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YATES: you know, something about, something about schools, something about the roads, you
<br /> know, those kinds of things. Those all are to be addressed or have been addressed?
<br /> KAY: So the applicant in their most recent proposed favorable recommendations have asked, have
<br /> gone back from asking for relief from a lot of those—affordable housing questions and issues like
<br /> that. So, I think with the school, the condition there is, their request there is to still delete the
<br /> school-related condition, and no, nothing else beyond that,just a deletion of that. And the
<br /> justification was in I believe the applicants' previous, or the original application, or their previous
<br /> favorable recommendation,probably the original application. But you want to have, Sid might be
<br /> able to reiterate the reason behind that. At any rate, several of the conditions they were asking relief
<br /> from, they've gone and put those back in in their latest favorable recommendation. If that answers
<br /> the question I think you are asking.
<br /> YATES: Okay, thank you.
<br /> CARR SMITH: Did you want to respond to that?
<br /> YATES: Yeah, my concern is still regarding traffic because, you know, that area is so terrible and,
<br /> you know, that's where I'm concerned, you know, how are they going to address that?
<br /> CARR SMITH: Well, maybe that's an appropriate time to finally let Randall speak. He's the traffic
<br /> expert on this. And you were with us all last two meetings and didn't get to say words. Do you
<br /> want to address what your findings were?
<br /> OKANEKU: Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Randall Okaneku. I'm with the Traffic
<br /> Management Consultant, and I prepared the traffic impact analysis report for the Pualani Makai.
<br /> And the traffic impact analysis report was prepared in accordance with the Hawaii County Code
<br /> concurrency requirements. And the concurrency requirements say specific guidelines for
<br /> preparation of the report. Among those are traffic mitigation for any onset unacceptable level of
<br /> service, you know, within a five-year period. The traffic study has recommended mitigation
<br /> measures that would improve the level of service to acceptable levels within a five-year period, and
<br /> we estimate those mitigation measures to maintain those acceptable levels through a ten-year period.
<br /> Beyond that, the 20-year forecast would require a major rezone type of improvements to bring back
<br /> the level of service to acceptable level. And there's, there's several projects that the traffic impact
<br /> analysis report points to, none of which are within a five-year period, maybe not even a ten-year
<br /> period, but they are on the books, one by the County and one by the State. But in any case, we've
<br /> attempted to meet the County Code's concurrency requirements as far as mitigation at the
<br /> intersection of Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway and Puapua`anui Street.
<br /> There were comments about traffic congestions along the Queen Ka`ahumanu corridor. I went back
<br /> to take a look at my traffic video, and I did identify, you know, queuing, which are basically outside
<br /> of the study area; in the morning there was queuing north of Hualalai Road, which I could see on the
<br /> video backing up, but it never reached Puapua`anui Street; similarly, in the afternoon, there was
<br /> some backed queuing that appeared to start at Lako Street and kind of backed up to Kuakini, Kuakini
<br /> Highway intersection, but again, never reached Puapua`anui Street, as far as queuing is concerned.
<br /> So a lot of these concerns are in my opinion all outside our study area. And, so I didn't restudy
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