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YUEN: We have a letter that we got, I believe it’s in your file, a couple of days ago from Oceanside 1250 giving an estimate of three years to actually build the road from commencement of construction at the current intersection. GRAHAM: And that would only take place after the litigation is finished. So do you have a guess for how long the litigation would take? YUEN: Well, I wouldn’t necessarily draw that conclusion, but there are issues that would come up where, and again this is something expressed by Oceanside 1250 in the letter, that they want some assurance from the County as to what would happen if they spent a lot of money building a road that did not, it was not eventually able to be completed because of the problem of the litigation. That’s something that we certainly don’t expect to happen. But I think that has been well expressed by their letter. GRAHAM: All right, thank you. WATANABE: Any further questions? Mr. Hayashi? HAYASHI: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Before we call upon the Department of Public Works, we did prepare a short video, a drive on Mamalahoa Bypass Road and up Halekii Street. It’s an amateur-made video so please bear with us. Okay, basically what we’ve been doing is starting off, just before we go down to the Keauhou Bay Road. So right now we’re on Alii Highway, and I’ll try to speed it up a bit. It may be difficult for some of you out there to see. There’s too much light in here.But right now we just passed I believe the Kaleiopapa Road that leads to Keauhou Bay. And we’re now soon to approach the gate that’s there before the Bypass Road. The light you see is from the sunlight. It was taken early morning. So we’re now approaching the gate, and I’ll speed it up, if I can. As you can see, it’s an amateur produced -. Okay, we’re now on the beginning of the Bypass Road. The Bypass Road, the size of the roadway is approximately 24 feet; and there are 8-foot wide shoulders on both sides of the road. And this section of the road up until Halekii Street is approximately 3.3 miles. So I’ll speed it up a bit. It might affect the color on the video. For those of you who haven’t been on this roadway, if you look on the makai side there’s a beautiful view of the ocean And I don’t know why that’s doing that; I guess it’s because I’m fast forwarding the video. Just to let a car, actually that’s not the speed limit, I’m exceeding the speed limit by pressing the fast-forward. As I indicated, that light, white streak is from the sunlight. We should be shortly approaching the intersection with Halekii Street. Okay, now we’re close to the Halekii Street intersection. They are making the necessary improvements to this particular intersection. And we’ll be turning up left or mauka, and right now we’re close to the intersection with Halekii Street. We’d be making a left-turn here. If you go makai, that would be to the Hokulia project area. This is the intersection now with Halekii Street and the Mamalahoa Bypass. This particular road was constructed by Hokulia. This particular section, the pavement width is approximately 24 feet. There are grass shoulders as you’ll see as we go up this particular roadway, and that would be up until the mauka gate, just before we hit the Kona Scenic Subdivision. This particular section is approximately 1.7 miles all the way to the mauka Mamalahoa Highway. EXHIBIT A 7