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ocean for recreational use. Another example would be that where we could consider access <br />would be if the access is so bad it affected the ability to evacuate people from the site. So we <br />have some ability to consider traffic but not just traffic per say, as we would in a you know, <br />rezoning. <br />IWASHITA:Thank you. As a follow up then. Again looking at the long range <br />perspective on safety and evacuation and those kinds of concerns that as this area develops and <br />the area around it behind the mauka of it develops you€ll see that you know the access issues <br />evacuation routes and all of those kind of issues would be impacted by how this parcel is <br />developed. And I guess a suggestion that consideration be given to long-term looking at using <br />part of the access to this property to get mauka and provide access and possible evacuation routes <br />for mauka properties. Or actually for this property and the people who live here in the tsunami <br />kind of scenario in the future where Alii Drive is totally built out and not necessarily the safest <br />way to go especially if there€s a locally generated tsunami you would want an immediate <br />evacuationroutethatwouldtakeyoustraightmaukafromthisproperty.Iwould.IfIhavehalf <br />an hour to get out of where I am because of the locally generated tsunami you don€t want to be <br />stuck on Alii Drive with a 20-foot wall of water coming down on you. So, I think that these <br />traffic, those kind of concerns seems to me, you know should be properly addressed in this <br />proceeding. <br />GRAHAM:All right Commissioner, excuse me Director Yuen? <br />YUEN:Yeah I just wanted, the long term, the long term access plan to the area as <br />far as mauka-makai access would be down where, the extension of Lako Street, which would <br />intersect with Alii Drive a little bit to the north about, probably about a half a mile to the north of <br />this. That, that is the project that the Department of Public Works is actively pursuing. <br />GRAHAM:We€re also, I gotta remind you that we€re on the part of questioning the <br />applicants not working on all of the issues that we need to work out at this point in time. So, I€d <br />like to keep it at that and then we can move on and get testimony from the public and all. So do <br />we have any further questions for the applicant? <br />IWASHITA:I want to direct this? <br />GRAHAM:Fine. <br />IWASHITA:I would like the applicant, you know your thoughts now about you know <br />these long term kind of issues which I, personally I think come directly into play. And <br />considering this permit approval of this (inaudible) because I think if you talk to Harry Kim <br />based on his civil defense background that you know it is not an unlikely scenario that you know <br />we have a locally generated tsunami where we won€t have hours to respond that it€ll be minutes. <br />It€ll be less than an hour and it can be a rather devastating, you know we€ve never seen one <br />recently. The most recently is like Hanape which you know didn€t generate a real large tsunami <br />but in that scenario I don€t think you know we can ignore that potentiality and if there are no <br />provisions today in the long term for a mauka-makai access and evacuation routes that you know <br />frankly. Today on Alii drive I think if you had a locally generated tsunami many people would <br />EXHIBIT <br />9 <br /> <br />