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WATANABE: Yes. The condition as worded does state that. I think the discussion really is surrounding how that would actually be enforced to ensure that right turn in, right turn out is what actually occurs. Ms. Ogata? OGATA: I was just trying to think of an example in Hilo where this is occurring; and I think that this might be a good one. By going up Kawailani and the Kinoole intersection, there’s a Shell Station I think if you’re going up on the left hand side on that corner, and there’s a sign on the driveway that says no left turn. So if you’re going up Kawailani you cannot make, or you’re not supposed to make a left turn into that driveway. So I’m just wondering if that’s the type of signage that they’re talking about. WATANABE: Are you familiar with that and do you think maybe there’s room on this particular site to achieve that? YUEN: My concern about it is how you specify that there’s no left turn into this property specifically. Because the people, you know, there’s a house next to them and another house and another house, and somebody who visits them is not in violation if they turn left. I suspect that the applicant typically turns left into their own driveway. And if we pass this as it stands you’re not supposed to be turning left into your own property, nor your customers and clients; and this is my concern. This is what they asked for, Public Works; and I don’t like to sit here and say just take it out.They did express -- you know, we have either in a letter or an email -- their concern about what happens when, because this is quite close to the Kilauea intersection, somebody may want to turn left and -. The situation is this, that there is a signal there and so you can have cars stacked up at the intersection of Kilauea and Lanikaula, on Lanikaula Street. Somebody turns, somebody is planning to go to the property and they get onto Lanikaula Street and they can’t turn left, they can’t actually make a left turn because the cars are stacked up. But say they are allowed to make a left turn, well, they’re going to wait there until the traffic clears and they can make that left turn. Meantime, people are trying to turn, say on the signal they may be trying to turn left from Kilauea onto Lanikaula and then within less than 100 feet from the intersection they have a car that’s waiting now to turn left on the property. Now this can happen today. It’s in an RS zone but you don’t have as much traffic as you do in an RS zone. So honestly I think we should either defer this, and the other possibility is to approve it with a condition that really scales down what kind of development they can do. And between the two I would say that we really ought to figure out what the access is, how this is supposed to work. WATANABE: Yes, Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman, I have a problem with restricting certain uses that would normally be permitted in a zoned district. And in this particular case perhaps we’ll be saying that this zoning would permit only an office use for this particular business which is selling insurance. I think what we can just do is just insert a general condition that, you know, the applicant will adhere to and will defer to the demands of the Public Works, and that’s it. WATANABE: Okay with that said, you know, earlier I had suggested removing Kilauea Avenue and the Lanikaula Street, and later on I indicated that the only way you can physically really restrict this is by placing curbs on the actual site that would deter people from making a left turn in from either Lanikaula or Kilauea Avenue. And so, you know, if we’re going to go ahead and proceed in that manner without restricting the actual activity possibly we should leave EXHIBIT A 12