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hope that you can find that these projects will actually help, not necessarily hinder the fulfillment of those two objectives. Oh, Im sorry, like what I forgot to mention was that, you know, when they had that 5-lot consolidation and resubdivision, what was also required, wisely by the Planning Department, was the setting aside of a 60-foot wide roadway easement thatwould effectively connect Kuakini Highway with the extension of the Queen Kaahumanu Highway; and this is the 60-foot wide roadway easement. The staff kind of generally, maybe I should just, first of all, talk about like the Puaa neighborhood, the neighborhood shopping center. Very briefly, I think that what motivated the Puaa to come forth with this neighborhood shopping center concept was primarily to look at trying to find an area that would service the needs of an under-served area; and at the same time by being able to service the need, youll be able to mitigate the trafficissue.AndIdliketodirectyoutothismapoverherewhichisamapthatwas,its Figure 10 that was taken out of the Countys Keahole to Honaunau Traffic Circulation Plan. And, generally, this first red dot here represents the area of Keauhou, and then this other dot here represents Kailua. And its basically like a 7-mile stretch between Keauhou and Kailua, and then, you know, you have essentially no commercial areas. So the thought was to have, and at the same time, if you look at these maps you can find like theres a lot of subdivisions coming along in that area. This is kind of like a blow-up of that particular area. Again, this is Keauhou and this is the subject property. What this map more accurately shows is that this area shaded in blue is the already existing Kahakai Estates Subdivision. This area on the mauka side of the extension of the Queen Kaahumanu Highway is the developing of Pualani Subdivision; and that Pualani Subdivision is basically on this map over here. If and when, not if, when that Pualani Subdivision is completed, there will be a new road that connects from, and this is Hualalai Road, there will be a new road that connects from Hualalai Road all the way down to the extension of the Queen Kaahumanu Highway in this particular area. So the thought that Mr. Cook and his people had was by having a neighborhood commercial center in this particular area, youd be able to capture a lot of the existing and developing residential homes in this, the central part of that area between Kailua and Keauhou. Because absent that youre taking, youre forcing the traffic to go either down to Keauhou or to Kailua and beyond. And so this is the whole idea. By having this extension, knowing that its going to be completed probably within the next year or 18 months at the latest, that this area will be fully signalized, this roadway will be completed. So the thought then was how youre going to bring this connection down to Kuakini Highway, and that was partially like this answer. At the time as we discussed it with the Planning Director, there was always the issue about, there were two issues, as it related to this proposed commercial neighborhood shopping center. One was that not trying to create a strip mall kind of appearance and, secondly, was still trying to see whether there was a way that some measure of affordable housing could be addressed within this particular area. So what you see on the map on 8