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WATANABE: Sixty. DOMINGO: Sixty, 60 days. So that would be forwarded to the Council with a negative recommendation by the Planning Commission. TORIGOE: Right. That’s essentially what the rule says. DOMINGO: Okay. So you know, I think the critical question of the matter is where are we on the time clock. HAYASHI: Okay. The -. GRAHAM: Mr. Hayashi? HAYASHI: The Director’s recommendation was forwarded to the Planning th Commission on July 11. So that’s the date that you have received it. That being the case, if th you take 60 days, then action should have been taken by September 11. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Hayashi -. YUEN: Let me, let me lay out what the issue is here -. GRAHAM: All right. Mr. Yuen. YUEN: And I do think that in this case I would turn to the Planning Commission’s counsel to tell us the proper legality of the procedure. The issue that counsel is raising is whether the, clearly under the – and the ordinance, by the way, the ordinance is the same as the Rules; the Zoning Code has the same procedure as the Planning Commission Rules – clearly under both the ordinance or the Planning Commission Rules, when an applicant landowner initiates a change to the Zoning Code, the applicant landowner can consent to the Planning Commission keeping the matter there beyond 90 days and not sending it up to the Council. The rule does not, both the rule and the ordinance don’t expressly say that of a Planning Director initiated amendment. For the record, my view is that the Planning Director can consent to keep a matter at the Planning Commission beyond the 60 days. And again for the record, I would th consent that this matter be kept at the Planning Commission for action at the January 11 meeting. I would not consent to a time period beyond that. There is also sort of a subsidiary question of whether you count periods of a voluntary deferral against the 60 days or 90 days. My view is that you -, it’s not really that critical because, as I said, either the Planning Director can consent to extend the time beyond the 60 days or not; if the Planning Director can, then I th would, as I just said, consent to extend it to January 11 for the Planning Commission to consider this and, to consider the rezoning aspect of it and make a decision on the merits before sending it up to the County Council, but not beyond that. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Yuen. I would also like to just say to the public who’s here today, this is all kind of meticulous legal kind of back-and-forth we are doing, which doesn’t probably make very good listening on your part, but it’s important, it’s important that we do it in a public arena. So maybe you want to take a break, maybe you want to keep listening, EXHIBIT A 14