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FUKE:I didnÓt do the traffic study so -. But I would imagine just reading it, Commissioner Springer, that that relates to the average dela SPRINGER:Mr. Chairman, we have discussion on the application itself now, or would you like to wait for a motion on the matter? GALDONES:If you would like to raise any questions for clarification of the Applicant or the staff, weÓll do that. But if itÓs to debate the issue then weÓll wait till we have the motion. SPRINGER:IÓll wait. Thank you. GALDONES:Okay. Any further -. Mr. Yuen? YUEN:If there arenÓt any, I did want to say some, speak to the Commission just a bit about our recommendation that we made here. We had been recommending that the Commission defer action on this until the Council acted in order to reduce the possibility for conflict between the two actions. At the last meeting it was quite clear that the Commission wanted to go ahead and vote on t the vote on the request for deferral was five-to-one against. Rather than continue to be overly stubborn on this point, we are now issuing a recommendation. It is part of our job to make recommendations to the Commission. And if the Commission does not want to keep deferring the matter as far as the SMA Permit, then thatÓs fine, then we would issue this recommendation. We are making the recommendation for appro Just to speak for a moment about the relationship between the rezoning and the SMA Permit, if the Council does not pass the zoning, then the SMA Permit, if granted by the Commission, would be of no effect. If the Council did pass the zoning, but then the Commission denied the SMA Permit, youÓd have a piece of property thatÓs zoned but cannot yet be developed because they have no SMA Permit. There would be a waiting period to reapply for the SMA Permit. The Commission can pass an SMA Permit that has fewer units than allowed by the zoning, and it can also pass an SMA Permit that has more conditions that are protective of the environment or cultural sites, historic sites and the like, than are contained in the rezoning ordinance, as long as that limitation and those conditions are tied to things in the SMA law. The SMA is a separate layer of protection beyond the zoning. So in considering an SMA Permit, we have to, there are things that we have to look at; and those may cause the Commission to decide to restrict the project beyond what was allowed by the zoning or to put additional conditions on the project at that time. So the major difference between the recommendation that weÓve ma ApplicantÓs request is the number of hotel rooms. The basic reasons for recommending approval are that this is an area that has been identified in the General Plan for urban development and the current Heavy Industrial 9