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Going to the grocery store, the post office, the drugstore, the Old Airport Park, or just driving to work in this area is a daily knuckle-clenching ordeal. Here's a perfect example: My daughter takes dance class 3 times a week at 4:30 in the afternoon. I drop her off at dance class and go back to my office at Coldwell Banker Aloha Properties in Hualalai Center (about 1 '/z miles). It takes me 35 minutes to drive those &ve blocks. While I'm sitting in the grid lock, I read my mail!! Why not, I'm not going anywhere; it's like being pazked on a highway. Why should a developer such as Nani Kona Kai which is zoned Ag-5 and Ag-1 be allowed to do 44 lots? Where is it written that just because property is now designated Unplanned, it can automatically be developed to a higher density than its existing zoning? In this azea, supplying a road to the property or widening the old railroad bed will not relieve anything. 441ots mean a minimum of 88 more cazs, and the impact on the main road going through Kailua View Estates will be disastrous, but the real problem starts when those lot owners come down to the now grid locked Queen K. As additional already approved units (see below) come on line, this trafficked azea will become a death zone. Possibly with a future mauka road and further lateral relief that actually connects to someplace, then this property could be further down-zoned, but for now, it's just a bad idea that will cause absolute chaos and degradation to Kailua View Estates and Kona Heights. Here are some of the recent impacts to this area within 2 miles that have been approved, aze built, and/or in the process of being built just within the last two years: 400 Condos approved for Hualalai Village. 50 are constructed 298 Homes approved for Pualani off of Hualalai and the Queen K Extension 88 Homes approved for Kahakai Estates with ongoing construction 295 Units at Kona Sea Ridge Even the real estate brokers can't keep up with the names and numbers of all the new developments. The above units represent an impact of over 1,000 units built, or being built in a tiny little azea; this means approximately 2,000 more vehicles. I have been a real estate broker in Kona for 24 years and I can name the list of road improvements to this area on one hand (and that includes the removal of the down truck lane on Palani Road). We aze truly on a collision course of impractical rezoning with no serious road improvements. Until Kona has a serious plan for dealing with its traffic mess, the Planning Department needs to exercise it power and disallow any more lots in the area around Borders and Wall Mart. Sincerely - istine Van Pernis Realtor-Broker (R/GRI) Coldwell Banker Aloha Properties kristinev~a hawaii.rr.com CC: Planning Department Members