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government roads, including roads in old territorial homesteads. ItÓs my understanding that the Kohanaiki Road is a government road. Over the years the County and State have disputed the responsibility for the roads in limbo. ItÓs my belief that the roads in limbo that, unfortunately, that the way the laws work is that they are County responsibility. The County is developing a program to try to take care of these roads. ItÓs a major, major responsibility because there are hundreds of miles of these roads and most of them are extremely substandard and donÓt even have an adequate right-of-way to be improved. So thatÓs a major problem. But, you know, this is a long answer to the Commission talked about or heard about roads in limbo a lot, I thought it was a decent time to talk about this and explain this. GOODALE:Does that mean that they will remove the ÐEnd of County RoadÑ sign on that road and begin to maintain that or is it going to continue to be the end of County road? YUEN:There are two issues here. One is, is the County, ultimately, is it under the CountyÓs jurisdiction? And the answer to that is going to be yes. And the second question, what is the County going to do about maintaining the roads? I canÓt say that the result of this is going to be the County is going to maintain, actively maintain, more roads than it currently does. As to whether the sign like that will be removed, I canÓt really comment on that. GOODALE:The sign denotes its ownership and youÓre saying that you do, at this point, claim ownership but not responsibility for maintaining? Is that what youÓre saying? YUEN:These roads are under, itÓs my view that these roads are under County jurisdiction. Whether, that does not mean that the County has to actively maintain all roads that are under its jurisdiction. These include outright paper roads. GOODALE:Okay, so that sign you would say would be incorrect to be there because it disclaims ownership of that road, or -? YUEN:And I havenÓt studied the area specifically. But if this road is, as I think it is, a homestead road, a government road, then the road would be under County jurisdiction. GOODALE:Okay. Thank you. The road that exists there, to continue on, I wanted to clarify that, first, the road as it exists there is a very narrow road, itÓs a one-lane road. ItÓs a road that we commonly have to back up when we pass another car, and there are pull-outs on this road. There are steep grades in some areas on both sides of the road and there is a fairly high density in a certain, in certain areas of that road of, say, 15,000 square foot lots. In different sections, it does not lend itself to a through way. We did have a significant problem a while back before Kona Hills put the rock wall across the roadway with motorcycles and cars transiting that, and that has since ceased. WeÓre pleased with that and weÓd like it to remain that way; and weÓd like to prevent that from 18