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The next photographs that I’d like to submit to you show the further parking areas and the
<br />uneven conditions that are presented there, and these are the last set of photographs that I’m
<br />going to distribute to the Commission. Thank you, Mr. Darrow, and Mr. Darrow I think has
<br />provided you with the photograph of the roadway that’s inundated with water, and that
<br />photograph was taken—February? February of 2000—oh no I’m sorry, it was January, January
<br />of 2014. So, all the photographs were taken in January of 2014.
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<br />I should note that, you know, it’s not easy to be a person who intervenes in an application like
<br />this. She really is, and it’s very true, her participation and her interests are not represented by
<br />other parties. She’s really been going at this alone. In some of the photographs that I’m showing
<br />you, you’re gonna notice that there’s a water catchment system in the photograph and there’s
<br />spray paint on it. There have been offensive things spray painted on that water catchment system
<br />about Ms. Tita, and it has occurred around the time that she started making formal inquiries into
<br />the safety issues that she’s been trying to address with the Association. In particular, I think it
<br />was “Susann Tita eats ass.” And that has also been spray painted in other areas of the
<br />subdivision. So, you know, she has been going at this pretty much alone, trying to get headway
<br />with making people and the Association on her own understand, that in order to proceed on a
<br />Special Permit amendment like this, you need to be in compliance with the County Code, you
<br />need to be in compliance with the permit application itself, you have to address the serious safety
<br />concerns. I believe that had the, had the County not issued its warning letter about the farmers
<br />market in 2012 that the Association would never have come forward for the application for this
<br />amendment. It would have continued on, utilizing the property’s--doing what it wanted to do on
<br />its own, and not complying with any of the Code provisions or the rules that most people have to
<br />follow when utilizing buildings to ensure—and it’s really about ensuring safety, and making sure
<br />that people are safe and getting the full benefit of the areas that they live in. It’s a shame that the
<br />process has been so, so uncomfortable for everybody because I think what would be best is that
<br />the whole community there be able to come to an agreement on utilizing the space and doing it
<br />safely and correctly. But, if you don’t grant her, her Petition, I am very afraid that you will also
<br />be ignoring your own Planning Commission rules that specify that when a permit has lapsed, it’s
<br />done. And we’re not talking about, you know, an inadvertent like ten days, we forgot to do it, or
<br />you know, we’re talking about like a 16-year lapse. And, I don’t understand why that matter was
<br />not addressed by the Planning Director’s letter to you or his Recommendation, but I think it, if it,
<br />it should have been like the first, to me the first item that got addressed by the Planning Director,
<br />okay? Because, there’s a clear rule that says they’re supposed to come forward, and they didn’t.
<br />So, I’m going to turn the microphone over to Ms. Tita so you can hear from her now.
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<br />TITA: Yes, my name is Susann Tita. I think Ms. Kawauchi has really put forth a good
<br />itemization of the, the problem, the situation it is. However, by not following up on this permit,
<br />the Board of Directors has put all of the property owners in a very bad position because the
<br />property is still listed as a residential—a one bedroom residential unit. It should not be operating
<br />as a community center. If there is something that would occur or someone gets hurt or anything
<br />involved with this farmers market, the entire community is going to absorb the liability of that
<br />because the insurance is not gonna cover that. The insurance has already been cancelled once
<br />due to the fact that they received a cease and desist from the County. The insurance was not
<br />aware that there was a farmers market operating. They were not covered for that. So now, if this
<br />insurance company were to find out that this permit is not current and expired, then it puts the
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