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Honorable Pete Hoffmann Chair and Presiding Officer and Members of the County Council COUNTY COUNCIL Page 2 March 10, 2008 The tax maps actually show two alignments of Mud Lane that lead mauka from Highway 240, the Honoka'a-Kuikuihaele highway, and converge in one alignment at about the 1640' elevation and continue to the Belt Highway. The two alignments thus form a Y. Both these alignments of Mud Lane appear on a 1909 map of the area that is in the Pacific Legacy inventory survey. The westerly alignment meets Highway 240 near the DWS water tank and has a "Mud Lane" road sign at this end. The other alignment is about 1.7 miles east. I will refer to it as "Old Mud Lane" because that is what it is called on old tax maps. Where it meets Highway 240 there is a stub of a road (which actually may be slightly east of the legal alignment). There is a gate at the end of this stub and no road is obvious on the ground leading mauka, at least as viewed from Highway 240, although a road is apparent in a 1993 aerial photo and definitely existed at one time. Neither alignment of Mud Lane exists on the ground currently as a route that can be continuously traversed. Going mauka from Kukuihaele, the road with the "Mud Lane" sign can be driven, with a 4WD vehicle, for a distance of about 2100', where it intersects with a private cross-road. About 100' mauka of this point, Mud Lane disappears into guinea grass about 5' high. Farther uphill, in the area just below where Mud Lane converges with "Old Mud Lane", the alignments of both roads are covered in mature eucalyptus trees. Just makai of the point where the two alignments of Mud Lane join, there is a junction of a private road that leads mauka from Kukuihaele with the mauka cane haul road from Kapulena. This mauka cane haul road leads to the Kapulena airstrip and intersects with Hwy. 240 at about the 4 mile marker. This mauka cane haul road, also private, can also be combined with the Waimea end of Mud Lane to get from the Belt Highway to Highway 240 but does not really save any significant driving distance between Waimea and Kukuihaele. It is paved. To drive between Waimea and Kukuihaele would require using about two miles of private roads, mostly on KS/BE property, taking the shortest route. These private roads are currently ungated. This would involve about 6.5 miles of driving in total. Because people's habits differ, it is difficult to estimate how fast people would drive this route, but