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YUEN: Yes, just that what we would expect to -. We have put on the record through the exhibits that you already received most of what the Department would like to say. Since this has come up as an issue on the question of the right to farm, the ability of people to make complaints when there is a Special Permit, we would offer some testimony about those issues specifically when it comes our time to offer testimony. I’ll be doing that. ALAMEDA: Okay, thank you. Applicant, anything else to add? Applicant, go ahead. CONVENTZ: I would like first to submit to this Commission that the typical eco- vacation nowadays is actually what people accepted in earlier years, may be most thinks of cows and horses and cows and the early chicken; and today we are more mechanized. We use on both sides of that boundary, Martinage as well as the intervenor, machines in the morning and throughout the day, and that might be from dawn to dusk, yes. And certainly, vacationers seeking such a vacation are aware that they are on a working farm because Martinage and Nunn the applicants really offer this as such. And certainly, the noises are on both sides; there are agricultural activities, the basic activities on both properties, they are no different than any place else. And I think if in that case something additional and hardship would be imposed on Martinage and Nunn, it would be actually a singling out under the rules. And it should also be pointed out that admittedly that in the past previous owners have had some illegal activities, and it is certainly buying the property for this kind of amount what we are spending today for property of this nature and size, it is quite a sacrifice to get -, without being forced to do that right away to all those places which caused the problems in the past, possibly they are going away. And as Mr. Martinage already pointed out, that their basic business is farm activity and both farmers work the farm, and do they ever, just as loud -. Actually the last three visits I had, they were louder than the neighbor; I didn’t hear a machine from the neighbor yet. I think the problem the intervenor has is actually a little bit overboard. And therefore, I don’t think in particular -, since they like each other, they work together with each other and they are buying his produce, whenever I say “they”, I mean the applicants, I don’t see really the problem. ALAMEDA: All right. Thank you. Just to remind us on the process again, so that’s supposedly the opening arguments. All right, so now it’s like testimony and we don’t actually have public testimony. So, applicant, do you have anything else to add or to provide, you know, in terms of witnesses, exhibits, other evidence? MARTINAGE: Just one fact that it is a five-bedroom home; and whether it’s a bed and breakfast or my family of five, those bedrooms would be full. And so the respect that would be applied to that would be what I would like to bring to the table. If I have two sons and their daughters come and I have my wife and it’s a holiday, I have more people that would ever be proposed in my bed and breakfast at my house. And so for that reason, we actually are managing it more than what it would be if it was just left as the property at the -. So I appreciate that consideration. ALAMEDA: Okay. Thank you for your testimony. Sir, anything else to add in terms of the testimony part of it? FARWELL: Only that the noise issue is, is somewhat infrequent, but nonetheless it is pronounced. I would say that if the five-bedroom bed and breakfast were in operation there, then EXHIBIT A 22