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Its kind of ironic to, like when you talk about, you know, like the Commission has dealt with a lot of applications in the Kona area. And they talk about connectivities, and people dont want connectivities in Kona especially, they talk about trying to introduce traffic calming, you know, whether its the roundabout or putting speed humps and all that kind of stuff. And, you know, ironically this is more of a residential than it is not a residential area. And perhaps some of the traffic issues associated in the area may be not so much locally generated traffic as much as having a lot of these cross streets serve as a through streets by people traveling from Lanikaula going to Kekuanaoa or whatever have you. And I think its typical. But I think to some extent what limits a person from possibly utilizing this as opposed to going on Manono Street, for example, is that if youre crossing town and, you know, Kekuanaoa Street is your problem, so you know, you try to hit the traffic limits, and thats at Manono Street; and so Manono is probably a little bit more heavily traveled. Ontheissueoftheflooding,itsregrettable,IcanappreciateandunderstandwhattheSaitosand Abes were talking about. And I think that Mr. Nekoba was pointing out to some pictures about the flooding at the corner of Lanikaula and Laukapu Streets. But if memory serves me correctly, and perhaps the staff can correct me on that, but when the use permit was issued for that particular medical facility, there was a requirement for curb, gutter and sidewalk in that area. And whether it was deferred or for some reason deleted, Im not really aware; or if its not true then I would stand corrected. But, you know, in conjunction with all developments as the Commissioners know, there are usually like the attendant responsibility to take care of the basic necessities especially fronting your property. Mr. Nekoba talked about the Pacific Townhouse Project; and that is true. If you look at Kukuau Street and you go on that Kumukoa Street, yeah, its wide street and all that stuff. But when RSM came to do that development, that was their entire property that they had to do curb, gutter, sidewalk and for the full improvements. But if you get beyond that point, and youre heading makai, youll find that Kukuau Street begins to narrow. So what were saying over here is that like, and to some extent what Mr. Hirano indicated, is that yes, if government is not going to do it and developers are going to do it, and the individual homeowners do not want to make some improvements, that through development you allow for piecemeal type of infrastructure improvements. And, hopefully, at some point in time there will be a full level of improvements done. I do recall also that photo shown by Mr. Nekoba on Mohouli Street. It may look funny right now. But at some point in time when Mr. Ahunas property begins to develop at the far end and those intervening parcels develop, then you will find curb, gutter and sidewalk stretching from Dr. Camachos building all the way down to Kinoole Street. ALAMEDA:Fellow Commissioners, theres a lot in front of us at this time. Weve heard testimony from five individuals. We also heard a response from Mr. Fuke regarding some of the concerns. What are your guys thoughts? Discussion? Or any questions first for our applicant before he sits? All right seeing none, you can be seated. All right, Commissioner Graham. GRAHAM:This is kind of hard for me. Basically I have been supporting the sort of mixed use concept here in Waiakea and all. And I think with the Planning Directors particular restrictions as far as the height limitation and as far as the extra parking spaces, he has really 23EXHIBIT C