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to accommodate such claims.” Therefore, it would seem to me that it would be important to find out if there are legitimate claims; and that’s why I was asking him if he had done any outreach in that respect. So I just, I didn’t have it in front of me when I was asking the question. But after that I found the citation, so I just wanted to point that out to you. ALAMEDA:Any questions for Dr. Hahn? Seeing none, you may leave. Thank you. Or you can stay. Going back to Commissioner Iwashita. FUKE:Mr. Chairman, I’d like to acknowledge the presence of Mr. Warren Yamamoto who is the traffic engineer and a consultant to M&E Pacific, the firm that was retained to do the traffic study. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Mr. Yamamoto. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawai`i County Planning Commission? YAMAMOTO:Yes. ALAMEDA:Could you please state your name and address for the record? YAMAMOTO:My name is Warren Yamamoto at M&E Pacific, 841 Bishop Street, Honolulu, Hawai`i. ALAMEDA:Thank you. Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA:Thank you, Mr. Chair. Morning, Mr. Yamamoto. The questions I’m going to ask you are based upon the concern raised by the Police Department’s response to this application, which it raises traffic kind of concerns and refers to the County’s stated policy of concurrency, as far as any development. And this is an SMA application; and so as part of the SMA application, we consider the effects of traffic and whether, you know, there’s going to be an adverse effect on public access to, in this case, the recreational areas in the vicinity of this project. And so I’d like to ask you if your study -. And in reading your study, I didn’t get the impression that it addressed that particular issue. So I’d just like to clarify on the record whether or not your study addresses the issue of what impact this project would have on public access to the recreational areas in the vicinity of this project. I don’t think any part of it addresses that issue, ‘cause I, in looking at it I couldn’t figure out that it did or not. YAMAMOTO:Okay. In a letter that I wrote to Mr. Fuke I stated that additional traffic generated by the proposed project should not have any significant impact on the access to existing coastal recreational areas. IWASHITA:Okay. And what is the, what parts of your study did you rely on to make that conclusion? YAMAMOTO:By the amount of traffic that is expected to be generated by the project, the traffic impact, traffic level of service analysis that I conducted as part of the study. The results are in Table 2 of my report that you have very adequate levels of service with the project at the project access site. EXHIBIT B 14