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Dear Ms. Turkatte, It late October of last year we met with members of SJC Staff to discuss issues relating to our application for a Use Permit for a Religious Assembly development to be located at 9698 S Priest Road in French Camp. Present at the meeting was Mr. Shih of EHD who commented that each of the proposed congregate residences would require its own OWTS. When asked about this Mr. Shih said he would provide us with the pertinent regulations which he did soon after the meeting. However, Mr. Shih cited Section 5 of the SJC OWTS Standards which pertains to residential developments involving non- transient,habitable structures. Our project is neither and is clearly to be regulated under the Commercial portions of the OWTS, Section 6. Section 5 of the SJC OWTS Standards applies to residential developments relating to single and multi-family homes that provide habitable structures for non-transient, household uses that are typically places of permanent residency. Conversely, our proposal is, in part, for transient congregate residences as defined by the California Building Code which are intended to provide sleeping quarters only for those persons attending meditation retreats. Retreats are either 3 or 10 days in length each of which will be offered a maximum of 5 times per year. According to the SJC Development Title our application is for a non-residential use and therefore is required to be regulated by Section 6 of the SJC OWTS Standards. Attached is a memo that was prepared more than one month ago and sent to Mr. Kith of EHD detailing our understanding of this issue. As per our last conversation with Mr. Kith he agreed to review the memo with other Staff but to date there has been no reply. The lack of a substantive response to our memo only further delays our Use Permit application resulting in unnecessary hardships to our Clients. At this point in time we would like to schedule an appointment with you to resolve this issue as soon as possible.