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T. SHIROMA: Thank you. GRAHAM: Would Mr. Lim and/or Mr. Gomes care to come back and -? This is where your opportunity is to make any comments based on the testimony you’ve just heard or on any of the responses from the Commissioners to that testimony. LIM: Thank you. And we would like to thank the families from the area for coming out and spending their time today to support the project. The proposal by the applicant to delete the access to the site from Kekela Street I think can be handled in an amendment of the existing conditions. We looked at the traffic impact analysis report condition, we’re willing to accept it as is. And if the State Department of Transportation requires it, then we’ll do it. So, you know, we would propose that the Conditions F and G be modified under our proposal. Condition F would state that there shall be no access to the project site from Kekela Street. And Condition G would state that access to the project site shall be limited to Puainako Street, shall be a right-turn in and right-turn out only and meet with the approval of the Department of Transportation, and the applicant shall construct any improvements on Puainako Street as required by the Department of Transportation. So these are relatively minor amendments. I think that the modification of the access to the project we believe solves as much as you can the traffic issues in the Kekela Street area. You know, but I know the DOT might want to do something different, but I think it’s a done deal. They’ve got maybe 30 some residences, as Mr. Hayashi pointed out, back in there. So I don’t know that they’re going to be able to do anything significant to change the existing traffic patterns; and, hopefully, they can figure something out better than we can. But I think for us to close off the Kekela Street access and entry to the project will at least not make the situation worse. GRAHAM: Thank you. Mr.Yuen, I know when that proposal first came forth you made some comments. Do you care to update them or want to say anything additional on that? YUEN: Well, I still oppose to changing conditions in this instance. We got a rezoning application which has a site plan that includes access from Kekela Street. We send it to Public Works, Police Department, DOT, they make comments based on that. We would be shooting from the hip to say that the access should only be from Puainako, now that the access should only be from Puainako Street and that that’s better. It may be the best thing, I don’t know. I’d like to hear a review by the other agencies of this different concept. None of them, you know, it’d be different if one of them suggested this and then we put it in a condition. But I don’t see that any of the commenting agencies have suggested this as a condition. And so if we’re going to limit, if the proposal is that we limit access from Kekela Street, I would want to recirculate that and have the comments from DOT. If they say they don’t want a TIAR anymore, then that’s fine, then we can process it like that. But I don’t want to move this forward saying that access should only be from Puainako Street. I just cannot sit here and say that that’s necessarily better. EXHIBIT B 16