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down to 200 from 400 is, just doesnÓt sit right with me. Because he keeps talking about
<br />the speculative nature of the market, and itÓs printed in black-and-white in our
<br />recommendation, and he said it verbally this morning, Ðdue to the speculative nature of
<br />the market for an airport-oriented business hotel.Ñ Now that may be perfectly true. But I
<br />donÓt think itÓs any of our, itÓs not our jurisdiction to determine what the economic
<br />feasibility for the developer might be. I think thatÓs something that the developer decides
<br />within the scope of the analysis that they make. And if he, if the developer wants to go
<br />for 400 and the laws allow it, I donÓt see how we, as Commissioners, can sit here and act
<br />like an analyst, business analyst, which we are not, and say itÓs better to have 200 versus
<br />400. And, so, therefore, when the time is appropriate, Mr. Chair, I would like to make an
<br />amendment to this recommendation that is before us from our Plan
<br />GALDONES:So noted, Commissioner Kubota. Commissioner Springer?
<br />SPRINGER:Thank you. Mr. Fuke, can you direct me to any place in
<br />Infrastructure and Public Facilities chapters where there is a discussion of stop delay per
<br />vehicle along Kaahumanu Highway while in transit?
<br />FUKE:Unfortunately, IÓm not a traffic engineer. So if I had known like
<br />all of those questions were coming up, I would have had the consultant over.
<br />SPRINGER:IÓm sorry.
<br />FUKE:As I had explained at the last meeting, I think what one really
<br />needs to take into consideration is that, as the Director had indicated, this becomes like a
<br />traffic generator, thereÓs no question about it. But if you look at the situation in, along
<br />the Queen Kaahumanu Highway, lot of the bottleneck is a result of like from the Hinalani
<br />Street moving south, and particularly up to Palani Road. What this project intends to do
<br />is to have that kind of, you know, have much of the traffic in the northern section, you
<br />know, of Kona, the North Kona and the South Kohala area, pretty much like migrate to
<br />this area to obviate or minimize the number of traffic movements that one may need to
<br />take towards town, and then further compounding it. So if youÓre looking at the load on
<br />the Queen Kaahumanu Highway, particularly from Hinalani Street moving south, then,
<br />conceivably, any and all other activities south of Hinalani Street is the one thatÓll further
<br />exacerbate the problem. So what this project was intending to do was trying to, as we
<br />kind of like pointed out in the beginning of the environmental assessment, is trying to
<br />recognize that there is a different level of growth activity, the growth pattern, in the North
<br />Kona district. You know, youÓve got the upcoming West Hawaii University of Hawaii
<br />campus, you have the NELHA, you got the airport, you got the, lot of residential
<br />developments on Kaiminani, you know, all along that section, which has essentially
<br />created, has kind of like created like a different so-called like a land use pattern.
<br />And IÓll give you a classic point. ItÓs an information that I had shared with the Council
<br />Planning Committee. IÓm reminded of a situation about 25 years ago when the County
<br />administration, and I was part of that, you know, we had been ve
<br />keeping all of the commercial activities within the downtown core and the KaikoÓo area
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