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MOORE:You know, I donÓt know. What I do know is that the access, that the legal access restrictions on the Belt Highway I think stop lower, so itÓs more by policy that, I donÓt think they have the actual bubbles where they have bought the access rights. At the same time, DOT like, you know, canÓt landlock so believe that she would have a right and that needs to get worked out. But I donÓt believe that they have legal access restrictions on this. I believe it is by policy. But I have not checked the actual DOT rights-of-way in this section of the highway. YUEN:Okay. I think then we can leave it as described and then this testifier needs to work on securing a driveway permit if there is not one from the Department of Transportation. Just as a matter of commenting on the big picture, the driveways onto the Volcano Highway are going to be a long-term problem. TheyÓre part of the bottleneck in, that exists in South Kona, the Mamalahoa Highway especially because you just have driveways coming out of the highway every which way. Had this been the one driveway, you know, long stretch of the highway, I might have tried to work toward a condition where they would get an easement and go to the subdivision road eventually rather than come off onto the highway. But there being a row of houses that are there that all have driveways, there is very little point in trying to accomplish, they would not really accomplish anything. I just want to mention this as something as a long-term issue that you ought to keep, that we keep in the back of our minds when we look at rezonings and that the Commission ought to, that when we look at rezonings now, we are trying to have access restrictions to the major highways so that you donÓt have subdivisions that have multiple driveways coming into the major roads, and rather they would come off onto a feeder road like Huina Road in this situation rather than directly to a highway. FUJIKAWA: Is there any other question from the Commissioners of the DirectorÓs -. Go ahead, Commissioner Kubota. KUBOTA:Yeah, before going into the formal move, I would like to and revisit Condition D as in Dog, that portion that relates to the deletion of improvements to County dedicable standards from, and the suggestion by Mr. Moore that we delete the phrase Ðfrom the Belt Highway.Ñ IÓm not too sure that I want to delete that. If the intent of the subdivider is not to put the access on Huin to Highway 11, then having that phrase there ought not to create too much of a hardship. Or what is your intent, what is your motive in moving that out, that phrase out, Bill, Ðfrom the Belt Highway to the subdivision entrance road?Ñ I mean, what was your intent in deleting that so that you would not have to bring it up to County dedicable standards on those two properties that are on the corner of your subdivision or -? MOORE:Yes, that is the intent. IÓm happy to address this. I may want to continue with the public testimony and then come back to -. KUBOTA:Oh, okay. 15