2019-06-06 Hearing Transcript - Autozone Parts REZ 06-052

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say the effective date where it says rezoning, we changed it to match the amended ordinance language. So, moving on to Condition D, the Applicant is requesting deletion of Condition D which required consolidation of four former parcels that make up the current parcel, and those were 31, 57, 68, and 69 into one tmk. This consolidation was granted in 2012; therefore, since it's already been done, the Director is supportive of deletion this condition. Another condition is to amend Condition N, and this was the request to update fair -share contribution dollar amounts to current levels. Although the Applicant is not proposing the construction of any residential units on the subject property, the proposed amendment seeks to update the fair -share contribution amounts based on the current percentage change in the Honolulu Consumer Price Index being utilized by the Planning Department to determine what those amounts would be and updating those from the 2007 levels to current levels. The Director is supportive of this proposed amendment as well. As a standard practice, we will update these when we have time extensions or amendments to ordinances. So, they are just making their requests on something we would have done anyway. So, the next is an amendment to Condition F, and again, the original condition limited project access from Kekela Street to only delivery vehicles. So, the Applicant's proposed language is here. It's now saying that access to the project site from Kekela Street shall be allowed for general public and delivery vehicles, and shall conform with Chapter 22 of the Hawaii County Code. Their reasons for this are the Applicant conducted and submitted a TIAR which assessed the level of service at the Kekela Street/Puainako Street intersection. The current level of service at the intersection is "F" and the projected level of service would continue to be "F" in the future should the project be built. Some of the mitigation—or some additional information that the TIAR found was that trips travelling southbound on Kekela Street, that's toward KTA which are turning left to go toward Kanoelehua on Puainako Street, experience the highest delay at the intersection. They also found that the existing southbound lane on Kekela Street is approximately 24 -feet wide which would be sufficient area to provide two 12 -foot wide lanes if they restriped, and that's what they recommended in terms of mitigation, was to restripe Kekela Street, restripe that southbound lane to provide a left-hand turn lane and a through -lane to improve operations at the intersection to minimize disruption at the southbound right -turn, and to maintain traffic flow. The 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 from Puainako as is required by current ordinance language. This support also assumes that the Applicant is required to install appropriate traffic mitigation improvements as required by DOT and DPW to ensure traffic safety on the roadways in the vicinity of the project. Oh, sorry—the last thing, and the last reason for this is according to the Applicant, DPW informed them that it did not recommend any access restrictions on Kekela Street during the original rezoning action, and that it would not object to an amendment to remove the limited EXHIBIT A 4