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And the only other situation I can think of in that regard was wedid have an individual in Puna, either Hawaiian Beaches or Paradise Park, I forget which it was before, who was going to do, I believe, was like an auto repair shop in his lot and he was being asked to improve the road from the main road to where his lot was. And, so, I remembered in my mind at the time trying to think was that a disproportionate asking, given the small size of his particular project auto repair. So, anyway, I wanted to put the same sort of thought process in mind on this one, but we dont have anything from you folks about the scale of the project. SONG:Mr. Graham, you do have some things; and as I understand proportionate share has, doesnt having a bearing on the dollar value of the project. It has a bearing on the impacts of the project. So, for example, this project, and Ms. Siracusa raised an interesting point that you dont have a current traffic study, whether the traffic studywasdonein1992ortoday,theimpactsofthisprojectarestillthesame.Thereare approximately 50 -. SIRACUSA:Cumulative. SONG:Okay, well, but 50 vehicle trips generated by this project in the morning and 70 in the afternoon, thats going to be the impact on the road. Now, theres a cumulative impact on all the other matters, but thats not changing; and that is substantially less than if this property were developed into a one-acre Ag subdivision, which it can be done without any permits from this Commission. So, the impacts of this project are, youre looking at this number of vehicle trips. And if you have that number of vehicle trips, is it, is there a rational relationship or a reasonable nexus between a $6 million road improvement and those trips a day, considering the fact that there are 4,000 other lots in the Ainaloa Subdivision. And even if this were developed out, it would only have 175 lots. Even at developed out at 175 lots, a $6 million road improvement wouldnt be a fair proportionate share out of all the total number of lots. GRAHAM:Thank you. So I understand better where youre coming from, its not that its disproportionate to the scale of the project but you feel its disproportionate of the particular impacts of this project. SONG:Thats how I understand impacts and impact fees. GRAHAM:Okay. And then I had a question for the Planning Director. Mr. Yuen, could you give us just a background on these roads with regard to the emergency access road? Like the gentleman who testified before said something about, th well, it has to be done, the County has to take over this Ainaloa Road by December 6 else something is moot. And I kind of wanted to know where thats going, what you see isthefutureof,youknow,howthatsgoingtoturnoutwiththeCountytakingcontrolof this Ainaloa Boulevard and, furthermore, as far as the rest of the access through the 27