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down to lives versus money I think I know where the government should be on that. Now the good news on this is that I dont think the solutions are that difficult here. We have met with Mr.- Dr. Foulk and we have discussed this with Mr. Huggett as well and havent made any progress on getting these improvements in but I think that you know based on my discussions with the engineering folks that it doesnt seem like it should be too difficult. And you know, I may be wrong on that but Im definitely open to discussion. Ive spoken with Ki and Ron both down at the Engineering Department and what were looking for is something that meets the ITE standards, 24-feet with 20-foot flares. We think that this is reasonable. It was the DPWs preferred design. This is what they wanted. Theyre our Engineers we pay them money and if they say this is the design that we prefer I say thats the design we should have. If its buildable and its possible we should have it. Now theres going to be about over 4 million dollars spent on this project and Im guessing based on the price of real estate in Hawai¡i that theres going to be a lot of money made on the project as well. All were asking for is a small piece of that money to be spent on the driveway to improve public safety. Thats not that much to ask for. Someofthechangeswerelookingfor,wewantflaresincludedinthatcondition.Wedlike some vegetation changes made. From what I understand the vegetation changes are all on the County right-of-way so you know if we wanted to they could be ripped out at any minute but I mean were trying to be good neighbors here so wed like to work with people on this. And you know it may require some minor concessions from the neighbors. Theyre already talking to the V.I. folks, they need to get additional easements and make modifications to the handicap ramp. These facilities are already being touched. We think that we just need to improve that design a little bit it shouldnt be a major deal. My second little beef here is something that I came across and this was a year and a half ago. I hope its still not true but Im afraid it might be. I tried to get some location specific accident data to find out where the problem spots on Alii Drive were. When I called the police department I was informed that they couldnt give that out to citizens because of concerns about liability arguments. Now that would seem to be unconstitutional to me, thats public information I should be able to get it. Thats neither here nor there I can kind of understand why you wouldnt want lawyers digging around in that stuff but I found out later that the Planners, I spoke to the Planners here on the Big Island and Planners at the State in Hawai¡i and they said they didnt have access to this data. And you know I dont have any proof of that but if thats true thats not good. As somebody who plans an electric system I know- I have to know where the outages and the overloads are or I dont know where to spend my money to fix the problems. So, Im not sure if this is the right venue for that but Id like to think that somebody would get that problem fixed. I know Im taking up a lot of time here so Im going to kind of rush through the issues on the shoreline setback. You know we did have some concerns about the way the shoreline setback issue was handled in this case. Rule 8 and 11 do state that the Planning Commission and Department are charged with protecting the shoreline. Rule 11 states that the setback shall be 40-feet. They do allow a couple of exceptions, the one in this case was when, if a buildable area goes below 50% that they are able to go down to a 20-foot minimum setback. Now, weve kind of worked through this issue with Mr. Huggett and I want to say that you know, they have already made some concessions on the design of the building in the setback and were relatively happy with how that went. So my concern here is not so much with Mr. Huggetts project as it is with the process that we went through and since we dont have a contested case this is sort of my last chance to say anything so Id like to sort of chime in on the way the process worked on this. The 2 problems I have with Rule 11 are the deal with the- problem we ran into with the eroding shorelines. And the other one is in the definition it says EXHIBIT A 11