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DEFRANCO: Sorry, I just need to disclose that I am a friend of Clinton Hinchcliff, and we are
<br /> neighbors in a work area in the new industrial area. I feel that, even though we have a
<br /> friendship, that I can vote, you know, in a good way, in a neutral way and understanding, and in
<br /> a fair way.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Okay, mahalo. In following up the question from Commissioner Knowles to
<br /> Robyn, Department of Public Works, could you give us a critical path for the construction of
<br /> these intersection improvements? In the documents it indicated that the next step that was
<br /> needed was an updated traffic impact analysis report.
<br /> MATSUMOTO: Yeah, that would be good because of the timing, you know,but it, so to justify
<br /> that there is a need for a traffic signal at this time, right? So after that's completed, and if it does
<br /> recommend that one is needed at this time or within the next 10 years, right, because they
<br /> forecast for 10 years and 20-year forecast, then they determine if, you know, are we going to
<br /> have the money to do the design work, right? As part of the design work you have to probably
<br /> do, you know, environmental assessment,because you are going to want to, you know, probably
<br /> widen that intersection just based on the configuration it's at right now; it's kind of, you know,
<br /> it's definitely not a straight T, so that's going to have to be taken into consideration, you know.
<br /> If you are going to have to widen it, it's going to have to be, there is going to have to be a
<br /> subdivision done as well for, you know, acquiring more land in the corners, and then the design
<br /> work for the traffic signal and then construction. I can't tell you how long it would take, though,
<br /> maybe two years approximately.
<br /> VITOUSEK: So, looking at a TIAR, Environmental Assessment, acquisition of land, design,
<br /> and construction, that 600,000 is not going to go very far.
<br /> MATSUMOTO: No. But I mean that's to say if, yeah, if we are only going to use the 600,000,
<br /> right, that'll just be a portion of the design work, and the State and County or whatever other
<br /> funding would have to come up with the rest of the money for the design, as well as the money
<br /> for construction of the intersection. I do know that if we get federal funds, we have to do I think
<br /> a NEPA, so it's a little more detail oriented environmental assessment, so, you know, that would
<br /> affect also the timing and the cost.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Which, but that would sort of dovetail with the 343 EA—
<br /> MATSUMOTO: Yeah, it just, it just costs more money.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Got you.
<br /> MATSUMOTO: Yeah.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Okay, also would trigger the Section 106 requirements. But my question is—well,
<br /> I guess we have a problem where there's cumulative impacts from subdivisions like this in an
<br /> area that was initially intended to be 20 acres. As it has come down, we've in some cases tripled
<br /> the density without improving the infrastructure. A lot of that's done already. And there has
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