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That might just be something that gets people, Commissioner Burns said. It may just be a change of language of simply saying transfer station users can only pull through a determined loop or something. Were going to have people on site directing traffic with a traffic plan and detouring, Director Mansour said. So rather than complicate it in the administrative rules, it will be on site, per site, how the detour and the traffic plan is going to work. Therefore, you dont want to go too much in detail on the administrative rules, but site by site will be controlled by traffic cones and controls. Thats the way they do it on Oahu with the pull-through transfer stations, Commissioner Olson said. Vice Chair Gaffney commented on the Kealakehe Transfer Station greenwaste chute. He could not see how a truck or car pulling a trailer can make a 90-degree turn and end up parallel to that chute in order to be able to offload their greenwaste. It doesnt matter which way you enter, that chute has a straight-line fence immediately adjacent to it, which is going to require a 90 degree turn one way or the other. Trailers dont do that. Theyre going to be standing off eight to 10 feet away from the chute, which is going to create a huge mess, potentially for the staff at the Kealakehe Transfer Station. Director Mansour said that is the reason we are doing it. The idea is we can work on the traffic control, maybe re-alternate the chutes, maybe where the green chute is now, is not the right spot for it. So, if it doesnt work, then we may not allow trailers for that site, he said. Thats the whole reason were doing the admin rules, to look at these modifications and continue looking at it from the safety and practicality aspects. And if your concern is theres no way we could do it even if we could move the green chute to different places and alternate between the chutes, then youre right, he said. Then thats probably going to be difficult, and that site will be taken away. But that will give us the option. Commissioner Cardwell asked if anyone knew what percentage of greenwaste is dropped off via a trailer. She did not know whether all these limitations around trailers is going to affect our greenwaste program, and people simply wont bring it to the transfer stations. She was wondering how often trailers are used to dump green waste. Commissioner Olson said having looked at this before, when he did the design for the Keaau Transfer Station, most of the greenwaste is residential. In other words, the commercial guys, they keep it, theyre composting. Its a resource. Theyre not going to give it away. Youre talking about properties of 2 acres and less generally. And if you have more land than that, then you got more than enough room to have your own composting pile. Its the small lot subdivisions that create the problem, and theyre the ones that have a land use issue because they dont have available land around them to set up another transfer station, he said. There are not more than two or three transfer stations on the island today that were not transfer 14