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1 and when you begin to compare it as an example with
2 Montage and your architect in Laguna worked with, you
3 have an enormous understaffing if what has been
4 presented is accurate.
5 So I'd like you to address it. I don't
6 know -- if it weren't a five-star hotel, that would be
7 one condition, but why don't you address that concern.
8 MR. MIDDLEBROOK: I will. And Mr. Caruso
9 will speak to the employee count in one minute. I'd
10 also just like to go back. There's been -- I understand
11 that this -- the number of employees on our property
12 goes back to the issue of adequate parking.
13 And I think we have gone through in great
14 detail, and I can go through it again today sort of the
15 analysis we have onsite in terms of the adequacy of our
16 parking. I think it was a very important analysis that
17 was provided by staff in terms of relation to the
18 Biltmore and the fact that they have almost twice the
19 restaurant seating, more ballroom seating, more hotel
20 rooms, a beach club that is twice the size of ours, and
21 nearly 100 fewer parking spaces than we do and the
22 property still operates.
23 So we can speak to the employee issue, but
24 with respect to parking and that concern, I think under
25 any scenario the parking that we are proposing to
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