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Honorable Leningrad Elarionoff, Chair and Members of the Committee on Planning COUNTY OF HAWAII Page 2 October 19, 2004 restaurants, and other service type establishments." To discourage "big box" retail activity, we suggest that paragraph "E" of the conditions be modified to read: "The maximum squaze footage of the commercial and office uses shall be 350,000 square feet. No single commercial business may contain more than 60,000 square feet in Qross floor azea." This condition would allow a large supermazket (Safeway at Prince Kuhio Plaza is about 36,000 square feet, Foodland at Pazker Ranch Center is about 39,000 square feet), but not a "big box" type store (the Hilo Wahnart and the Home Depot currently under construction aze about 133,000 squaze feet.) 2. Drainage. Currently, some drainage from the adjoining residential subdivisions to the north (between this property and Kaumana Dr.) flows into this property. The Crescent City Heights subdivision (Sub. 3886) and Omao St. subdivisions (Sub. 4225) were developed out of this property and the developer was allowed to drain those subdivisions onto the residual property that he still owned, which is now the subject of this project district rezoning application. In addition, the Hilo Boarding School Ditch flows into this property. This existing drainage should be continued. We therefore suggest adding an additional sentence to the end of pazagraph AA to read: "The subiect property shall continue to accommodate existing drainage from the adjoining subdivisions to the north, and from the Hilo Boardin¢ School Ditch." 3. Street Connections to Existing Subdivisions. I had previously recommended that there be no vehiculaz access from the existing side streets, because the residents might naturally be concerned about traffic cutting through their neighborhoods to get to the Ponahawai St. extension. These streets, such as Omao and Wiliwili St., aze narrow. Currently, these side-roads dead-end. We have re-evaluated this in the light of a policy to try to emphasize interconnectivity ofstreets. This policy provides alternate routes and reduces the need for everyone to use the main streets to get anywhere. It also promotes community integration. It appears likely that most of those who might want to use the side streets to get to the Ponahawai extension would be residents in the neighborhoods between Kaumana Dr. and the subject property, because residents who live further up Kaumana Dr. would most likely turn off at the Mohouli St. extension, then turn down Ponahawai