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you elevating enough, not only the flood plain become wider but the flood plain is going to become higher. So we're trying to do that and be more conscientious in the zoning area, but I don't have -, as apart from being aware that these -, the historical floodways that are shown on the FEMA maps are not written in some kind of -, they're not some kind of absolute and we're absolutely safe if we follow those and respect those. I don't have a solution right now? SPRINGER:Thank you. And then the Mohouli Extension question. YUEN:Okay. We didn't -, I don't know. I don't know how the Mohouli Extension, which ends a half a mile or so uphill from this piece of property, really impacts the traffic on Kilauea. I'm sure there's been a general growth of traffic on Kilauea just as there has been on other areas, but the current phase of Mohouli Extension doesn't -, it ends up on Komohana Street, which is say a half a mile away. SPRINGER:Thank you. BLACK:May I add some things? Is that appropriate? FUJIKAWA:Just a minute. Are you done, Director? You may go ahead if only it's a question. BLACK:I can provide a little insight into what's happening with the Mohouli Street Extension. Ever since that roadway was opened, what's happened is now Lanikaula Street has become a conveyor belt for big trucks, a lot of them like from places like Glover that are going out of the industrial area. Rather than taking the intersection at Mohouli and Kilauea, they take Lanikaula Street. They can take it all the way up to Kumukoa and then make their left to go up top, so we've had a huge increase in traffic. And one of the things that the Ishiharas had mentioned when we were discussing it that was not specifically outlined in my letter is that right now the traffic is so bad it's impossible to make a left turn out of my driveway. I can't make a left turn out of my driveway, I have to go right. I have to feed into the Kilauea intersection because I can't get out of my home without it. Now if we put additional commercial development on Kilauea, then that just has that much more traffic coming and going onto that street. To even suggest that eliminating the widening of the road is a consideration is just not okay. But the thing, just going back to the relevancy of this whole dialog, because I, again, you know, you guys, this is your thing. This is not our thing. We're just trying to educate ourselves so we can protect what we care about. It's my understanding that not every zoning change gets an ordinance. Not every time you want to change zoning it goes to the County Council. Is that correct? YUEN:No. Every change of zone goes to the County Council, yes. BLACK:Okay. Because when this ordinance was originally amended, on the first read, it did have the language, it did say may initiate, and that was specifically struck out and 26