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their submission. Lets talk about Mr. Emler. You know, the frustrating thing about it, Mr.
<br />Emler was talking about this traffic guideline that they use but we never saw it. Its hard for me
<br />to believe that they have one traffic guideline for every situation. I mean lets look at it. If you
<br />have a city or a small, a small town or a (inaudible) like Waimea youre going to have entirely
<br />different traffic numbers based on the school because some people take the bus. If its a urban
<br />community people walk. The other thing it doesnt show, we dont know was, what was the size
<br />of the streets? You know youre going to have a lot more impact on a small street or a small
<br />country road, which is what were talking about, than you have on a wide street. And this is the
<br />problem. The problem is we dont know you know that theres no traffic data except what we
<br />submitted. And, you know I dont want to make this too long but I want to, I want to tell you, if
<br />you will follow me on, in your map on the, in exhibit 1 in your exhibits. The streets and in, you
<br />can just, you can just look at that our map, exhibit 1. Kapiolani Road is 18 to 22 feet of
<br />pavement and about 38 feet of right of way. And if you look at our exhibit, our last exhibit 16
<br />youll see what happens when you have a narrow right of way. Because when cars park theres
<br />noplaceforthemparktheyparkontheshoulder.Sowheredopedestrianswalk,theywalkin
<br />the road and Ill tell you thats where all the pedestrians in this area walk, they walk on the road.
<br />Because the sidewalk, theres no sidewalks, theres heavy grass it gets wet, everybody walks on
<br />the road. And, the thing that bothers me about this is that the hearings officer totally ignored the
<br />fact that traffic is a huge issue. And let me say this, I dont know where you live but if you lived
<br />in a place where like the residents of Puuki Street on that pasture side. They live, thats their
<br />homes. Theres a nice green pasture next to them and if you dont think that a (inaudible), that a
<br />person elementary school with all the traffic that entails doesnt, isnt a substantial adverse
<br />impact to the surrounding properties I just cant believe it. It is clearly, clearly adverse impact.
<br />A substantial adverse impact. The other thing that this hearings officer totally ignored. And this
<br />you know perhaps is more difficult if you dont live there perhaps you cant visualize it. But that
<br />block, our community is an area of 4 blocks plus the extension of Hokuula Road. If you look on
<br />your exhibit 1 you can see where the 4 roads are and the extension of Hokuula Road. You know
<br />some of those, Spencer Road is 12 feet wide in some places. Hokuula Road is 13 in some places,
<br />20 to 18 through other places. No side walks. And let me tell you, this is our community and
<br />this community is a walking community. They walk, my wife and my daughter and my
<br />grandchild walk that community, that road, that 4-lane, 4 street block everyday practically. And
<br />unfortunately with my daughter and my, and granddaughter, and this was, she testified to this.
<br />They do it in the early morning, you know and during, between 7 and 8. Tutus house, which is
<br />a non-profit in Waimea published a map, they got a grant to publish a walking map. One of the
<br />areas of walking in Waimea as, are those 4 streets. Lindsey, Hokuula, Spencer and Kapiolani.
<br />So what were saying is, is that this traffic is going to have an adverse impact on the nature of
<br />our community. Let me tell you something. You know one of the, you dont know how this
<br />community has struggled with this because this community is not against-. This community is
<br />not against Parker School having a school there. What this community is really bothered about
<br />is you got a, you have a 2.6 acre little parcel here thats carved out and what about the other 10
<br />acres. You know we would think, theres another use permit application on this side that was
<br />withdrawn. The whole thing gets more confusing because this isnt owned by Parker School, no
<br />this is owned by the Parker land trust. Parker School is a beneficiary of the Parker land trust.
<br />We think that from a planning standpoint to have, carve out this little area for a use permit then
<br />what happens the next use permit comes up and the community, we gotta go fight that one? And
<br />then the next one comes up and we gotta go fight that one. You know thats not good planning.
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