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The Honorable J Yoshimoto, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 8 fronting the property. The General Plan identifies Pahoa Village Road as a collector street which requires a minimum right-of-way width of 60 feet. Thus, 5 feet of additional right-of-way is required from the subject property for future road widening. The Kahakai Blvd Extension will be constructed over a 50-foot wide State-owned road reserve lot. This extension will be constructed to meet commercial roadway standards which require a 60-foot right-of-way width. Therefore, 5 feet of additional right-of-way will also be required from the subject property fronting the Kahakai Blvd Extension. Curb, gutter and sidewalk improvements will also be required along the property frontage of both roadways in order to meet commercial roadway standards established in the General Plan. The County will accept dedication of the Kahakai Blvd extension upon completion of improvements to County dedicable standards, and prior to issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy for the proposed development. The applicant proposes to establish an approximately 104,326-square foot commercial center on the subject property. To determine the proposed project's traffic impacts on nearby transportation facilities, a Traffic Impact Analysis Report (TIAR) and Signal Warrant Study was prepared in June 2013 by Witcher Engineering LLP. The TIAR was completed in compliance with Chapter 25, Section 25-2-46 (Concurrency Requirements) of the Hawai`i County Code, which indicates that mitigation is required "if the level-of-service(LOS) for any transportation facility in the project area is a) currently worse than the acceptable LOS, or b) projected to become worse than the acceptable LOS during the 5 year period of the TIAR, any rezoning of the property, if approved, shall contain conditions that require mitigation of adverse traffic effects before occupancy of the project is permitted, or that occupancy be delayed until the LOS has reached the acceptable level and is no longer projected to be worse than the acceptable level." The TIAR determined that the Pahoa Bypass (Highway 130)/Pahoa Village Road intersection requires mitigation because during the a.m. and p.m. peak hour periods the northbound left-turn movement currently operates at LOS "F", which is the worse level- of-service and represents extreme traffic delay. To mitigate this existing LOS "F" condition, the State is planning to install a roundabout. This project is included in the Department of Transportation's Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan (STIP) Revision#13 dated April 17, 2013, which indicates that construction is estimated to occur during fiscal year 2013. Concurrency Requirements indicate"Mitigation requirements will be deemed satisfied when a public agency has committed funds for area mitigation that will remove the LOS deficiency. In the case of the State, commitment of funds means that the governor has released funds to complete the improvement." Thus, mitigation requirements will have been met for this intersection, and the proposed development can receive a Certificate of Occupancy from the County, once the governor releases funding for the State's roundabout project. The TIAR also determined that the Kahakai Blvd/Pahoa Village Road intersection requires mitigation because during the p.m. peak hour period both the eastbound and westbound left-turn movements will