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HENKEL: Good morning. Will you raise your right hands? Do you swear or affirm to tell the
<br />truth on this matter now before the Planning Commission?
<br />KERN: Yes.
<br />TORRISON: I do.
<br />HENKEL: Okay, then, please state your name and proceed.
<br />KERN: I'm Zendo Kern, a planning consultant. This is my client, Edward Torrison. And, yeah,
<br />here we are after the meeting's been continued. We had a, kind of gonna talk a little bit about
<br />the meeting we had with the surrounding property owners, then I'd like to give my client a
<br />chance to speak a little bit, and then I'll speak to the latest submittal that we just submitted which
<br />is a change to the, to the building.
<br />So, we had awe had the opportunity to meet with the surrounding property owners, and I'm
<br />very grateful that they, that they did take the time. It wasn't too hard to put together. Everybody
<br />was willing to meet. We met with four of them at Mr. Torrison's office, and we discussed, you
<br />know, we heard the issues. We discussed it. Unfortunately, we really couldn't find much
<br />compromise. You know, we talked about the concerns. They brought up concerns. We talked
<br />about `em, and I guess it's in my nature to always try to answer the concerns or fix `em, you
<br />know, and hearing it and understanding it. And, at the end of the day, and my feeling is, is that
<br />the surrounding property owners, they just don't want it. There's nothing that I could, that we
<br />could do. There's nothing that we could, you know, compromise or change to make it better. I
<br />feel that we have been doing that, addressing the concerns with, you know, right -turn in, right -
<br />turn out, minimizing the building, additional parking, etc., which in essence help address the
<br />concerns but it doesn't solve the problem.
<br />So, and we also met with one of the other property owners, Ms. Hall, at Starbucks, and it was a
<br />similar meeting. You know, we talked. It was, but it was kind of the same thing at the end of the
<br />day, we just, we just don't want the project. So, you know, we understand that. I completely
<br />get that and just really grateful for their time that they did take to meet and try to, try to hash it
<br />out and if there was a way to come to some other compromise. You know, obviously we'd be
<br />willing to do so, but, you know, here we stand.
<br />So, last time, my client was out of the country during the meeting, so I'd like to give him an
<br />opportunity to just kind of talk about the project and, you know, where he's coming from with it,
<br />how it transpired, etc., and then I will speak on the last submittal I just submitted. So, thank you.
<br />Mr. Torrison?
<br />TORRISON: All right. Thank you.
<br />KERN: Go ahead and state your name.
<br />TORRISON: Okay, yeah, Edward L. Torrison. Maybe just a quick overview of how I got the
<br />property and what I wanted to do with it.
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