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Okay, now we’re approaching the mauka gate of this particular roadway. Okay, now we’re proceeding to the Kona Scenic Subdivision. The Kona Scenic Park is located on the right of the picture. This particular section of Halekii Street is 36-foot wide.It does have curbs and sidewalk. We’re right now in the residential area of the subdivision. There are approximately 40 lots that front this section, residential lots that front this section of Halekii Street. We’re soon to approach the commercial area of this particular subdivision.Okay, we’re now approaching the intersection with the mauka Mamalahoa Highway. And I’ll be turning right. As you’ll note, this particular intersection has a street light, or traffic light. There are turning lanes at this particular intersection. So this is going in a south direction. And I’ll be turning around and I’ll just go down to the intersection; and that’ll be the end of the presentation. I went into the suicide lane and almost got hit. I just wanted to show you the intersection from this side of the Halekii intersection. Now we’re going toward the north and approaching the Halekii intersection. So basically this concludes the drive through. And I’ll turn it over to the representatives from the Department of Public Works at this time. WATANABE: Thank you, Mr. Hayashi. Mr. McClure, I’ve been informed by staff that they would like to take five minutes. I believe we have a much larger crowd than anticipated so we’re planning on taking down these partitions. So maybe we can take five now and proceed a little later. RECESSED The Chair called a recess at 9:45 a.m. RECONVENED The meeting reconvened at 9:55 a.m. WATANABE: Will the Planning Commission meeting come back to order, please. Could someone get the lights? Oh, excuse me, Mr. McClure, are you going to be having a PowerPoint also? MCCLURE: Yes, we’re high-tech. WATANABE: Okay, before I call on you though, I’d like to ask the crowd to please if you have any cell phones or pagers to either put them on vibrate or turn them off. And there are a heck of a lot of people here so obviously there are some public interest. But I have 18 people signed up to testify and everyone here is welcome to testify. But, however, if you plan to provide testimony, you need to sign up with the staff, yeah, so that we can recognize you. And with that, I guess I’ll turn it over to you, Mr. McClure. MCCLURE: Good morning. I’m Bruce McClure, the Director of the Department of Public Works. With me today is our Deputy Director Jiro Sumada to my right and the head of our traffic division Ron Thiel to my left. We have a PowerPoint, a brief PowerPoint, that we will show you. Before I start that, let me just, to me it’s, we have an agreement under the two existing ordinances, okay. Three things have changed since that agreement was made. And the three things that have changed is the traffic has increased significantly north, south. All of the road was not able to be built, a portion of it was. So there’s a potential resource to be used. And if approved by the Commission, or your recommendation and ultimately the Council, the Council will ultimately decide what conditions there are, we would have a resource. And if that EXHIBIT A 8