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the General Plan. 22. Public Access: The property is located more than 1,700 feet from the shoreline and mauka of other resort properties. Existing public accesses to and along the shoreline will not be impacted by the project. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND SERVICES 23. Access: The primary proposed access to the project site is from the Mamalahoa Highway Bypass. An existing permitted access connection is available on Mamalahoa Highway Bypass for the property and lands mauka of the Kona Country Club Golf Course. This access connection coincides with an existing unsignalized, channelized intersection and the location of a portion of the project site. The applicant proposed to improve the access from the highway intersection to the proposed residential portion of the project site. The Department of Public Works recommended the construction of a collector roadway from the Mamalahoa Highway Bypass to the project access to County dedicable standards and Condition F of the subject ordinance reflected this requirement. The application indicated that the required roadway construction was complete, although the improvements have not yet been dedicated to the County. However, according to DPW, there are outstanding `punch lists' from the DPW Engineering and Traffic Divisions that need to be satisfied to deem construction complete and eligible for roadway dedication to the County. Condition E of the subject change of zone Ordinance requires plans submitted for Final Plan Approval reflect a minimum ten (10) -foot wide emergency evacuation access route that extends from the project's easterly boundary, through the existing golf course and up to any point along Alii Drive. The emergency access route is required to be improved to an unpaved road, but reasonably compact enough to accommodate vehicles leaving the project site and an access easement recorded prior to issuance of Certificate of Occupancy for the first residential unit within the project area. This emergency access is reflected in the site plan for the proposed 29 -unit development. 24. Traffic: The applicant submitted two (2)Traffic Assessments (TA), conducted by Austin, Tsutsumi & Associates for both the current proposed 29 -dwelling unit residential development as well as a TA for a larger, 60 -dwelling unit development currently entitled by density and SMA Use Permit for the project site. According to the latter TA, "The trip -5-