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directing traffic from South Kona through the Mamalahoa Bypass to Keauhou, you know, what problems are we foreseeing? You know, it’s somewhat exacerbates the whole situation now and just transferring one problem in one area to another area with the same problem existing. You know -. YUEN: The long-range plan is that there would be a complete parallel road system including the Mamalahoa Bypass and the Alii Parkway. As far as the usefulness of the Mamalahoa Bypass, there are a considerable number of people for whom Keauhou or points along Alii Drive are their destination in the morning, both, you know, people who work at the hotels, people who work at condos and hotels along Alii Drive. So those are people, for example, if they are coming from South Kona or Ocean View would be taken off of the road system but eventually would have ended up in the Keauhou and Alii Drive area anyway. There are reasons to be concerned about traffic in the Keauhou and Alii Drive area that would be generated by having this Bypass opened; and that’s something that Public Works will be talking about in their presentation in more detail. I’d like to point out though that as far as the rezoning ordinance, the issues at the Keauhou end are really a matter only of timing. Had we not changed the rezoning ordinance if the Hokulia project had gone ahead without the delays and difficulties and say the Bypass Highway had been completed, then the Napoopoo junction would be opened, and someday we hope will be opened, and then cars will come down and end up in Keauhou with the necessity of going somewhere. The Alii Parkway was replanned. Originally the Alii Parkway was supposed to start at the Kailua-Kona end. But in roughly the early 2000 period when it was recognized that the Mamalahoa Bypass was going to terminate in Keauhou, it’d be a good to have some way of continuing the traffic from the end of that Bypass, that highway was replanned so that the first phase would be Keauhou to Lako Street, rather than starting at the Kailua-Kona end. So this is not something that has gone unrecognized or unplanned. WATANABE: Mr. Woodward? WOODWARD: Yeah, I just had a question, and this may be more appropriate for Mr. McClure or one of his representatives from Public Works. But my understanding is that they are actually proceeding with construction of the second phase of this even though there’s an appeal. Is that correct? YUEN: Not currently. But they can talk to you about that. WOODWARD: Okay. WATANABE: Mr. Graham? GRAHAM: Mr. Yuen, what’s your best guess if this continuing litigation with the appeal goes forward and the County prevails in the end? And what kind of a date would we be looking at for when actually we could have this full Napoopoo junction operable with the Bypass? EXHIBIT A 6