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GRAHAM: Commissioner Rho, just on your issue like on the conditions of approval, C says access to the property from Highway 11 shall meet with the approval of the DOT. Yet there is some issue with the Department of Transportation you were saying, right? RHO: Well, it just concerned me that they brought that issue up and there is a response, but then I just noticed that it was basically a shared driveway. I’m not sure where that leads him, but I just wanted to point that out and get a comment from the applicant. GRAHAM: Are you following this closely, Mr. Yuen? YUEN: Well, I understand what he’s saying. I don’t want to take the condition out, simple. I think that has been a pretty standard condition. I think that they need to have a discussion themselves with the Department of Transportation emphasizing that the development is limited to the existing home and that perhaps the Department of Transportation will then not regard this as something that creates an issue for them, given that you have an existing access driveway that does serve a number of homes. As a practical matter, there’s no question of closing the driveway which would be more an attractive proposition from both, probably from the Department of Transportation’s point of view. You’d be in a position where the driveway would still be there, you would force them to create another driveway, you would have a condition that they could only use the Kukui Road driveway. On the other hand there would be other people using the existing driveway. So it’s a little, unless there’s some kind of physical barrier that then also prevents people from using that driveway to access their commercial property which I think is hard because it’s probably laid out already that you use that driveway -. So that’s why, you know, I don’t see us putting a condition in now that they must use Kukui Road. On the other hand I cannot see taking the existing condition out that says they have to get approval from Department of Transportation. GRAHAM: Mr. Lim, you had a -? LIM: Our plan was to basically approach the Department of Transportation and indicate to them to what the proposed use is, which would be relatively, you know, low impact we think; and we don’t believe that we’re going to be required to implement any further driveway improvements. I mean this area of the Highway 11 at Mamalahoa Highway is, I believe the right-of-way is only something like 50 feet and the pavement maybe at 40. So at some point in time if the Department of Transportation desires to improve that roadway they’re going to need additional right-of-way. And the big question is going to be whether to take out those trees fronting this property and other properties along the roadway. So I think that big decision is going to be made some time after we’re all out of here. YUEN: What’s the speed limit there? LIM: It’s 35 at the long stretch and drops to 25 fronting the school. YUEN: And there is that neighboring CV property which does have a driveway access. EXHIBIT B 8