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SPRINGER:This goes to the Planning Director and perhaps Mr. Emler. Im looking at Exhibit C, the second page, Item 3, which indicates Palani Road, the County road serving Pamahoa Place, is a primary arterial road. And it goes on to say that It is substandard based on width, alignment and roadside hazard clearances. Palani Road should be improved to an 80-ft. right-of way according to the Countys General Plan. Average daily volume was 15450 vehicles per day in 2002. This will be identified as a deficient link based on daily volume under criteria established in the 1998 Hawaii Long Range Transportation Plan. Im wondering if I might have a discussion of that comment with regard to this application and a statement by the Applicant that this application does nothing to increase the density that has already been approved. FUJIKAWA:Mr. Emler? EMLER:Well,becausetheissueofconcurrencyontrafficissueshavecome up in the recent past on other applications, we thought we should make a comment regarding what the daily traffic volumes were or are on Palani Road and make a statement about what, in comparison to what some traffic volume standards have been established in the, and, using some type of source as like a guideline to determine what, how it compares. And there is a table in the 1998 Long Range Transportation Plan that gives a very basic comparison of daily traffic volumes to level of service; and it indicates that this would be deficient link based on those traffic volumes. SPRINGER:Mr. Emler -. May I continue? FUJIKAWA:Go ahead. SPRINGER:Mr. Emler, the Applicants representative has indicated that this application does nothing to change the population density. And so there, I imagine, the implication is so there would be no increase in numbers of cars on the road. Is that accurate to the Applicant? HARLOW:That would be true if the four lots, the four existing lots, were developed with two homes, a primary dwelling and an ohana dwelling. Because the Applicant owns all four lots and has the necessary water commitments from the Department of Water Supply, that is completely within the realm of possibility now. SPRINGER:Thank you. So, Mr. Emler, I guess, and maybe Mr. Yuen can enter into this discussion as well, Im just trying to understand how to take the Department of Public Works observation that we have conditions of substandards and deficiency with what the Applicant is representing. EMLER:Well, given the Applicants response to that issue, I dont disagree or Public Works would not disagree with that assessment, that if they were to develop ohana dwellings on these lots, in other words, two dwellings per existing lot, it would not increase the potential traffic generation from the properties to subdivide them, otherwise 6