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And it seems to me that the more traffic is generated the more the chances are increased that that
<br />sort of thing might happen.
<br />CORWIN:May I say something?
<br />SPRINGER:Proceed, Ms. Corwin.
<br />CORWIN:I just want to say that I appreciate the concern and the safety, of course.
<br />And like Teresa said, Im, were just kind of concerned that, you know, were kind of going to
<br />get penalized or be held responsible for the safety of the road. And, you know, of course, I care
<br />about people, ourselves, our guests, but I dont felt that we should be held responsible for that
<br />necessarily. And, personally, you know, I havent had any problem with it. It is very steep and
<br />winding coming down the initial 3/10, I guess, it would be, 3/10 of a mile. And its kind of a
<br />roughroad,sopeoplekindoftendtogotothemiddleoftheroadandstraddleitthatway.But
<br />when you get down to about the 3/10, which as I tried to show on these pictures, which is
<br />approximately 2/10 up from where we are or 1,000 feet, the road smooths out. Its not a rough
<br />road. I dont see people driving down the middle of the road or anything. And it kind of, you
<br />know, it definitely levels out somewhat. Its still going downhill but it kind of goes like this, it
<br />kind of rolls down. And then where were located, you know, through the trees you can see our
<br />home, thats also on some of these pictures. The double solid line turns in, one line turns into a
<br />dashed line. You know, we have some reflectors; hopefully, we would have some signage or
<br />something. And we tell people exactly half a mile. I mean, if youre watching your odometer,
<br />you cant miss it. So as far as locating our property, we dont really feel that thats problem.
<br />And coming out on the road, I understand your concern; and theres, you know, somewhat
<br />limited vision there. But I just want to say Ive been here for a year and I havent had any
<br />problem with that. And, you know, from watching the traffic it can be from, you know, 5 cars or
<br />less an hour coming and going up and down that road to maybe 15 or 20 at the most an hour, you
<br />know, depending on what time of the day.
<br />And I just also want to clarify like the 8 guests -. You know, there will probably one car, we
<br />were thinking of like families or something like that to be able to accommodate four people in a
<br />room. So I cant imagine having more than two cars there for the guests. And I would expect to
<br />be doing most of the massage for the guests, and maybe one or two additional cars a day.
<br />SPRINGER:Thank you, Ms. Corwin. Commissioner Siracusa, do you have any follow
<br />up?
<br />SIRACUSA:I just wanted to thank her for clarifying some of that.
<br />SPRINGER:Mr. Director, youve heard the comments on the, perhaps, the sight
<br />distance and the steepness of the road. Do you have any comments on that with regard to this
<br />rather modest application?
<br />YUEN:Well, scale is everything. And weve looked at bed and breakfast as being
<br />of such a small scale in terms of additional traffic that we havent imposed any kinds of
<br />requirements for improvements. I mean you cant say never. If somebody were, a bed and
<br />breakfast in Waipio Valley, for example, where you have to go down the Waipo Valley Road, I
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