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LIM: Kekela Street is a County road and it services other residents inside. So we would be basically deleting the Kekela Street entry and exit from the project. SIRACUSA: So the only way that people could enter that complex then would be from Puainako, and it would be a right-turn in? LIM: And a right-turn out. SIRACUSA: And a right turn-out. So we wouldn’t have any of the issues about crossing lines of traffic? GOMES: Right. SIRACUSA: That was my biggest concern here. GRAHAM: Mr. Yuen? YUEN: Yes. I’m afraid that I would not recommend doing what Mr. Lim is saying. If they are going to make a proposal that they don’t have any access from Kekela Street, they come in and out from Puainako Street only as a right-in/right-out, at the very least I would want to send that to the Department of Transportation which controls Puainako Street and ask them for their comment on that, and see if they still want a TIAR. Because, you know, where Puainako Street is a major street now it’s going to be more and more important over time. Because it’s on, you know, you have the upper section that is now the access to Saddle Road, and you have the middle section which isn’t very good but it’s suppose to be realigned some day and become a major path. This section I’m talking about is this middle section from Kinoole Street to Komohana. It’s supposed to be realigned and become a major access to Komohana and possibly the community college that’s located up there as well. And so we want to hear what the DOT has to say about the intersection. So if they came back and said oh, that’s fine, now we don’t need the TIAR anymore, okay, that’s fine. But I’m not going to just say we drop that as a condition because I don’t know what they have to say. I don’t know, it may be better to come in and out of Puainako Street as a right-in/right-out only than coming off Kekela Street. A lot of it depends on how attractive the destination is to people. Because say somebody happens to be going makai down Puainako Street and they really want to go to this development, there’s nothing to prevent them from turning left on Kekela Street, turn into the existing Ginger Patch commercial area, turn around and come back out. So you can’t simply assume that because you can’t turn, you know, they don’t have an access on Kekela Street that people are not going to make left-turns and try to get to this commercial area who happen to be going makai on Puainako Street. So that’s, you know, it’s a change in a proposal. I’m not trying to tie things up, but I certainly am not, you know, I can’t recommend moving it to Council with a right-in/right-out and drop the requirement of a TIAR. We have to send the new proposal to the DOT. LIM: You know, I think that the existing Condition E requires that a TIAR shall be submitted to the Department of Transportation Highways Division prior to the issuance of final plan approval and a copy of the TIAR shall be submitted to the Planning Director; and all we’re saying is, you know, we’ll comply with the Department of Transportation Highways’ requirement; and then if required by them we would submit the TIAR and also submit it to the County Planning Department. So I think that our only suggested recommendation would be the modification to Condition E that says if required a TIAR shall be submitted. GRAHAM: Commissioner Siracusa? EXHIBIT B 9