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Pete Hoffmann, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 4 (DPW) requires roadway connections to adjoining parcels and states that vehicular access to individual lots shall be prohibited from Kahului - Keauhou Parkway. However, a gated vehicular emergency egress to Kahului - Keauhou Parkway may be installed. On June 25, 2007, Ordinance No. 07-99, establishing "concurrency" standards for roads and water, in rezonings, took effect. This is Section 25-2-46 of the Zoning Code. This is the first rezoning application in West Hawaii of a sufficient scale to trigger a "concurrency" analysis. Under Ordinance No. 07-99, any rezoning proposing a development that will generate 50 or more trips at the AM or PM peak hour needs to prepare a traffic impact analysis report ("TIAR") that analyzes the project's effects on local and regional traffic. This project barely exceeds the 50 trip minimum threshold for a TIAR. The Planning Department required a revised TIAR for this project because the TIAR initially submitted did not address regional traffic impacts. 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 "E" 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 La'aloa 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 Kahalui-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%.