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They requested a 20-foot minimum and, also, a 24-foot preferred width for this driveway. The 24 feet, I got my tape measure out yesterday, will take you just about from the Sea Village property line with a little bit of setback, which is required, over basically to the edge of the Sun Terra Building. ThatÓs a pretty squeezed-in dri IÓll show you some photos of that later. Other issues here are congested parking due to the number of units. WeÓre basically, it states in the application itself that this is the maximum number of units that can be put on this piece of land, and they also state that theyÓre putting in the minimum number of parking lots or parking spots. So, you know, if somebody has a party, thereÓs some special event or something, to me that sounds like you have people parking on the road. That doesnÓt sound like good planning. We also have an issue about access for garbage trucks. The garbage trucks need to be able to get into this building. How are they going to do that with the Sun Terra Office sitting right on the side of the road. TheyÓre going to be slowing way down, making very short turns. If somebody doesnÓt cut it right, they may be backing up into Alii Drive, theyÓll try it again. This is something that needs to be considered and needs to be addressed. We also have rapid development down here, as I said; and it is making driving down here kind of a dangerous activity. I hope to have a traffic accident history today from the Police Department. It wonÓt be ready till next week but I will forward that to you when I get it. What I do know is I witnessed two accidents myself last year. One of them I was sitting on my lanai when I heard this loud bang. I didnÓt run down to gawk or anything, but I heard all the police sirens and the fire engines racing down Alii Drive to get to it. The next morning I went out to take a little stroll and the house four doors down from us had the whole front of the house bashed in, took off the entire entryway to the house. Hopefully, nobody was in there. I donÓt know what happened to the driver in this accident, but it was not a pretty sight and caused a lot of property damage. The second accident was a little more disturbing. Strolling home one evening from town, walking down the road, again, hear boom, bang, second time in th whatÓs going on here? I walked up, there was a mother standing on the side of the road with her two-year old daughter bleeding profusely from the head and sheÓs yelling, ÐSave my daughter, save my daughter. Somebody call 911.Ñ And IÓm wal going, my gosh, this is terrible, this is one of the worst things IÓve ever seen in my life. I sat down with this woman, we tried to do some first-aid. Somebody got a cell phone out, we called the police, and they got down there, and she was okay. But it was a scary situation, really scared; and I donÓt want to see that happen again, especially in front of my building. If we could flip to the next page, there are some photos on there that show the situation that weÓre dealing with. Photo No. 1 is the view coming out of the driveway. This is the 8