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trying to be good neighbors with the bougainvillea. That costs us a lot more than just buying jasmine and putting them down. The other issue is how did the jasmine do? Okay, this is about six months ago. Here is a photograph trying to show our existing entrance, and youre welcome to pass this around if you want, what the jasmine has done. As you see, you cannot even see a fence in here anywhere. You can see a little bit at the top of a building and maybe the top of a fence if you look really carefully. The jasmine did its job. It covered our facility and made it not visible from Kaloli, the main street, and not visible in this other photograph showing from -, which is completely covered, and we feel it was a success. The neighbors had no idea, they figured they were weeds. The area in front of our property is the community association -. This is, Im almost wrapped up here, is the community property, the community association property. We dont have the right to landscape that. We can mow it. We tried that a couple of times and all it did was collect junk carsandlotsofgarbage.Sowedecidedletsmakeitnatural,wellletitgrowlikethisallthe way down that street. And thats what it is now and thats what this reflects. Okay, youre welcome to see this closeup if you want to. But thats our landscaping plan. We did get, again, the inspector went out and verbally called us back and told us that, yes, youve complied with the, he sees the plantings; and weve done everything we were told to do. So thats the thing. Now if people had known up front that these so-called weeds are jasmine, that have little white flowers and do cover the fence because they grow up a fence, if they had known that, maybe this wouldnt have all been so harsh on them. Then they looked like an unkempt area; and its a bunch of weeds. Well, theyre jasmine. We can plant some weeds if you want it to be. But we did it on purpose in our landscaping plan, and then we liked it. Thank you. ALAMEDA:Thank you for that. I wanted to ask our Corp. Counsel. I know that youre showing us something I think thats an exhibit of some sort. I wanted to follow up. Mr. Torigoe? TORIGOE:Yeah, thats a good question. The applicant is holding up a panoramic photograph and I just wanted to see Is that an exhibit in the record? MR. VURICH:No, it is not. We were asked for colored photographs, and I was thinking for your own benefit. I mean, one more thing I want to say about exhibits and the photograph, we were told in a preliminary hearing by the hearing, in the preliminary hearing we were told that the existing facility was not to be used as anything in this contested case hearing. It turned out to be the only thing, it seems like; and that was the main thing, it was the landscaping. So we in the preliminary thing, we did not submit any photos of the facility because we didnt want to have to be confusing what we were told not to do. As it turned out theres not much in the record on the landscaping because, on our side, only for photographs on the other side which were taken to make us look the worst. And it happened that way, we take our lumps, we objected to it, and well go from there. ALAMEDA:There is a procedure about accepting new evidence, so I wanted to -. Mr. Torigoe, how would we proceed with that? TORIGOE:Well, in couple ways you could do this. One is you could just ask if the parties would agree to allow the use of photographs or diagrams, that sort of thing, for purposes 8EXHIBIT B