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YUEN:Well, I think thats what Mr. Emler was referring to, that we have a condition that talks about evaluating thesight distance and the location of the final evaluation of the entry. SPRINGER:Thank you. And, also, Mr. Gimpels comment regarding the mass transit and the contribution of the fair share toward that expansion, is that contemplated yet by the Planning Department? YUEN:You know, that really is a good idea. Id really -. My thought is that rather than, I would like to, Id like to leave this as is for the Commission, because I would like to talk with the Council staff about changing the standard wording of the road condition, not adding any money to it but saying that the fee can be used for roads in transit. Its, later on in the condition it says that the fair share can be used for roads and traffic. And I may be, you know, weve collected a certain amount of money. We have, maybe,Ithinkwehaveaboutamillioninfairshareontheroads,notthatmuchreallyhas been collected over time. It seems to me that trying to do transportation improvements, you want to have the flex -, we have to have the flexibility to use funds for roads or for mass transit, and that we ought to start tacking this on to our, changing the language on our rezoning ordinances. Id rather talk to, simply because this is being an overall change, I would like to talk with the Council staff, people that work on planning, and perhaps with the Council people about doing this rather than making this change for this application. We could make the change. If they want to make the change, they can make it up at the Council level. But that is an awfully good suggestion, rather than always saying that the money has to go into roads. SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Yuen. Commissioners, any questions or comments? Thank you, Mr. Gimpel. Ms. Murphy, if you could please give us your name and your address for the record. MURPHY:My name is Mary Murphy and I live at 75-232 Hualalai Road in Kailua-Kona. SPRINGER:And your testimony, please. MURPHY:I represent a group of five property owners just mauka of this project, in fact, on the other side of the Kuakini Wall; and we moved to that development as it was newly completed in September of 2001. And we have heard lots of brakes squealing, lots of noises, lots of traffic; and I am concerned about the new traffic that this project will bring to Hualalai Road. Makai of us is Aloha Kona, that a very dangerous blind curve and to, I mean, mauka, and makai of us runs around the corner towards the Regency. Weve had crashes on this road, weve had one fellow that landed in a neighbors front yard. And were just five people, we come and go on a daily basis. This is going to add over a hundred cars coming and going out of this development on a daily basis, and Im concerned about the traffic. We have heard a lot today about traffic. Its a big topic here 14