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SIRACUSA:Thank you and do you remember more or less how many units were talking about for those 2? DARROW:If you can give me one second. SIRACUSA:Just, just general figures. DARROW:I believe it was 250 affordablehousing rental units for Suffolk and then Puaa was a commercial development but the Director also required I believe 50 houses to be constructed at one point and then as commercial development grew then it was required to build an additional 50 units for that particular project. SIRACUSA:So, if we add these 212 units to those figures youre looking at well over 500unitswithinthatcircumscribedarea.Thankyou.SoImthinkingaboutcumulativetraffic impacts here. ALAMEDA:Thank you. SIRACUSA:Just to let you know where my mind is working on. ALAMEDA:Okay. Other questions for our staff? Commissioner? Lets go to Commissioner Graham and then Commissioner Watanabe. Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:All right since I was the lone dissenting voter at our last meeting where we had only 5 Commissioners I just wanted to bring forth to the Commissioners and to the public you know remind what was the essence of my nay vote. And it basically was the traffic issue that Commissioner Siracusa alludes to right now. And in this case if you notice in our background report on this proposal, Exhibit C is from the Department of Public Works and Mr. Emler testified before us last time. And in the first page of that Exhibit C in his bold face type he recommended that the applicant should not be given this development entitlement until Kuakini Highway was widened to 4 lanes in front of the project or that if it were to be given that it would be conditioned on the completion of that widening. And we also got a letter from the Kona Traffic Safety Committee and Mr. Gimpel is also here today and referring to the same thing that the infrastructure in the area doesnt really support all the additional traffic that would be generated. So, in addition to saying that I would maybe take this opportunity as the Planning Director if you would indicate to us why it is then in this particular instance you chose to go against the recommendation of the Department of Public Works and recommend favorable approval? ALAMEDA:Director? YUEN:Sure. We have a terrible housing problem in, well on the island as a whole. And in Kailua Kona particularly. Although we have a lot of housing being produced almost none of its being produced at affordable levels because its being done on zoning that either occurred without affordable housing conditions or projects that were released from EXHIBIT A 5