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person who is, who is, you know they may have a place in Ocean View and they may be happy living there. What youre taking off the road is the next person because although some of these jobs actually are going begging right now, you know sooner or later the jobs will theyll find people to fill them. But theyre going to be coming from some place. So, if you put people right there and Im giving you the most ideal scenario here. This is a person who is right here. But there are a lot of people like that and most of them if you didnt have say what they call Hamburger Hill in Kailua. You know theres a lot of affordable housing in there and people come out of there and they work in the immediate area, a lot of them do and theyre not on the highway. So thats the idea behind bringing people closer to the job areas is that sure youre (inaudible) youre, you have a car thats in the central part of the town and its circulating in there but youre taking them off of 40, 50 miles of other highway that otherwise theyre going to be congesting as well. SPRINGER:Thank you. ALAMEDA:Any follow up again Commissioner Springer? Thank you for the question.CommissionerSiracusa? SIRACUSA:Yes,firstofallIwantedtocorrectCommissionerGrahambecausehe wasnt the sole nay vote, I was the other one. Thank you very much. GRAHAM:Okay. ALAMEDA:You stand corrected. SIRACUSA:And, second of all I believe it was Mr. Gimpel who brought it up in his last testimony that so the guy moves from Ocean View into this development. Then somebody else moves into his house in Ocean View and hasto travel the same road into Kailua Kona to-. So, I mean I dont think youre really reducingthe traffic. My concern is that were and Im really conflicted here because Im a supporter of affordable housing. I know that if I were to go out and try to buy a house right now theres no way I could afford to do it, Id be living on the beach and then youd kick me out for living under blue tarps. So, at the same time you know I feel that here we have these other developments that havent been built yet, the Suffolk and the Puaa. We have all the existing traffic and this is going to add to it. And yet were putting off a TIAR and I dont understand why we cant have a TIAR, which will also look at the cumulative impacts of whats going to be built not just whats on the ground at this very moment. So that we can make a much more informed decision. Thats where I feel very uncomfortable. I feel that I dont have all the information at my fingertips that I feel I should have in order to unconflict myself on this. ALAMEDA:Would you like to phrase that in a question or is that pretty much your statement? SIRACUSA:Well I would like to ask either the Director or Mr. Emler why they feel that, whats the problem, why cant we have a TIAR before the fact? EXHIBIT A 10