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GALDONES:Okay, Mr. Saunders, you may begin. SAUNDERS:Robert Saunders, Hilo, Hawaii. The thing I would be concerned about -. First of all, if thereÓs a concern about left, no left turns at the top of Sarona Road, I donÓt know whatÓs keeping the County from doing it right now. I think they could do it. But, secondly, I think we need to have a better idea of what, how extensive these improvements are. ThatÓs why I need -. And I apologize to you folks, too bad these discussions are happening now in front of all you so late in the day and all these technical type things. I had hoped we had this, I thought we had things th worked out and now this thing comes up at the 12 hour. I donÓt want to be in a situation, I would like to avoid a situation where thereÓs not some limit to the extent of the improvements we would have to make in order to open our hote had earlier that talked about Sarona was very clean and defined and thatÓs why we could agree to it. As we get further into that intersection, I know that can be very, very expensive. I donÓt have a handle of what those costs would be. If weÓre talking about getting reimbursed at some point in the future, we can certainly do that. But if itÓs talking about us paying for work out into Kuakini without having a better feel for the extent of those improvements, it would be difficult to agree to that. YUEN:Let me -. You can turn left from Sarona now but you donÓt 76-room hotel there, which greatly increases the number of people that might want to turn left. Your analysis on traffic assumes that the Kuakini pr SAUNDERS:It looks at both ways, with or without. YUEN:And then what are the improvements proposed if itÓs without? SAUNDERS:I would rather have the traffic engineer talk about that. FUKE:Can I, IÓm not a traffic engineer. But before going down t IÓm just kind of wondering, just a question of the Planning Director. You know, in light all of the discussions, wouldnÓt the, your amended proposed Cond know, amended as was presented this morning, you know, by your s pretty much like along the lines of what youÓre trying to further clarify and -?. ÒCause it would read that ÐShould the Kuakini Highway improvement project planned by the County not commence prior to the opening of the hotel, as represented by the Applicant, the Applicant shall improve the section of Sarona Road to accommodate two-way traffic from Kuakini Highway to the western most makai portion of the property,Ñ and everything, Ðand meeting with the approval of the Department of Public Works prior to occupancy of the hotel.Ñ YUEN:The difficulty I have with not saying ÐintersectionÑ is that there is some work on Kuakini connected with improving the intersection, I mean, improving Sarona Road. ThereÓs a transition from Kuakini into Sarona and out of Sarona, and I think thatÓs the, thatÓs really the extent of the, that and the island are the extent of the 11