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Concurrency requirements for roads are based upon the level of service ("LOS") of roadways serving the area. If the LOS is "E" or "F", or is projected to become so within five years, the developer, to obtain rezoning, must do something to mitigate the traffic, or wait until improvements have been funded, in order to get occupancy of the development. Ordinance No. 07-99 also has an affordable housing alternative: that the development provide twice the required affordable housing, because having housing closer to job centers reduces commuting and thus helps solve the traffic problem. For this development, although Alii Drive is currently at LOS "C", and is projected to be at LOS "D" in five years, with or without the development, Kuakini Highway is at LOS "E" currently, and is expected to be at LOS `B" in five years, with or without the project. The TIAR does not assume that any major roads will be completed within five years, although it does assume that there will be a left turn on Alii Drive into Laaloa Ave. It is interesting that the TIAR concludes that in 2016, even with the assumed completion of the Mamalahoa Bypass (Keauhou to Napopoo), the Kahului-Keauhou Parkway Phase I (Keauhou to Lako St.) and the Laaloa Ave. extension to Kuakini, that Kuakini will still be at LOS "E" because of the expected overall increase in traffic. Because Kuakini is at LOS "E", the developer must do mitigation, or wait until the completion of a major road improvement, like the Kahului-Keauhou Parkway, or build additional affordable housing. Mitigation should be commensurate with the impact of the project. In this case, the projected traffic is small: the TIAR expects that during the period when all traffic uses Alii Drive, it would only increase traffic on Alii Drive by about 5%. In this situation, there are several possible alternatives: Alternative 1: The draft Kona Community Development Plan proposes a connector road in the vicinity of this property, that would provide a mauka-makai connection between Alii Drive and the Kahului-Keauhou Parkway. The alignment of the connector is conceptual in the draft CDP, and is shown on the boundary between this property and the KIC property to the south. See Exhibit 19. The eventual connection to the Parkway would be on KIC property. The Parkway plans originally had an intersection at Makolea St., about .6 miles to the south, but this had to be eliminated because of the burial issue near this intersection. The result is that unless there is another connection as shown in -6-