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The Honorable J Yoshimoto, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 6 Access to the project area will be from two locations: Hualalai Road to the north, and Paulehia Street located in the Pualani Estates Subdivision to the south. The primary access will be from Paulehia Street which will connect to the signalized intersection at the Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway and Puapuaanui Street in the Pualani Estates Subdivision. The project will include anorth-south connector road between the .project's primary access at Paulehia Street to Hualalai Road. The applicant has submitted a Traffic Impact Analysis Report (TIAR) conducted by Witcher Engineering, LLP dated April, 2009. In addition to the analysis of other intersections in the nearby vicinity, the TIAR examined the overall traffic impact of the proposed project, including the primary access road at Puapuaanui Street in the Pualani Estates Subdivision from the Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway and the secondary access road at Hualalai Road makai/east of its intersection with Hienaloli Road. The TIAR concluded that "the levels of service at the intersection of a) Puapuaanui Street and the Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway and 2) Hualalai Road and Hienaloli Road to be "A" or "B" during the AM and PM peak hours and thus `acceptable levels of service' in compliance with Concurrency Requirements for traffic impact analysis reports of the Hawaii County Code." Hualalai Road is a County collector street with an 18 to 20-foot wide pavement ~ with a variable right-of-way. The Department of Public Works (DPW) states, in summary: • Hualalai Road is substandard based on width, alignment and roadside hazard clearances. • The proposed connection to Hualalai Road should be master planned further mauka to serve both the subject property and adjoining Parce143 mauka of the site. • Realign the right-of-way property line along the entire subject property frontage of Hualalai Road to provide an alignment meeting with the approval of the DPW. The applicant states that future roadway connectivity to the adjacent west/makai Parce141 and eastlmauka Parce143 will be provided via roadway stub outs planned within the proposed project. All utilities and services are available to the site. County water is available to ' the project site. The Department of Water Supply states that the applicant is a member of the Waiaha System, LLC, which executed a Water Development Agreement with the Water Board to secure water commitments for the development. The DWS has