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GIFFIN: First of all, I’d like to say that I really appreciate the people who testified. Some of you I know, some of you I don’t know even though I’ve lived in the community for over 40 years. But I do appreciate your comments and they are really well taken, in particular, Mr. Kim’s comments. The reason I bring him up is because -.Mr. Caitano, you said you received the background report and the recommendation? CAITANO JR.: Yes. CAITANO SR.: Yes, the recommendation for denial? GIFFIN: Yes. CAITANO SR.: Yes. GIFFIN: I wondered if you would take out the goldenrod copy that I have in front of me, which is the recommendation, and turn to Page 2. MIKKELSON: We actually received ours by email -. GIFFIN: Oh, so it’s not color, okay, I get it. If you turn to Page 2, Mr. Caitano, you’ll see midway, or maybe from the beginning, you’ll see, “The use would adversely affect surrounding properties and substantially alter or change the essential character of the land and the present use.” The next paragraph below it, there is a summary of why the Director has recommended denial, and there were specifically three that she brings up. The first one is the increase of traffic. And I think that Mr. Kim said something about traffic and he pointed out that the road where it was in relationship to that road has traffic, especially during peak traffic time. The second reason that the Director mentions is, creating noise. And in addition to the traffic, Mr. Kim did mention noise, and I think your son mentioned the surrounding animals and those things making more noise, they felt, than your proposed business. The third reason was what was described in the paragraph above, which is in essence substantially changing the rural character of the land and its present use. I wondered if you could go into more detail about those three reasons and why those reason are not such big reasons for denial in your opinion. To me, that will really help us in making the decision. Not that I’m minimizing anybody else who gave public testimony prior, but we need to go back to the reasons why the Director is recommending denial. CAITANO SR.: Yes. Noise level, the biggest thing about automotive shop is a compressors running, impact tools going off all day long. Our compressor is situated in an enclosed structure. It’s brand new, so it’s not a clunker compressor. It’s on demand use, on and off switch, in other words, when he needs the air, he turns it on; the rest of the day it’s off and it doesn’t run. Typically, he would charge his compressor in the morning. The compressor is big enough to sustain his work throughout the day. The compressor would not be running after that. That is the biggest noise that he would be making in the shop. I would be more worried about his radio, but that’s another thing. I can get him to turn the volume down on the radio. CAITANO JR.: I’d like to extend on that a little. My dad doesn’t know that there’s a few technical things about, as far as the compressor. I researched quite a bit before purchasing the compressor. It’s a two-stage pump unit cast iron which -. In the olden days the single-stage units were the ones that you hear as you pass commercial buildings that are really, really loud –they often shake metal structures just charging up. This two-stage unit creates less than 69 decibels. With the surrounded 9 EXHIBIT A