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TORIGOE:Yeah, is Mr. Eger done with his argument at this point or not? <br />EGER:That was our response to Mr. Vurich€s. I have not even started my <br />argument, Mr. Torigoe. <br />TORIGOE:Okay. At any rate, you need clarify that Mr. Vurich could finish his oral <br />argument, and then Mr. Eger should take over the floor and finish his oral argument, and then the <br />Planning Director, and then the applicant will have chance to respond after that. And at some <br />point the Chairperson can allow for questions from the Commission. <br />ALAMEDA:Can we ask the applicant just to hold that question until the intervenor has <br />finished his oral argument or -? <br />TORIGOE:Hastheapplicantfinishedwithoralargument? <br />MR.VURICH:No,Ihaven€t. <br />ALAMEDA:Oh,youhaven€t,okay. <br />MR.VURICH:Ihaven€tevenstartedthat.Ijustwantedtorespondtohisstatements,and <br />it won€t be long. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay, could I ask the applicant to go ahead and finish their oral argument. <br />Would you go ahead and finish your argument. <br />MR. VURICH:Okay, great, thank you. We did receive a notice from the County saying <br />that we were in default of our landscaping plan. We had previously contacted the County letting <br />them know that some of our plants did not make it. And just to really quickly, our original <br />landscaping plan was to cover our fencing to hide the place, basically. We planted jasmine on <br />two sides. It is, I€ve got some pictures if you would like to see what it looks like as of six <br />months or so ago and it€s getting, it€s almost completely there. It€s hidden. <br />The other two sides, we were trying to be a nice neighbor. I mean these two sides were one <br />piece of property that we now own to hopefully expand on; and the other is a vacant lot. We put, <br />at the time we didn€t know that other property, so we put bougainvillea to try to be a nice <br />neighbor. We tried to make it better than just covering the fence. We wanted something pretty. <br />The bougainvillea did not do very well. We received a letter saying an inspector went and <br />inspected and didn€t find any bougainvillea. We, and they also requested that we revise our <br />landscaping plan which we had the architect do, and plant our plants after all this was done; and <br />we did plant. And they are planted and fortunately we put soccer hoses down so they didn€t die <br />during this nice drought period. So the new plants are all growing nicely. And he went back out <br />and reinspected and did find the bougainvillea. We did do our plan as we had, we were told to <br />do to begin with. The bougainvillea did not do as well. There€s only a handful of them left. We <br />about a year ago had let the County know, and one of our contesteders, Larry Schneider, we let <br />him know the bougainvillea didn€t grow very well and we wanted to plant the jasmine in place to <br />cover those existing fences. And against, everything is used against you, I guess. We were <br />7EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />