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Mr. Horiuchi lived in that house my whole life. And, you know, he came to my family and said, I know how you feel about this, but we want money. You want to buy us out? And we said No. We couldnt afford it. The whole neighborhood couldnt afford to buy it together. We tried. Okay, so when it comes to a situation, I mean, when you go and you buy a property and they do a title search, they tell you, single family residential. You take your chances when you buy something and then you want to go and try and change the zoning after the fact. Its not like they didnt know. And as far as the houses inhabited, there was a party there three weeks ago, the house in the back, for whatever its worth. So I dont know -. Do you understand what Im trying to say? SALAVEA:Yes, yes, yeah. BLACK:Okay. SALAVEA:Thank you. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Salavea? SALAVEA:No. I yield. ALAMEDA:Okay. Commissioner Springer, you had your hand up. Go ahead. SPRINGER:Yeah. Im wondering if the Planning Director might respond to some of the concerns that the testifier had brought up. When we previously heard this application, there was no public testimony. But the testifier today has brought up the issues of viewplanes, noise, nuisance, traffic burden at the intersection, loading of the intersection; and the question raised about the community development planning schedule. How should we take into consideration, or do you have any suggestions for us when the value of community plans is recognized, it has been espoused by the administration but might not be happening in a timely fashion for citizens such as the testifier today? YUEN:Well, theres a -. You went through a list of things. The first project thats being complained about was the office building which had been zoned in either the late eighties or early the nineties, it was never developed and came to the Planning Commission, and ultimately to the Council for a time extension of existing zoning. We did recommend the time extension. It wasnt a question of a new zoning. And the difficulty with the protecting the viewplane of an individual from their, say they have a back window of their house, over a piece of what had been a vacant property. Im not sure what the zoning of that had -. It was probably a residential zone before it became a commercial zone. And were talking about the other office building. BLACK:It was RS-10. 10EXHIBIT A