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a problem in both directions where if you’re coming down Queen Kalama you look to the left there’s a, I don’t know my landscaping, but there’s a -. ATTA: Bougainvillea. OKANEKU: Bougainvillea brush that obstructs the view to the left; and to the right there’s a cut rock’s face that’s obstruct the view to the right. So as far as Alii Drive, their capacity there is probably, my projections anyway, looks to, that to the year 2020 it won’t go beyond the Level of Service D, which is considered a minimum acceptable level of service by the County. So as far as the, the facility itself there’s a lot of capacity there. And it’s just that one intersection itself there’s a physical constraint, not necessarily an operational one but a physical one which translate into a safety, you know, constraint. Sight distance there is, my guess it would be around 200 feet, which is sufficient for what we would term call stopping sight distance, which is the minimum, the bare minimum where somebody traveling Alii Drive sees somebody coming out of Queen Kalama would be able to stop safely without a crash. But the current standard is that a person coming out of Kalama, Queen Kalama Avenue should be able to turn onto Alii Drive without interfering at all with Alii Drive. So that’s the optimum condition where somebody turning onto Alii Drive won’t slow down traffic on Alii Drive or create a crash. WATANABE: We have any, Mr. -? RHO: Therefore, the turn lanes? OKANEKU: Yes. That’s, well, one of the, I guess, mitigation measures. But the turn lane doesn’t satisfy the sight distance yet. That just reduces the delay on Alii Drive traffic. You still need to clear the corner, basically the corner sight distance from Queen Kalama looking out toward Alii Drive. RHO: In the report it’s Exhibit 3, and further on it’s Exhibit, if you can just mark it, it’s Exhibit 3, Exhibit 4 -. DARROW: Commissioner Rho, would this be -? RHO: And Exhibit, you don’t have that? DARROW: Would this be the Planning Department’s exhibits or the Applicant’s exhibits? RHO: I guess it’s the Planning Department’s, 15, 15, 3 and 4. It’s near the back of the thick document. And as all the other Commissioners mentioned, I didn’t get a chance to read everything in this document, especially the last couple of pages. And my understanding is the last couple of pages you folks are responding to some of the comments made by either the Police Department, the Traffic Safety Committee or the Public Works Department. And admitting that, I wanted to ask you about specifically Exhibit 3, page 3, EXHIBIT B 17