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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%. The concurrency ordinance also provides that the Planning Director shall give options to the council on how concurrency can be achieved. 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 18. 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 the CDP, there would be no connection between Alii Drive and the Kahului - Keauhou Parkway between the Keauhou Shopping Center and La'aloa Ave., a distance of about 1.8 miles. The conditions of zoning would allow this to be built as a minor or local street, rather than as a collector, because it would be just one of a network of streets eventually providing access between Alii Drive and the Kahului - Keauhou Parkway. The difficulty for the applicant with Alternative 1 is that it cannot connect to Alii Drive without access through property it does not currently own. Alternative 2: the applicant could provide improvements to Alii Drive, specifically, a left turn lane at the Queen Kalama/Alii Drive intersection. Alternative 3: the applicant could provide twice the affordable housing normally required under Chap. 11. In this case, the applicant would still be required to make some improvements to the Queen Kalama/Alii Drive intersection because of safety and traffic flow issues. Alternative 4: the applicant could wait for occupancy until funds have been committed for Phase I of the Kahului - Keauhou Parkway. Although Kuakini might still be at LOS "E", the TIAR projects traffic on the Kahului - Keauhou Parkway to be at LOS "D" in 2016, hence adequate under the concurrency standards. In this case, the applicant -5-