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A 4 2. Existing Road: It should be clarified that an existing 40-foot wide "paper" road (name changed from Pun Honu Street to Komohana Street in July 1967) extends from Waianuenue Avenue to Wailuku Drive ("paper" road). This 40-foot roadway is proposed to be widen by 20 feet on both sides of the right-of-way, thereby resulting in the proposed 80-foot wide right-of-way alignment. The proposed 80-foot right-of-way alignment then extends northerly and traverses parcel 2 and lands on the Hamakua side of Wailuku River. (See Exhibit A - Tax Map Plat) 3. Construction of the existing Komohana Street, 80-foot right-of-way, from West Puainako Street to Waianuenue Avenue was completed in July 1967 to provide transportation movement between the Kaumana and Waiakea Homesteads areas. Since its adoption by the Board of Supervisors on December 26, 1968, the City of Hilo Zone Map identified the Komohana Street as an 80-foot right-of-way secondary arterial and extending in a northerly direction from its intersection at Waianuenue Avenue towards lands on the Hamakua side of Wailuku Drive, as well as in a southerly direction from its intersection at Ainaola Street to Stainback Highway. Subsequently, the General Plan Facilities Map, which was in effect on December 22, 1971, also identified the same Komohana Street 80-foot right-of-way alignment, except that the alignment in the northerly direction extended further toward Honomu. During the 1989 General Plan Comprehensive Review Program, the 80-foot right-of-way alignment was extended in the southerly direction from Stainback Highway toward Keaau. It should be pointed out that since the construction of Komohana Street, residential subdivisions have been developing along Komohana Street, in the Kaumana and Piihonua areas and in the upper Waiakea Homesteads areas. These regional growth on both sides of the City of Hilo has resulted in heavy traffic and at times traffic congestion on Komohana Street as well as at its major intersections with Waianuenue Avenue, Ponahawai Street, Mohouli Street, puainako Street and Kawailani Street. 4. The designation of a right-of-way on a parcel places building and other development restrictions on a property landowner which degree of impact varies depending on the amount and location of a tight-of-way on the parcel. One of the affected property -2-