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the State and their observations, as well as independent. And so it’s a license to operate, and they are
<br />relatively limited in number.
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<br />KERN: Thank you.
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<br />AU: Mr. Chair?
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<br />MOSES: Mr. Chair?
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<br />ONO: Mr. Chairman?
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<br />KERN: Commissioner Au, Commissioner Moses, and it looks like Commissioner Ono would like to
<br />ask questions. Commissioner Au?
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<br />AU: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question about your traffic, and maybe you might want to bring
<br />your traffic engineer up. But during the construction project, the construction phases of any project,
<br />you know, there’s substantial amount of traffic, in the beginning when they have to mobilize. And in
<br />your proposals or in the conditions you’re saying that once you go vertical -. So to me vertical is once
<br />you go, you know, your walls go up or whatever you’re using. So, you know, there is going to be site
<br />work. There will be slabs that have to be poured. There’s going to be a substantial amount of traffic
<br />during that period. And, in addition to that, once you go vertical and you start your construction, the
<br />traffic is going to be pretty bad there. And can you answer why you are waiting to go vertical?
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<br />STROUD: No, I think there may be a misunderstanding in terms. What we had asked for was that
<br />we’re able to construct the road improvements simultaneously with the grading and we’re saying
<br />before we go vertical, which meant we could grade for the slab, we could begin that process. But those
<br />would be concurrent activities. Given the fact that the equipment is going to be there on site for the
<br />grading, it just makes sense to have the equipment to do whatever we need to do on the road
<br />improvements, get those in. And so from a timing standpoint, the thought in talking with the engineers
<br />and the folks involved with that was that that would make a lot of sense. We can get those
<br />improvements done. We will be at a stage where, you know, the equipment has been there, it is
<br />working on the grading, it is still not a high-traffic point, or high-traffic in terms of the Bell Curve on
<br />the project. And then as we hit that, those improvements are done, and then we can begin to go
<br />vertical at that point. But we just picked the going vertical as still on the ground, still slab, still not
<br />tremendous amounts going on. The equipment that has to be there for grading has to be there to do the
<br />road work anyway, and so it just seemed like a logical approach to it.
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<br />AU: Okay, well, you know, that is my main concern. You know, traffic is going to be bad, you know,
<br />and everybody in this room can foresee how bad it is going to be when traffic, once it is mobilize.
<br />Once machines are there, it is going to be pretty bad. You know, I’d feel more comfortable about
<br />having the roadway improvements done first. And how would you feel about that?
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<br />STROUD: Honestly, I would like to be able to get the equipment on and do grading and road work at
<br />the same time, just because I will be mobilizing that equipment twice. I’ll bring it in, send it out, and
<br />then bring it in again. And so –. I've built lots, and lots, of these buildings, probably 20 of them plus
<br />over the last several years. And even though it sounds like a really big project, it is a single-story
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