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WATANABE: Yeah, Ki, I’ve got a question. You know, if you are going to improve it and it’s already substandard meaning it’s too narrow, one lane, do we have the entitlements to someday in the future make those improvements, or would you recommend that we -? You know, ’cause sometimes we do put a condition in your way, you have like a five or ten-foot future road widening condition. Would that help? EMLER: I’m sure it would be advisable to put a road-widening setback requirement on the permit, if the Planning Director is so willing to do that in his recommendation. But, yes, the recommendation for this Application was made by my predecessor years ago, and I didn’t make any changes; I didn’t put any recommendation in for changes, so -. Perhaps I should have, but -. WATANABE: Okay. Then my next question is if we were to consider a road-widening condition, is it five feet, ten feet? And I realize it’s probably not going to occur in the immediate foreseeable future but what in general what is your -. EMLER: Well, I would see this as perhaps in the future being as much as – but probably not more than – a 50-foot right-of-way, so I would just recommend half the difference between the existing roadway and a 50-foot right-of-way. So they would be providing a setback for a half of the widening on their side. I don’t know what the width is in the frontage of their property to be able to state a particular width. WATANABE: Okay, that sounds rather significant, though. Although this is 2.1 acres, yeah? Isn’t it? YUEN: Before we get that far down this line of thought, you know, looking at the site plan and my recollection of the site, there are stonewalls lining this property, which – whether they qualify as historic site, they are certainly part of the historic ambience of the area. There are stonewalls lining much of the road in the whole area. And I think that I wouldn’t be part of any initiative by the County to tear down those stonewalls to widen the Puuhonua Road. I just would not – I’d say forget it. I mean, live with the traffic, you know, institute some kind of controls. But to tear down the existing stonewalls that line the road, I just can’t see doing that. So and that’s what would be involved in any kind of road widening on this side of property. GRAHAM: Thank you. EMLER: I think that was somewhat behind my not making any further recommendations on this Application because the area is sensitive, so -. Thank you. GRAHAM: I thank you, Mr. Yuen and Mr. Emler. Commissioner Watanabe, do you have a follow-up? WATANABE: Yeah, I’ve got a follow-up for the Director. And I didn’t notice stonewalls and I agree with you; if they’re historical, we probably shouldn’t be looking at tearing them down. On the other hand, some other way of addressing the condition suitable for the testifiers here might be to limit the scope somewhat of what this project can do. We’ve done that in the past where we’ve said no more than X amount of people at any given time, and I’m wondering if that might work to their satisfaction where we limit it to, you know, 20 people or something like EXHIBIT A 7