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WOODWARD: All right. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Do we have any questions for Mr. Smith? Okay, seeing none, Joyce Folena, youÓre next. FOLENA: Thank you, sir. My name is Joyce Folena. IÓve been a r years. My Post Office Box 2046, Phoa, HawaiÒi, 96778. I live south of Phoa. IÓve been there for, gee, almost 11 years. I thank you for the opportunity to s before me, including the attorneys and the representatives of various business establishments, have been very clear in what they said. And IÓm going to add to their testimony with what I feel as a community member and the fact that there is no other route except Highway 130, the Bypass, or Highway 130 at Mile Post 10 entering Phoa Village Road going through Phoa. We have no other routes. We have no other choices. I would like to say I demand something but I have to say IÓd ask for it. But as the citizen of the United States and of the State of HawaiÒi and the County of HawaiÒi, I have an assumption that the first priority is public safety over development profit. And I donÓt have any feelings of animosity towards LongÓs Drugs Store, or Burger King, or Kentucky Fried Chicken, or the developer, or Mr. McElvaney. What I do have terrible, terrible fears about is that if that development opens before Kahakai Boulevard is opened to the Bypass weÓre going to have serious traffic problems augmenting an already seriously hazardous traffic area because of Mile Post 10 receiving that F LOS (level of service) way back in 2006. Because of Malama Market intersection, which I believe is called the KeaÒau-Phoa Old Road intersection with Phoa Village Road, that is an extremely dangerous intersection. In my untrained and civilian attitude Kahakai Boulevard reaching Phoa Village Road, the improvements there are deficient. We need a signal light. There are no additional turn lanes from Ka completed, or constructed to Phoa Village Road. ThatÓs a kind of a little intersection to han the additional traffic that absolutely will be generated when LongÓs Drive-in window capacity and foot traffic opens, when Kentucky Fried Chicken opens and when Burger King opens. We have to make allowances for the additional traffic that will be when this development opens. If they open in November to take a holiday rush, and people make a lot of money, people make tons of money at Christmas, before Kahakai Boulevard is open, I dare say that the liability to the County, the State, and the developer are extremely high. May I have 30 seconds, sir? WOODWARD: All right, sure. FOLENA: Thank you. The guard rail is not in place with an elevation drop with 12 to 13 feet between the border of Phoa Village Road and Woodland CenterÓs property. IÓve spoken to DOTÓs representatives about that, and theyÓve assured me that that is going to be mitigated -- I hope thatÓs what Jiro was talking about in that brief phone call -- and that the guard rail will be in place before they get their certificate of occupancy. ThatÓs a distance from Kahakai Boulevard- Phoa Village Road intersection for approximately, I donÓt know, a few hundred feet, almost half way in my untrained eye, to Mile Post 10. Thank you. WOODWARD: All right, thank you. Do we have any questions? Okay, no. Seeing none, okay, Mr., is it Sumida or Sumada? You were spelled two different ways here. 11 EXHIBIT A