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SPRINGER:Mr. Yuen? YUEN:Just, please lets say, As agreed by the Applicant, a non-gated access -. FUKE:Thank you. SPRINGER:Commissioners, any questions of the Applicants representative or the staff? Seeing none, if you gentlemen could stand back, Id like to invite the testifiers who have signed up and any others who wishto sign up at this time to give public testimony. We have Joel Gimpel and Mary Murphy signed up. DARROW:Madam Chair? Ki from the Department of Public Works also wanted to address the Commission. SPRINGER:Sure, if folks from the public could please bear with us, we would justwelcomeMr.Emlerwithhiscomments. EMLER:ImsorryIdidntjumpalittlefaster.Mr.Saundersbroughtupor did mention something, he said that the County had preferred the mauka access. And I dont know if Planning had preferred that access, but I can tell you that Public Works did not indicate any preference in our comments. We did ask for an engineering study of the proposed access. And we actually had been working on this based on some already approved project in the area thats across the road, and we were concerned about conflicts with that; and thats why we put the recommendation in there for the engineering study. Were not closing the door on either one. We were working, actually preferring the makai one at the time we made the comments. SPRINGER:Thanks for that clarification, Mr. Emler. Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:As long as hes up there, could I -? Okay, Im looking at the th Police Department letter dated August 18 and Item No. 2 states, Presently, there are only two available connector roadways to the project on Hualalai Road, Queen Kaahumanu Highway and Kuakini Highway. Both of these roadways are at capacity and scheduled for improvements sometime in the future. I wonder if you could clarify sometime. EMLER:Okay, Kuakini Highway has a project on the table, and that is a widening project from Palani Road to Hualalai Road, correct; and the construction on that is tentatively scheduled to begin in November of this year. The Queen Kaahumanu Highway is under State jurisdiction and there is a proposed project for widening from, well, the first phase from Keahole, I mean, Kealakehe Parkway to Henry Street. As far as the scheduling on that, that keeps changing; and Im not sure when thats going to happen. It was supposed to begin, I believe, this year but its a year behind schedule or twoyearspossiblybehindscheduleforvariousreasons.Doesthatansweryourquestion? 11