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know, area specifically. I mean it’s just, it will be the Parkway that’s going to really affect this corridor right here. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Yes. BOWMAN: Just a quick clarification. Your updated traffic impact analysis report th was the February 28 right? OKANEKU: Two thousand and eight. Yes. BOWMAN: Yes, 2008. Thank you. WATANABE: Yes, Ms. Siracusa. SIRACUSA: I’m not a traffic engineer but I have a lot of experience being stuck in traffic, and I’m pretty good in demographics. So I’m looking at this, the Level of Service E and the statement that it would not become a Level of Service F even if there were road improvements. But, you know, the population is going up, we have cumulative impacts every time more, every time we have another year with more babies being born and we have more people on this island. We have massive natural population increase. In addition to that we have in-migration to a tremendous extent. And it seems to me that these cumulative impacts have not been factored in when looking at how a Level of Service E could stay the same in eight years of population growth. I, you know, have been monitoring for many years the vital statistics column in the newspaper; and they used to come out only once a month and there would be maybe ten to 15 babies born. Now it comes out every week and there’s about 60. So we’re looking at a major, you know, geometrical expansion just in natural population. And it doesn’t seem to be taking into consideration at all how we have eight years from now, it’s 2008, until 2016, if they’re on schedule, hello, and here you’re talking about putting in 65 units where even if there’s only one car per unit you’re talking about an additional 120 trips a day in and out. Right? And in most cases those units would have two people in them and very often with two cars, so you’re doubling that.And I just, it doesn’t seem to me that this is a realistic evaluation of the levels of service that we can expect, considering where we’re starting from now, considering that the Police Department has already said that, hey, we already have a traffic problem. Would you please address this. OKANEKU: Okay, in my analysis when you talk about cumulative growth, what I usually do in a traffic analysis, I start with the baseline which is the existing condition; and on top of that I will add on what I call a background growth which pretty much is a combination of historical and regional expectation of population growth in the immediate area which I calculated about two percent. So that’s two percent per year. Okay? Now on top of that I added on the Keauhou Resort which is going to add 2,500 units into the resort over a 20-year timeframe, and then on top of that I added the Hokulia project which is another 700 plus units in over a ten-year timeframe I think I projected. So, I mean, there is some redundancy in there cause you would expect that Keauhou, Hokulia is part of that background growth. But because they’re so near and they’re, I guess, on the verge of becoming reality that I included that on top of the background growth. So there is a growth EXHIBIT B 22