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BOWMAN: And in the back where you store the extra cars, that’s gravel, right? DELUZ: Yes, it is. BOWMAN: And you have no thoughts of paving or anything. DELUZ: Well, that’s another expense. And we, if we had more time there, probably we would want to pave it. But right now, no it’s still gravel. BOWMAN: Yeah, it just appears to me that paving in concrete commitsthe land to a certain type of use. That’s just my comment. MOOERS: One thing: the photographs unfortunately don’t show very well – I used to do this in color, but I found that by the time they got to you guys, there was no color, that they just would make black and white copies of the application booklets – but the vast majority of that property is in active agricultural use. And so that whole southern section, and if you recall in the application there is a drawing showing the areas that are in Low Density Urban and then the areas in Important Ag, all there is in Important Ag is in an active agriculture. So that’s really only the portion up by the road that has the warehouse and the improvements. And if you look at the site plan, it’s in the application, you notice that only that small area up by the road has been disturbed, but the balance of the property is actively farmed. BOWMAN: Okay, and just for clarification, I guess the last picture, “Agricultural Area on Southern Portion of the Subject Property,” so that’s all like little cabbages or lettuce or something back there. DELUZ: Correct, yes. BOWMAN: Okay, yeah, it doesn’t -. Thank you for clarifying that, because it appears that it’s a barren long strip of land. MOOERS: I know. If it were in color, it would have been better. But years ago I quit doing color because by the time it got to the decision makers, whether it’s the Commission or the Council, you know, we were like three generations of photographs that have been copied and they were just, you know, it doesn’t justify the expense. BOWMAN: Thank you. HOUSEL: Any other questions? Commissioner Giffin. GIFFIN: Greg, somewhere, I don’t know if it was in the background report or a part of the recommendation, there was some discussion about why the term was for three years, and it had something to do with looking for suitable property elsewhere. MOOERS: Right. Previous to this application, the client, Mr. DeLuz, had acquired property in Haina and was considering moving his auto body repair shop there. And at that time he was under the impression that, because it was part of the old mill area, that it was industrial in use and industrially zoned. And then as they started moving forward, it became apparent that it was not; it was,I believe, residential. So that use was not permitted there. So that foreclosed that option for 5 EXHIBIT B