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SPRINGER: We can bring this question up to him at that time. THROPP: Okay. SPRINGER: We can take notes on your questions for him. THROPP: So just continuing on, I'd just like to say that we have a very peaceful neighborhood. The traffic flow -. They have everyone coming into this access, There's only one way out there at the top, and they intend to use Hienaloli to get out either to Aloha Kona Drive to go to the bottom or Nam Kailua to the single traffic light at the bottom. And 43 lots, that's going to at least be 80 cars, averaging two per house. And I just think that the design and the density of it is really outrageous and it doesn't have -. The whole concept of the circle and these two tee roads with these people stranded in the middle, I think there must be some kind of law with Civil Defense for evacuation or emergency vehicles, how they would -, in case there was a brush fire, an earthquake, how would these people get out? They would be trapped inside as far as I'm concerned. I would like to say that that -, when I saw this design, this plan, that's the first thing I noticed. How are these people going to get out of there if there's a brush fire or an earthquake or something? We have many tremors on this hillside. I've been there 11 years. My house is right on Lopeka Place but I'm to the outside, to the right, to the south a little bit. Yeah, a little bit farther up, right there, and we bought our home -. Thank you. We bought our home there 1 I years ago. And this Hienaloli Road is just a blacktop access road now, and to have all these cars coming in and out of that one little, that one little d entrance there I think is very bizarre and very dangerous, in fact. And not to mention the amount of cars that would be coming in and out and using the single traffic light at the bottom of the hill in the morning and coming up in the afternoon trying to get home to this neighborhood, highly densely packed neighborhood. So my point is that the design of Kona Heights, the whole -, with Aloha Kona Drive, are all cul- de-sacs, sweeping cul-de-sacs, you can see two of them on the map there, which all the houses have great access. You can tum around, they're very safe. A fire track can come in and tum around and access all the houses. The police can come in. We have neighborhood watch. This high density plan with this one access road going out I think is very dangerous. SPRINGER: Thank you. THROPP: And I don't agree with the plan and I am very against it and I want to say that. And I testified to the one that was approved off of Melelina at the last conference that went through, and I missed out on the bottom one, but it seems like each landowner is trying to skirt the law and making this whole neighborhood in pieces so that they don't have to follow any of the rules or the legal situation. And as this gentleman to my right pointed out, to build a high density neighborhood like this with no road out or no suitable road out, I think is very foolish. It's like the cart before the horse. I mean why would you build 43 homes, highly densely packed like that and not have a way out to the highway, a suitable way out or in, for that matter? Because that Hienaloli Road does not go out to Henry Street or anywhere else, it just goes south to the right and it's a very small, simple road, it's not a major street. 13