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improved to four lanes, which would allow access and ingress into this property and other properties that go east-west along this corridor, one of which is proposed today. It's also been mentioned that, you know, it's hard to change things that -, some of these street patterns once the streets are in. Well, in fact, in just recent months, a couple of the streets that originally were on the County plan to cut through from north to south, Melelina Street and Kawena Street, have been dead ended. We were here at the Planning Commission less than a year ago talking about the rezoning of property at the north end of Melelina for 17 residential lots and, in fact, that has been approved for 20 residential lots of R-20, not R-10, which I think talks to the density issue. Director Yuen, or Planning Director Yuen said, you know, if you want density, you got to have people in there, and R-10 is better than R-20 to get density. Well, that wasn't the argument when the previous property came in for R-20 and the pro further down the hill directly adjacent to the highway came in for R-20. Those were points at which you could have asked them for R-10 and you didn't, so instead it is developer driver and not planning driven. But my points on the streets is we were told when we came in and talked about Melelina, and some people wanted that a cul-de-sac and some people wanted it a through street, we were told that the County required Melelina to eventually be a through street and it would not be a cul- de-sac. It has since been approved as a cul-de-sac, and so 20 homes are planned on a cul-de- sac at the top of Melelina that eliminates that as a possibility of road access into this new development. Similarly, down the hill on Kawena Street, a similar situation happened where when that was recently rezoned to R-20, Kawena Street on the County map for years has shown going through further to the north, and now that has been approved as a cul-de-sac, I'm told at the Planning Department, and that won't go through any further. So again, that's one that could have gone have gone through and alleviated some of this problem. Kakalina Street, the same way. That currently still shows going through to the north, although there are two properties directly to the north that are zoned A-5, and if those were to come in for residential development, I suppose there could be the same kind of discussion about truncating Kakalina and turning that into another cul-de-sac. So you do have opportunities to affect transportation plans to these new developments in the area if you want to. You can do that, and you should do that. Finally, with regard to an environmental concern, it strikes me that all of these new properties are being rezoned and permitted without any kind of sewer systems. The proposal is to put some kind of drainage septic tanks or cesspools or something to that area. Certainly, cesspools are less acceptable than septic tanks. But here you are on the edge of a major hundred-year flood plane drainage path, putting in either cesspools or septic tanks that eventually will allow effluent to get into that drainage ditch, and that drainage ditch is eventually going to run down into the ocean and that's a problem. 23