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to create kind of a community. Where you get to know your neighbors, you see your neighbors walk into their units, you get a chance to interact, and I think, it tries to create a congenial neighborhood. Well, when we started looking at this project, we're trying to determine do we do it as a senior project or a family project or a mix. So, what we did the market study. What the market studies showed was that for the Hilo area, which is basically the City of Hilo there's a need for about 6,000 low-income units or affordable units and put it that way. Out of the 6,000 units the site won't be able to attract all of them, and so it kind of came down to maybe something in the range of 700 units would be possible. But there were 700 households to who may be interested in being on this site and by that mix was really like about 100 to 600 in terms of seniors to families. In other words, there's a much bigger need for family units then there are for senior units. Part of that I think is because we developed 182 senior units Just down the street. So, that sort of informed us as to what we should be doing so, we ended up with basically a one- third senior, two thirds family that's basically the mixture we're proposing. As part of this, we started out with the intention and sticking with it, this intention of having a 30-foot setback along the Sunrise Estate side. Now RM-4 zoning I believe calls for 15-foot front yard rear yard setback and an 8-foot setback on the side for a I story structure. But in the light of the fact that Sunrise Estates has a 30-foot setback by code, we've decided we're going to do the same on our side. The community requested that we do a fence along there, they're concerned about security and typically, we do put fences around our projects for security of our tenants. So, we're proposing to do that, and we plan to utilize this 30-foot setback area as landscape buffer area as an area where we have walking paths, recreation area and if we can put a dog park in there. Basically, so that the residents can have use of the property and you'll have a variety of recreational outlets. We did look at the traffic, we had a terrific study done in November of last year. It was an odd time because of the Covid situation, but they took some historic traffic counts, and I think the key thing in terms of traffic impact is what traffic is being generated by the project. So, the calculations of the traffic engineers, is that in the morning peak which I believe is something like seven to eight o'clock in the morning, there'll be thirty-eight (3 8) cars or vehicles leaving our site being generated by our site and of those they expect seven (7) to be turning mauka. The overwhelming traffic flow is coming out of Kupuna Place and "—" makai. In the afternoon, it's a little lower count it's like twenty-four(24) vehicles will be coming out of the project and their projection is only two (2) will be turning mauka. So, we don't believe that there will be a significant traffic impact on Kokfiau Street and the traffic study did show that all intersections will be at acceptable levels of service. One of the things with this traffic is when we were developing the lower projects Mohouli Senior projects, as well as the Adult Day Center we felt that there may be a need at some point to have a traffic signal put on Kupuna Place. We talked to the traffic engineer and chief engineer about that and Ron Thiel who was the Head of Traffic Division at that time. We just asked him what it would take, and he said well, it'll cost him about a half a million dollars to buy the equipment and the County at that time was able to install the equipment themselves if it came to that. So, 'NC pl-OVICICCI five-hundred thousand dollars ($500,000,00) vdilch Public Works should still have 7 EXHIBIT D(DRAFT)