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HOUSEL: Any other Commissioners? I had one question. This application was originally, and the Environmental Assessment, produced in 2004. B. MOORE: Yes. HOUSEL: And at that time, the Department of Transportation suggested that, because Akoni- Pule is a fairly heavily traveled highway, that a traffic impact analysis report may need to be done. Have you done that traffic impact analysis report? B. MOORE: Yes, we have. The traffic is really a -. We have a condition on the zoning. WeÓre anticipating that -. The property has a condition on the zoning that all access improvements need to meet, comply with the Department of Transportation. One of our real concerns in the feasibility of this project is whether intersection improvements are going to be required. So weÓve been working with them for almost a year and a half on those improvements. We have completed a traffic impact analysis report, we have submitted it discussions with them. As of this morning we actually have a preliminary response from them saying that no improvements are required. But our traffic impact analysis found that at build-out of the improvements we are going to operate, the intersection on Akoni-Pule Highway will operate at Level of Service A. And this is an A to F, so from a school teacherÓs standpoint, itÓs a good thing. So you know, we are confident that there will not be traffic impacts. A couple of reasons, just for, just as background: One is that we are not operating in the morning; we are not planning to serve breakfast. We donÓt compete with the morning A.M. peak traffic. The P.M. peak traffic is an early traffic in this area; itÓs really 3:15 to 4:15 or so. And the dinner-after- work crowd restaurant actions are after that. So the activities of the restaurant donÓt compete with the peak hour traffic activities in this area. Traffic is fairly low. Speed limits are low. And just for the information, when we did our traffic analysis, we used a 200-seat restaurant and 5,000 square feet of commercial area, and right now we are looking at a 175-seat restaurant based on our water. And we are possibly looking at actually smaller than that. So we are downsizing. Our traffic analysis was based on much more, less conservative amount of, again, higher amount of traffic than we believe we are going to generate. HOUSEL: When was the TIAR done? B. MOORE: It was done, we submitted in February of this year to the Department of Transportation. HOUSEL: Have you provided a copy to the Planning Department? B. MOORE: No, we have not. We can do that. But you know, again, we have the preliminary results from our traffic engineer at the time saying that there would not be any impact, so thatÓs what we disclosed in our background report. HOUSEL: Okay, because I did not see any copy of that in the background information. Commissioners, any further questions of the applicant? 7 EXHIBIT A