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What we want is the community wants is a master plan of this whole area. I recognize that you know this, the cards are stacked against us. Weve got the Planning Department against us, hearings officer didnt agree with us but to me good judgement is. The first place I think clearly, clearly the applicant did not meet their burden of showing that theres no substantial adverse impact. But from a, from a judgment standpoint, from your discretionary standpoint what we would like to see you do is deny this application, get this whole area master planned. Lets try and solve some of these traffic problems. You know, youve got, this is Puuki, the residence is right along here, this is the road. Its 40 feet, 45 feet. Theres no reason that you couldnt move the road up if this whole area was master planned. That would make a huge difference of these residences. You know maybe the school could be done in such a way you block some of the noise from the traffic. Theres some real difficult traffic issues. I, you know, theres a possibility perhaps of putting it way down here where the trailways is linking the two schools. But the problem with that is, is the entrance to that is on Lindsey Road and theres a massive traffic (inaudible) problem there too. But you know I said this in the beginning of the thing is thatIdecrythis,thewaythishasbeenhandled.IthinkitsthePlanningDepartmentsfault.I think its the schools fault. I think its our fault for not trying to resolve this thing earlier. But I think for the benefit of this community, and you know I, I dont think this thing is going to go away. And I think for the benefit of the community we need to step back figure out you know this supposedly is the first phase of the school so plan out the school lets figure out the traffic problems. You know we wont get everything we want. Actually we need a sidewalk you know. Because you dont have room. Look at that, look at that exhibit 16. When you, and you know that was taken on a weekend so it doesnt happen all the time but I will tell you that cars park there more and more. And I havent raised the other issue we have, is we have a 40-unit PUD right on the corner of Lindsey Road and Kapiolani Road. The bulldozing is going on right now as I speak, theyre clearing. And that PUD has access on both Lindsey Road and Kapiolani Road. You know the problem is nobody knows. You know theres no evidence to show what, how do we solve this traffic problem? You know and we dont want, you know its bad enough in Waimea, its getting bad enough. Now we dont want another Kona. So, thats all I can say. I know it will be a very difficult decision for you to do this. But Ill tell you I think its the right decision. Thank you. GALDONES:Commissioners any question of Mr. Woodell? Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Mr. Woodell for the, for your use as well as the Commissioners Im trying to refer to Ms. Broders proposed Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law etc. number 51 which relates to traffic. Sure and so the particular sense I want to read to you is that, the Planning Department and the Department of Public Works found that the proposed use would not significantly increase traffic in the area. Okay, I noticed Ms. Broder didnt say that she found that to be the case but she just kind of repeated what she got from the Planning Department at some point and from the Department of Public Works. And what I want to do is just give you my take at this point on that whole thing. And if you feel like thats reasonable just let me know, or if you feel its not reasonable for some reason let me know too. Given the information you all put forth on the traffic survey of like roughly 1 car every minute and given to these short periods of time youre going to have roughly 90 students coming and going some of who may be car pooled and etc. It doesnt seem to me reasonable to say that it would not significantly increase traffic in the area. It seems like it will significantly increase traffic in the area. However for us EXHIBIT A 18