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If Wayne or somebody looked at that, they did not realize that the property line stopped right at the very edge of the garage. It did not go over to the next fence beyond. There is no way that the City of Pleasanton, I believe, can legally require the Sariches, under the Specific Plan, to give up their existing residence and their existing garage and barn in order to build the additional new residence that they were promised or were provided. You have to ask yourself, why did we put "generally" in there? We could have said "exactly," but that was not the intent. We wanted that flexibility. When you look at Table 4-2 and look at the standards for Hillside Residential on page 25, you will see that they talk about a minimum lot size of 40,000 square feet, just about one acre. There is not 40,000 square feet there. The lot is 150 feet wide - it's a circle. The development standards call for a minimum lot width of 150 feet, a minimum lot depth of 150 feet. They didn't talk about a circle that's 150 feet wide. We knew that these were going to be large lots. Now, our architect here has looked at whether it is feasible to build a house on the site where the dot was and still keep the existing residence in place. And it is possible to build a potentially 2,700-square-foot house there. But again, that is not the intent; we are not talking about building a production house like Greenbriar is building down below. These are estate-size lots, 19 of them, in the Corridor, and the intent is that we are going to put some houses there that would fit with the size of the lots. I am going to pass out to you an analysis of this, and I will have our architect, John McInnis, talk to you about it. It is not feasible to build this house here, and it is unreasonable to ask the Sariches to remove an existing residence and to give up an existing hillside residential right that they have because somebody put the dot slightly off. Those of you that have been up there through the site saw that, and I would encourage any of you who have not been up there yet to allow us to take you up there. Mr. McInnis: Thank you, Tom. Okay. I have shown the existing residence, which is one-story - 2,885 square feet -and sits roughly on a pad that's 18,000 square feet. Adjacent to it is the barn and garage, where someone is suggesting we put the estate on. Part of that barn and garage are actually within the 20-foot setback. What I tried to do is show you that it could not work, not that we can do it. So, we enlarged that pad by moving a retaining wall to the back of that proposed residence, add afour-foot wall - that is really an eight-foot wall -and we put athree-car garage with a little turn-around so that you can head back out and go back down the hill. We still had to provide a 60-foot diameter for the fire truck. This allowed, on the view side of the house, 22 feet, which is their backyard -not room for a pool. The main floor of the house would be a 1,470-square-foot, three-car garage. The upper floor, by the time, I provide a few square feet - 300 or so square feet for terraces and some one stories so I can bury the height of the house - I get a total of 2,700 square feet, almost a 2,800-square-foot house, which is even smaller than the one-story house. This is something that we investigated with Greg and Brian, actually, and to step the house up. But the point is, is that it is really visible, and if you go out there and you stand 13