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down a little bit. Now I believe my subdivision is talking about asking for a second four-way stop a little bit farther up the hill. We talked about impact on the road of construction. I can tell you that a couple weeks ago somebody went up the hill and either dropped a lot of big rocks or something but not too far from the intersection of Hienaloli and Nani Kailua. Now there's a series of chips out of the road that runs for about 100 feet, and it's either rocks that fell off a truck or a piece of large earth moving equipment, you know, that slipped its whatevers. So that's the kind of stuff that, you know, you do start living with when you have a street that's -, it's a basic blacktop road, it's 30 years old. One of the previous speakers spoke about earthquakes. We've had three in the last month. If you look at the top of Nani Kailua, you will notice that the weeds are starting to grow out of all the cracks which, you know, is kind of scenic in some ways, but it does tell you that the road is -, it's been a long time since it's been repaved and it's probably needing some attention, particularly at the upper, steeper end of it. So those are some of the things about those two roads that I'm concerned about. I also am concerned as my neighbor is about the fact that all these subdivisions were approved with no thought to the fact that eventually they could connect together in the up-hill mauka- makai kind of way, even if that wasn't the main feeder, but if it was some sort of an emergency arrangement when you needed to get people in and out of those developments or up and down the hill. I'm very dismayed to hear that these recent developments have made those connector streets, possible connector streets into sub-cul-de-sacs. I would urge -, one of my questions for the group is how you follow this through the system. We have a demonstration of what the subdivision might look like with this circular arrangement, and yet you say that this can change as it goes through the process. And as a citizen, I would kind of like -, I'll have to ask the Planning Commission or someone at a later date how you follow that, because it's really a shame that all of these have gone through with no thought to the fact that you could do a mauka-makai inter-connection, even if you're not connecting down to the highway below but you're feeding people down through their own neighborhoods and then you're feeding them onto Welo, which is how Welo works on the other side on Nani Kailua,. It feeds through Hoene, which Hoene is a C street that actually acts as a second road for Kailua View Estates in terms of emergencies and what not. One point about water, I'd like to concur with the developer's representative about water. I live at the top of the subdivision, and there are times when I can't water my garden because I don't have enough water pressure, so I can tell you that water pressure is indeed a problem up there. A couple of other comments, we keep talking about Hienaloli. One question I have is Director Yuen mentioned that Hienaloli will never go north, is essentially you're saying, it's a very expensive proposition to bridge that, the water drainage. And yet on the County plan it shows that Hienaloli eventually is supposed to go over and connect around Kealakehe. And yet there's been no discussion of that. We keep talking about it as if it's a dead road and it'll 25