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Um, so we will have to prove that we're doing it the right way. We just didn't want to spend thousands of dollars moving gravel for you guys to say no to the platting action. Okay, Matthew's dying to speak here. So, as she was saying, it used to be that it was common practice for regrading to be a condition of approval because that is a large investiture of money prior to getting board approval for a project. Recently, our legal department had come back and said the way code is specifically written, we weren't actually able to make it a condition.