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people cannot make left-turns coming out of the project and going back towards KTA or the mall. So it’d be limited to a right-turn in and a right-turn out. I think in light of the concerns raised we believe that we would like to propose that the Kekela Street entrance be closed off, that we only have a right-turn in and a right-turn out. What we think that does is it gets rid of at least an exacerbation of the existing issues at the Kekela Street intersection. And that probably at least we would request that the requirement that a traffic impact analysis report then be dropped. At that point I don’t know what else we can do in terms of access to the project. I’d defer to the Planning Director’s recommendation on this. But I think that at that point there’s probably very little to study in terms of the traffic movements along that area. But that’s our offer. I think it addresses a lot of the significant issues on the traffic and we ask for your support. GRAHAM: For clarification you’re suggesting that both the entrance and exit on Kekela Street be dropped from the project; and you’re asking that since that would reduce traffic issues that the TIAR requirement also be dropped from the Planning Department’s recommendations; and also you’d like us to proceed today even with our concerns, at least? LIM: That’s correct. We still have to comply with the State Department of Transportation’s requirements, whatever those might be for the right-in and right-out. But, you know, if they make us do a traffic impact analysis report, then we’ve got to do one. But I think at least having it as a formal condition coming out of the County’s side that that’s probably, in light of our amendment, would probably be unnecessary. GOMES: I’d like to say something. It wouldn’t add anything to that intersection of Kekela. GRAHAM: Excuse me, I really should take your name and address. GOMES: Jon Gomes, 900 Alewa Drive, Honolulu. GRAHAM: Okay, go ahead. GOMES: If we move the ingress and egress on Kekela Street it wouldn’t have any impact at all on that left turn out of Kekela Street at least from the project. It would still be the normal residents coming out and making that left turn. Nobody from the project would be making a left turn there from Kekela. GRAHAM: All right, thank you. Commissioner Siracusa, any questions? SIRACUSA: Well, yeah. But before that question, you were speaking rather softly and you weren’t close enough to these new mikes so I missed what you were saying about Kekela Street. Because I did have a question there, if you were going to close off the entrance from the complex to Kekela Street, or if you would close off Kekela Street itself? LIM: No. That’s a County road so we couldn’t close it off. But we’re going to close off -. SIRACUSA: Well, sometimes there are private roads so I wasn’t sure what the situation was there. EXHIBIT B 8