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<br />PEEBLES: The -. <br /> <br />ONO: But, anyway let me finish. So I have a problem accepting that as an argument. The other <br />one I have a concern is that you also mentioned that this is a small community, and you’re right, I <br />believe that neighbors know each other. But if the parking is a problem, it may not, I may be <br />wrong on this, but it may not be neighbors, it may be outside people that do not recognize that <br />this is a problem with us with regard to our kids. Because if the swap meet is, it’s like an activity, <br />I mean you know, it’s a festive activity. So kids are going to be there, I’m almost sure of that. <br />They go with their parents, they go with their mothers. I mean it’s a shopping day, I guess. So I <br />guess the concern for safety is not so much the neighbors that are participating or are not <br />concerned, it’s the outsiders that would be doing this off-street parking and they don’t get the <br />message every week. This note that you delivered you said was fairly effective, I liked the note. <br />But is it going to be an every week thing? Are you going to be passing that out every week? Is <br />that going to be consistent? I don’t think so because it’s going to, you know -. I don’t know <br />because in terms of time and effort to do these things. So if the community wants the swap meet <br />and if it’s going to cost the vendors to provide the security, I’m more inclined to think that the <br />safety of the participants is more important to me than the cost in the raising the vendor’s fee. If <br />it’s going to take that to provide a, I guess for want of a better word, a parking attendant, I would <br />think that the vendors should be made aware that this is a concern – the safety of the participants, <br />their customers. Thank you. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Thank you, Commissioner Ono. Any further questions? <br /> <br />PEEBLES: When she was -. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Use the mike, please. <br /> <br />PEEBLES: When she was giving her presentation she said she thought she might have a solution. <br /> Could we hear that? <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Yeah. Okay, go ahead. <br /> <br />WESTERVELT: Having written the updated permit and studied the parking situation there, <br />there are three parking lots, major parking lots that end up supporting the flea market, swap meet <br />area. And you’re not ever going to change people’s natural behavior to want to pull over to the <br />shoulder, even if there’s a no parking sign there, even if they just drove past somebody in a <br />brightly colored vest. There’s people who still want to park on the shoulder very close to the <br />market where they don’t have to cross the road, jump out of the vehicle, get their stuff, get back <br />in their cars, and drive off. The next closest thing that everybody sees is the way the public takes <br />over the County Hele On park and ride lot every Saturday morning. That is across the street. <br />That is the street that people are walking across to and from the County lot; and we cannot put a <br />person out there and say don’t turn into the Hele On lot, that’s a public space. So in a way the <br />point of putting somebody out there to control traffic is suggesting exactly this. Can’t argue with <br />13 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br /> <br />