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Honorable Councilpersons Pilago and Hoffman March 11, 2005 Page 2 such as a supermarket, restaurant, or gas station, having shift workers. At its height, the complex should have about 54 or 2/3's of the total projected number of employees. Of these 54 employees, the applicant estimates that at least 25% or 14 will come from the housing projects within the subject azea or the immediate neighborhoods, many of whom would probably walk. About 4 or 10% of the 40 employees are projected to carpool, resulting in a total of 36-38 new trips to this area. The balance of the traffic is estimated to be from vehicles already on the road traveling north or south. Using November 2001 counts, the traffic study noted that the AM and PM peak hour volumes along this sector of the Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway were 2,059 and 2,282, respectively. b. I am also enclosing a copy of a regional map, which identifies the subject properties relative to the existing and developing subdivisions in this area. A full-sized version of this map was shazed with your committee at its last meeting. As you review this map, please note: • the subdivisions that, if approved, this neighborhood center would serve. In so doing, it would minimize excess vehicular movements by these residents to the shopping areas at Keauhou to the south or Kailua to the north; and • the new mauka/makai road through this property that would connect Kuakini Highway with the Queen Ka' ahumanu Highway. This would facilitate vehiculaz movements in this sector of the Highway. c. I am enclosing a copy of my letter to the Planning Director, responding to the comments of the Police Department for your information. I have also contacted but, to date, not been successful in meeting with Major Dawrs of the Police Department. d. Finally, it is the developer's intent to develop and dedicate the main spine road to the County. As such, if the County would accept a bike path within the road right-of--way, we would be willing to install it.