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GRAHAM:Alex, we can see a lot of these issues on the paper and all that you're bringing up and all, but the one thing we cannot know is what it's like to live there. So can you give me some sense, if you've been there for 11 years, if you had your property, what the traffic situation is like day-to-day? THROPP:Well, the design of Kona Heights, where it dead ends there at the top at Aloha Kona Drive, the Aloha Kona Drive goes all the way down almost to the highway and then there's Welo Street and you cut over a half a block, and that feeds into the bottom of Nani Kailua Drive. So when I go out, I don't have to go on Hienaloli to the top. I could, but I don't have to, and I can go down Aloha Kona, then cut over on that side street at the bottom and then go out at the traffic light. But it still remains that Nani Kailua is the only way to get out at the bottom. And right now, it seems to be flowing pretty well, but this development would piggyback on to that as a way to get out, so that's my concern that they don't have their own road. And it's been discussed that the State won't allow a north in and out access, which would make -, it's very commonsense to me, which would be on the north side of the lower part of the development that's already under construction. And that would make the most sense. And run it right up on the north side of the hole so they could just go down the hill on their own, have their own in and out road, as we have Kona Heights and as Nani Kailua residents have Nani Kailua. Kailua View Estates, I'm sorry, they have their Nani Kailua. So there would be three, if, you know, east-west, up and down the hill exits and accesses. But now these people are -, want to use ours and they want to make 43 houses and throw it on to ours at the top. Then they have a project in the middle that was approved and then at the bottom, then there's two pieces missing from in between. So when that comes up for application, then they're going to ask to come through. It's the same way. It's just, instead of developing the whole strip up and down the mountain, they're doing it in four or five different pieces, and they claim it's different people but I don't know if that's true, because I think th developer might be the same. But my attitude is that they -, each neighborhood should have their own way in and out on this many homes, and that's what I think. I think to add it on to our neighborhood and my neighbors' road is not right. GRAHAM:Yeah, I -. THROPP:It doesn't flow right. GRAHAM:I understand that. I think the consideration maybe that the State has or I would have as somebody who doesn't live there, is where there's, you know, a hundred or several hundred people coming down wanting to get on and off the highway. THROPP:Right. 16