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updated TIAR satisfied Condition I. In addition, DOT indicated that recommendations in the updated TIAR should be fulfilled by WHBP LLC and that no driveways should be permitted between Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway and the Kanalani Street Extension to prevent traffic queues backing onto the highway. In response, the applicant's traffic engineer, Wilson Okamoto Corporation, prepared a Supplemental Traffic Analysis (STA), which included an,analysis of the potential traffic queuing issues/concerns caused by driveways within the portions of North Access Road and South Access Road between Queen Ka` ahumanu Highway and Kanalani Street. The analysis detennined the potential queuing is expected to be minimal, however, it identified improvement recommendations to assure there would be no impacts on DOT facilities. The applicant supports inclusion of the improvement recommendations as conditions of approval of the change of zone amendment. Planning Department Review: Planning Department staff had concerns that the assumption of 356,059 square feet of gross leasable space for commercial uses within the requested 48.4 -acre project area on which the TIAR based its traffic impacts and roadway improvement recommendations for Phase 1, seemed small. Staff was concerned that if the square footage of commercial development increased beyond that amount, then traffic level of service may suffer without further mitigation. Therefore, they suggested capping the square footage of commercial development at the represented 365,059 square feet of gross leasable commercial space. The applicant strongly disagreed with this suggestion and had their traffic engineer assess the amount of coirunercial development that could be reasonably accommodated within Phase 1 of the project without requiring significant improvements in the vicinity to mitigate projected traffic operations. According to the STA, the density of commercial development could be doubled (from 20% to 40% floor area ratio) to 711,000 square feet of gross leasable commercial area, while still maintaining an acceptable level of service, provided that the following roadway improvements were made: 1) all of the improvements recommended in the original TIAR; 2) the construction of the North Access Road between Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway and Kanalani Street; and 3) off-site approach improvements at the intersection of Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway and Kealakehe Parkway (which DOT