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Clopfers and then this new gift of land. We realize how lucky we are. We cherish it, as well as the surrounding community, and we hope that you too will agree that we have planned for another 50 years of concern about the environment, the kids that will be there, and I hope that whoever buys the property has kids and they can just run right across the street. Larry Wright: Is there anybody else that arrived late that would like to be duly sworn in and have a comment for the Commissioners? Hearing none, Chair Pelissier. Chair Pelissier: We have four recommendations from the Planning Director, and I will entertain a motion. Commissioner Jacobs: Before I say anything, I want to commend the Friends School community for their work that has been done, for the sensitivity to the land. Two and a half years working on this project compared to government is action is speedy indeed. I just had a couple of questions and I actually came here with a question about ball field lights, since that has been a sore point in other parts of the County. And I understand, Mr. Harvey, that you did say you would consider it a special use permit modification to add lights, but is there any reason that we wouldn't add as a condition that the addition of lights would constitute an automatic modification of the special use permit. Michael Harvey: If you wish to add that condition, that is obviously your purview. Commissioner Jacobs: I think I knew the law we would have to have the applicant agree. Michael Harvey: Correct, because it's a conditional use, but you can recommend. Commissioner Jacobs: It doesn't sound disagreeable, but I just wanted to raise that. I also had a question about the solid waste management plan submitted by the applicant. There's a reference on page 148, a memorandum from Solid Waste Management and one of the recommendations has to do with food waste and separating grease rendering. I just didn't see where that was followed through, and I looked at this, which we got separately, the Orange County Solid Waste Management Plan. I didn't see it, I probably just missed it, but how is that tracked? Michael Harvey: First I'm going to provide my answer to your question and let the applicant provide an answer obviously because it's their plan. What you have on page 128 is Jeff Scouten, who is with Orange County Solid Waste, his memorandum, which was dated 11/3/2011. We also have additional email traffic from Mr. Scouten concerning a second visit where some of his concerns were addressed. With respect to the separation of waste, I'm going to turn it over real quickly to Mr. Whitaker, but I believe most of Mr. Scouten, based on what I have read and what he and I have talked about, I believe most of his concerns have already been addressed and incorporated in the project. Tony Whitaker: There was considerable interchange between the Solid Waste staff: In doing the job that they do, they offer standard language that applies across the board to most facilities and then we sort through that and figure what is relevant to the facility that we're working on. We came to agreement with Mr. Scouten that the school does not have any cooking facilities. They don't have a cafeteria; they don't have those more conventional kinds of school cafeteria facilities, so there is no cooking in that regard. There is no generation of grease or those kinds of wastes. So, those standard provisions simply don't apply. Commissioner Jacobs: So you have no food waste to compost on campus, let alone cooking.