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to the ranch is. He is correct, there is a way to get onto the property, Òcause it is connected. The property goes all the way from the ocean up to M the highway to Mauna Loa. But that area would have to have considerable reconstruction because itÓs kind of a hill. The only way we used to use it is on horseback and we used to go up through the school. I know that traffic has been addressed numerous times. Before we heard about this project, we were concerned about the traffic. It is stacked up all the way to Sakamoto for the kids coming to school because youÓre serving the three complexes of the elementary, the middle and the high schools. For the next year, the middle school is going to be expanding Òcause itÓs dealing with the sixth grade, the seventh grade and eighth grade coming from Hookena School, as well as Honaunau. So not only do we have a traffic congestion, now weÓre going to have a tremendous traffic congestion when we have the addition of the kids. My concern is not having that left-hand turn lane. When youÓre going up Konawaena as it is now, itÓs only two lanes. You canÓt get around cars that are trying to make that left- hand turn lane into HkkanoÓs property which is, you know, very rarely someone actually turns in there. But if you have an eco-tourism and thatÓs a staging area, I would assume that thereÓs going to be a lot more traffic. So if you consider eliminating that left- hand turn lane, it would have a dramatic effect on the traffic with our kids going in and out. My other concern that I heard is no sidewalks. There is a sidewalk on the KaÓu side of the house, of the existing house on that property. There is no sidewalk on the makai side of that property. It just says mauka of Mmalahoa. Right now, most of us parents do not allow our children to walk that short distance because of the da kids have a little problem with the heavy foot and their cars do zoom up and down that road, as well as the buses. My daughter very infrequently but sometimes needs to go to the school, to the house, just Kohala side of KingÓs Mansion. I will not allow her to walk on that very short amount of space because of the traffic. And itÓs just not safe, thereÓs no sidewalk there. There are very few cars coming out of the proposed entrance and exit of Hkkano now, just the people that are living up the mountain. But there have been people coming out of there, kids stepping off and stepping into the way of those few cars going in and out. So I would suggest we look at that as putting in a sidewalk later. I think itÓs a safety concern for our kids. As far as, I just had a question, as far as general cleanup of the area, the area where they say the shop is on, that has been a shop area for at least 40 to 50 years that I know of. ThatÓs where the family used for maintenance of all their diesel equipment. I had a question as to whether or not the gasoline and propane tanks, I mean, gasoline and diesel tanks have been removed. When we used to ranch the property, we Petroleum delivering diesel and gasoline. So I was concerned as to whether or not they 25