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Aaron S.Y. Chung, Council Chair and Members of the County Council County of Hawai`i Page 7 during the original rezoning action, and would not object to an amendment to remove the limited access restriction,provided the project ingress/egress on Kekela Street conformed to County standards. Planning Director's Recommendation for Amending Condition F: The Planning Director is generally supportive of this amendment as it will provide a secondary,full-movement access for the general public to the project site and relieve some of the traffic issues that could arise should there only be one, limited movement access point to the property as is required by current ordinance language.This support also assumes that the applicant install appropriate traffic mitigation improvements required by DOT and DPW to ensure the traffic safety on roadways in the vicinity of the project. The DPW-Traffic Division replied with "no comment" on the original request for comments on the project in 2017. Subsequent conversation with Traffic Division indicated that they are generally supportive of allowing vehicular access to the general public to the project from Kekela Street,provided that the predominant movement is the right turn and as long as the right turn lane is sized to be long enough relative to the left/through queue in the peak hours. This means that right turn storage pocket should be sized according to the left/through queue so left/through cars don't end up blocking the right turn lane. DPW indicated that it would like to review an updated TIAR to ensure that these requirements are addressed. Applicant's Requested Amendment of Condition H (Parking Requirements): [ 91ii t-h,tmgdM Seetioii 25 4 s 1(9(3) *jThe project shall provide a iuininuou of one parking space for each 160 square feet of gross floor area for commercial uses, or the requirements of Section 25-4-51, nvhichever is greater. The inininnnn off-street parking spaces for this project shall[IW- }+J be [4-23]57 spaces. Applicant's Reasons for Amending Condition H: The applicant is proposing to continue to comply with the 160-square foot to one(1) parking stall ratio but would like to apply it to the smaller proposed square footage of commercial space of the current proposed project(9,046 square feet).The previous developer planned a significantly larger commercial project which was twice the size of the currently proposed project. Instead of applying the Zoning Code requirement of one (1)parking stall for every 300 square feet of gross floor area for commercial space, the