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ALAMEDA:That would be good. EMLER:83-5406 Middle Keei Road, Captain Cook. I didnt review Condition W before I came to the meeting so-. I wasnt paying a lot of attention to this one the last couple of days there was others. Well youre assigning the responsibility to the development. In other words it would be an association of property owners I would assume that would be responsible for sound abatement measures to reduce the sound within the project. Now, it would probably be advisable for them to be looking at how they would do this during the project construction and part of the project construction rather than it coming up at a later date when the homeowners have already established a certain amount of mortgage that they have to pay and then all of a sudden something else comes up. I dont know how theyre going to establish this. Theyll, of course theyll have homeowners fees, association fees. So it would come out of some kind of association fee I would suppose but I dont know. ALAMEDA:CommissionerWatanabe? EMLER:IthinkthatquestionreallyshouldbeansweredbythePlanningDirector. He, he did the-, proposed the condition. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Watanabe? You maybe want to rephrase your question or Im not sure if? WATANABE:Maybe-. As I recall in the last meeting there was some discussion about where the landscaping would occur and within what easement and etc. And I do believe there were some commitments there, maybe you can refresh our memory Mr. Director. ALAMEDA:Director Yuen? YUEN:This Condition W about putting in the noise abatement measures is really there as a matter of caution. And thats to avoid the problem referred to by Mr. Emler of adding costs to the County when it builds a project. To get Federal funding, theres some analysis of this in the Background and Recommendation. To get Federal funding for a project, the Federal Highway Administration has standards for how noisy the highway should be adjacent to existing residential areas. So, they, if you bring a highway that reaches a noise above a certain level then something has to be done, sound barriers and the like. So, this problem actually does already exist along the right of way of-, potentially exists in that there are other condominiums that have either been, that have zoning or have actually been built and other housing have been built along the other right of way. Theres an analysis of this thats done in the EIS, the original EIS and was updated in the mid-1990s. It looks from the analysis as though this area would be okay and not have a noise problem particularly because one of the big things is that the, it has a lot to do with speed limit in the area. Cars make a lot more noise when theyre going fast. The speed limit on this section because its a real short section between Kuakini and Queen Kaahumanu Highway, the speed limit would be low. Plus the analysis was done based on 4 lanes and a huge volume of traffic. The current plan is to make the highway 2 lanes. But, so, we, and the applicant does have a problem with this condition. I think that we could work this thing through, if they gave a professional opinion on this. You know were working off of something that was EXHIBIT A 12