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thelotsin areas, and just north of the little two lots its very, very severe. And so to build a road across that it would be quite a challenge, particularly forsuch a low density subdivision as this. We understand the comments that came back from the Department of Transportation, which was a little surprising since they had signed the construction drawings showing three permitted access points on the Highway. The conditions as I understand it now is that the Planning Department would like us to consolidate two of those access points into one. And so what were proposing to do would be to consolidate the middle and the northern access point, and align it across from the road that runs mauka. Okay, now by doing that were probably losing a lot, okay, because of just the nature of it. And then well have to build the frontage road running from the south and then to the north to pick up all of those other lots. So the number of access points will actually be decreased from three permitted accesses now to two. And to do oneand eliminate the one to the south would be an extreme hardship; and, you know, there are only two lots that access off of that southernmost access point now. GRAHAM:Okay, I think I understand you then on that. MOOERSSo then what wed up with would be an access point directly from, across fromKohalaEstates,thecul-de-sacthere;andthentherewouldbeacul-de-sacatthesouthern end that would accommodate just the two lots. GRAHAM:Right. And then the one on the northern end youre going to have to do some kind of a little lateral roadway to connect all the lots? MOOERS:Thats correct. And thered be a frontage road. We just have sketches. We havent engineered it yet; and what it would do is it would allow us then to eliminate then that third access point. And, again, thats one of the reasons we ask for flexibility about the public access because without that northern access point it now would create a very awkward situation to have public access and say, okay, you can park here at the cul-de-sac but now youre going to have to walk 1,000 feet to the north to pick up that mauka/makai trail. And to do that, we dont think thats really functional. So were trying to keep the flexibility so that we can put that trail through the middle of the project somehow or, you know, some way to get it there so that the people can park near the access point, and then design it to come down. But the drawings that you see were what the original subdivision had. And, you know, just in responding to the comments that Director Yuen has made, were trying to come up with some ideas; and we havent fully engineered any of those. GRAHAM:So do we have the two access maximum in the conditions? MOOERS:Yes, its my understanding it is. YUEN:No, we didnt put that in the SMA conditions because of the issues over putting traffic conditions in the SMA. And given the scale of the project, I didnt see that as being something that we would put in the SMA conditions. We did state in the recommendation, background and recommendation that it is our intent to limit to two access points to Akoni Pule in the subdivision process. Because in the subdivision that follows this we can clearly require that. Since the center lot, although it has an access to Akoni Pule it also has a flag going to the 6