. So that’s a stage where we could look at this and make sure that they had taken care of the site drainage at plan approval. So we’re amending the Chapter 25 plan approval to say that you have to have a site drainage plan, you have to have a site drainage plan approved by the Department of Public Works. And, again, it has the same requirement of draining the one- hour ten-year storm into the drywells. We then noticed that there’s one type of development that can be fairly major that’s not covered currently by plan approval; and that’s major agricultural processing facilities. Those are allowed in agricultural areas. There are things like a sugar mill would be a major agricultural processing facility, a saw mill, other kinds of large processing plants for agricultural products. A cannery could be one, a slaughter house could be one.A dairy building could be a major agricultural processing facility. This is the type of structure that the Federal requirements want you to cover. So we had to, for this reason, and this is something that I have been thinking about doing for some time anyway, is requiring plan approval for those kinds of buildings. And so the Code would be amended so that those would be brought under plan approval. And then the final part of this package that I just mentioned briefly is that the contents of a site drainage plan we put in the Flood Control Ordinance, Chapter 27. And normally you don’t, the Planning Commission does not normally look at Chapter 27. It’s not really part of what you review under your requirements under the Charter. But the whole picture doesn’t make sense unless you see what the site drainage plan looks like; and so that’s why we put Chapter 27 in there. ALAMEDA: All right, Fellow Commissioners, any questions? How about Commissioner Siracusa, then Commissioner Watanabe. SIRACUSA: Isn’t it pretty much a done deal that we have to approve these anyway because otherwise we won’t be in compliance? I mean it’s not like we go out to public hearing and someone says, oh, I don’t like this part or how about adding something like that and we would consider it? Is it, I mean, or isn’t it? YUEN: Well, there are different ways that you could come into compliance. So this is not only, like this is not dictated. The contents of how you do it on a local level are not dictated by the Federal government. You just have to have an ordinance like this. So I wouldn’t say there’s no way to make changes. But you have to have something like this. For example, we’re tying this into the flood program, although the purpose of this is not actually a flood control measure. All right? But the result of that is that we’re actually treating more water with this proposal than the Feds would actually require you to. But since you’re putting it into the drywell anyway and that covers it, why not have the same standard for the pollution control as for the flood control. ALAMEDA: Okay. YUEN: But, you know, it’s not like you must enact exactly these words or else situation. ALAMEDA: Commissioner Watanabe. EXHIBIT B 3