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it went back to the DOT. So that has always been in the process; and it was always the first thing we considered. I wanted to add also that the developer, you know, if you look at the ordinance it says access to this property will be from Kahakai Boulevard. The DOT at that time didnÓt make any recommendations for that ordinance. All that was said was that there will be a left-turn out of Kahakai on the Old Phoa Road, and a right turn. So that sounded really simple. So projection on that intersection was about $350,000. Then it said we should have a 50-foot right turn going on to Old Phoa Road. So we needed to extend that right turn. WeÓll, weÓve extended it to a hundred feet; and not only that, we added a full left-turn lane. If you look at that Malama Market intersection, we added a full-right turn, long right-turn lane, that is not there now, well, itÓs there now cause we constructed it already, and then we added a long left-turn lane going out. We widened the Malama Market intersection which is going to help Malama Market but also all the traffic there. Then we added a left Î now this is all in addition to the DOT asking for improvements; and weÓre agreeing for those improvements. We into Malama Market which isnÓt there. It wasnÓt there. We widened the Old Phoa Road and the Kahakai Boulevard Road, and added more lanes. This is all done by the developer. The price keeps going up and up. But weÓve done everything that DOT asked us to do. And in the review process, it took way too long, which is part of the reason that weÓre here now. We could have finished this six months earlier, at least six months earlier. So I just wanted to add those things. And we are totally in support of the Puna Development Plan. We agree that the, all the work that DOT is doing now. We recognize the fact that they could not get back to us on their reviews because they were overloaded with all kinds of airport work and big projects on Oahu and Maui; and our project, you know, sometimes was not the most important thing on the menu. But we do support the community. We do support all of the things that need to be done. WeÓre not arguing with any of it. LongÓs has been another, it was kind of hard getting them all together, but they are actually almost ready for occupancy now. So IÓm thinking that possibly to alleviate this problem maybe we can open this intersection incrementally so we donÓt open all of the stores at the same time. Something like that we can maybe work out. But thank you. WOODWARD: All right, thank you. Commissioner Ishibashi. ISHIBASHI: Thank you, Mr. Chair. And we appreciate developerÓs cooperation with the public and State and County. But try address that guard rail, if you recognize the location and how weÓre going mitigate that? MCELVANEY: I, you know, we have to rely on the engineers and the traffic engineers. And that never had, that hadnÓt come up at all. And maybe because this is o speed limit in here. So thereÓs not a high speed problem. But neither the DOT, or County, or SSFM, or EIP, no one had mentioned that. So I, this is the first time I have heard about it. WOODWARD: Director Lee. LEE: Regarding the guard rail situation. So, Mr. McElvaney, as the ownerÓs rep, would you be okay with using the model that Mr. Sumada described earlier on working on that intersection? That will at least address if there is a guard rail problem or, and if thereÓs a guard rail solution. 17 EXHIBIT A