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If I can add one more thing. I got a note from Tracie that there was a 2009 memo from the
<br /> Department of Public Works that specifically laid out the required improvements along the
<br /> roadway, and Tracie may be able to speak to that, if you'd like that information.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Sure that would be great, Tracie, if you don't mind.
<br /> CAMERO: Yeah, okay, so in a September 17, 2009, memo that was given to our then-Director
<br /> BJ Leithead Todd, it was signed by Galen Kuba, and within the Roadways section, it does state
<br /> that"Increased demand for safe pedestrian use of Kapi`olani Road, in addition to the increase in
<br /> vehicular use, as a result of the proposed school facilities should be anticipated. Upgrades to
<br /> Kapi`olani Road to support the subject facility are not likely to be provided by the county, so we
<br /> suggest the following conditions: a. Prior to the occupancy of the proposed middle school and/or
<br /> gymnasium, the applicant should be required to provide pavement widening, concrete curb gutter
<br /> and sidewalk, and incidental drainage improvements along the south side of Kapi`olani Road
<br /> from Lindsey Road to the middle school, meeting with the approval of the Department of Public
<br /> Works, at no cost to the county, or prior to the occupancy of the proposed middle school and/or
<br /> gymnasium, the applicant should be required to provide and maintain a six-foot wide pervious
<br /> paved pedestrian walkway/shoulder separated from the traveled way with an intermittent curb
<br /> barrier along the south side of Kapi`olani Road from Lindsey Road to the middle school, meeting
<br /> with the approval of the Department of Public Works, at no cost to the county."
<br /> VITOUSEK: Thank you. Okay, you know, for us in a situation where we are looking at the
<br /> potential impacts of the proposed pedestrian improvements on the area where we may have to
<br /> remove or alter or move a historic residence one, which is on the corner of Kapi`olani and
<br /> Lindsey Road, and to alter the, what I would consider to be a historic landscape feature of
<br /> Waimea, the orange honeysuckle hedge, which is,you know, a component of the cultural
<br /> environment of Waimea, I feel as though we need to analyze whether the effects of the
<br /> pedestrian improvements should be addressed and whether they fit the need.
<br /> So, that, the most recent traffic study, 2020, is not inclusive of the middle school, the estimated
<br /> middle school generating traffic, is that correct?
<br /> MOOERS: No, I believe it does include the full impact of the traffic, yeah. Commissioner, can I
<br /> make a comment that might be helpful? I
<br /> VITOUSEK: Sure.
<br /> MOOERS: I know that, you know, we've got two issues here: One, we are talking about what
<br /> is the impact of the gym, and I think the other question that has been raised, and not by Parker
<br /> school but by the community, has been whether or not condition 11 should remain at all. So I
<br /> think that there are two separate issues, and the one that we are trying to decide today, I think, is
<br /> what is the impact of the gymnasium. And I think that we, the applicant believes that Public
<br /> Works and Planning has agreed that the impact of the gymnasium in and of itself does not,
<br /> should not trigger these improvements. That being said, I think, in the long term, I think we have
<br /> to look a—and I think, you know, Robyn Matsumoto made the point—that in the future if a
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