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clear that what they’re proposing to do will essentially be what’s happening on the property. So it’s not like tomorrow if they want to sell the property they want to put up a gas station or like a Wiki-Wiki Mart operation that they can unilaterally do that. They would not be able to do that without coming back before this Commission and the County Council and having that condition lifted, and at which time the community and the Commission and the public, broader public, would be in a position to weigh in on it. So I would like to make that suggestion and hopefully the Commission can favorably consider this application. ALAMEDA: Very good. Questions? Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA: Yes. Thank you, Sidney, for offering up that wording and that possible condition because I have been sort of going back and forth in my mind about this one. On the one hand, you know, the one blue dot in the sea of yellow, and my concerns about strip malls and how, then what happens between the blue dot and the pink square that would be in-filled; and in- fill can keep going forever, you know. On the other hand, it is what we, when we’re talking abut reducing traffic and neighborhoods and everything, we’re talking about putting the kind of services like a beauty parlor so that people and the residents can just walk to there and not have to use their cars. And I think that I would be willing to support this with a condition the way you spelled it out and -. Otherwise I would tend away from supporting it because that’s part of my big concern, is that, and always is with these types of things, is that people might start off with something very nice, and she’s a nice person and she has a lot of friends and people who support her, and yet things happen in life, we all know that. Things happen in life, the unexpected should be expected. Then she may have to sell the property, something may happen and she has to leave and somebody else buys it, it’s already zoned commercial. We know it, you know, we know it happens there; and anything can go up which may be totally inappropriate, but then we have no recourse. So I think that if we have an opportunity to have recourse now and be proactive on this, I think we should grab it.And I hope that you, did you write down that or can you -? FUKE: It’s actually contained in the letter that I think the applicant had submitted th to the Commission dated November 10. I only -. SIRACUSA: Okay, so we can just refer to that -. FUKE: Except that I did add another, it could have been a superfluous condition, sentence, but I just added “any other uses would be subject to an amendment of this condition,” just to make it explicit that, and have that condition be made part of any CC&Rs or deed covenants so that any future buyer would be well aware that if they want to have a use other than what’s, you know, personal services use, they would have to seek an amendment SIRACUSA: Okay. I like that. And if somebody makes, decides to make the motion to support this I hope that they will make it with, referring to Sidney’s stated condition; and then I would be able to support it. ALAMEDA: Thank you, Commissioner Siracusa. Other questions? Commissioner Watanabe? EXHIBIT B 7