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places -. I dont know if theres anybody who would like to comment onthat. Ill accept a comment on that question from anyone who wants. SPRINGER:Mr. Gimpel? GIMPEL:My question to you, Ms. Siracusa, would be, this is too high for a tsunami-caused evacuation, so -. SIRACUSA:Fires, for example, fire. GIMPEL:Thered have to be one heck of a fire. But the driveway could be wide enough to permit both right and left turns out. I think that should be a principle problem. SIRACUSA:Okay. SPRINGER:Thankyou,Commissioners.Anyotherquestionsorcommentsof the testifier? SIRACUSA:Id like to know how the developer would feel about that option? SPRINGER:Theyll be returning to the table after we excuse the members of the public. Thank you for contributing to the record today. If the Applicants representatives could come forward at this time. Welcome back to the table. Youve heard the testimony and the comments made by the Commissioners and the staff, and I believe Commissioner Siracusa has a specific question for you. SIRACUSA:Yes, it was suggested by Mr. Gimpel that it would be a lot safer traffic-wise to have the entrance and exit from the parcel as being a single one right in the center instead of on either end, so that there would be more line of sight for safety, more safety in the traffic pattern. And then he further suggested, when I was concerned that things would get jammed up if there was a fire, that it could be wider than, you know, more than just a single lane, possibly two lanes out, something like that. So Id like you to comment on that if, what you think about that suggestion, and if it seems to you that it would be feasible, or if it would interfere with your other plans in some way. FUKE:Id like to take an initial stab at it and maybe Mr. Saunders later on. I think that we had originally conceded to the fact that, you know, we would have like only one primary access and, if anything, that the second access would be reserved only for emergency purpose; and this would be exactly like what the Department of Public Works had recommended. You will note earlier that when Mr. Saunders testified, you know, he was assuming that the primary access would be on the mauka portion and Mr. Ki comes up and said like, Well, theyre thinking a little bit more on the makai side, and then Mr. Gimpel is saying, Maybe it should be right in the middle. And, so, I think that the way that the 16