2024-02-01 Windward Exh B (Item #2 Manono Corner LLC)

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comments on the relative to land use issue but maybe you shouldn't have commercial uses or industrial uses kind of mixed up within the residential area. I can understand some of that point. However, over time there has been a grant like in years past zoning was highly segregated commercial, commercial, residents, residential and then over time what has happened is that there's been more a growing sense of a need for having a mixed-use. Having commercial and residential so that it kind of helps address some of the traffic issues because people now can work and live basically in the same area. So, that's the concept of like mixed-use. You've had like a number of Project District zoning which allows for this mix-use kind of concept and like unfortunately like in the Waiakea House Lot area. You don't have an automatically, you don't have an automatic zone that zones that whole area of mixed-use. So, you have to do it like on a case-by-case basis and such the situation here. If you just like we're all I think pretty much I know you kind of like work in that area, you know Mr. Chairman. So you kind of know the intersection very well. So, on the corner of Lanikaula and Manono Street it's also like a commercial complex right in that area. They have like a I think a visitor or it's like a tour company right on the corner. So, it's the same kind of like situation from a land use standpoint. If you go like Big Island Candies and you go down to Don's Grill area, you'll see some beginnings of commercial uses too. So, that's been the general pattern within the House Lot area, kind of like a mixed-use. Having said that so going to now to the traffic question. We had recognized there is a need to restrict access on Lanikaula because if you allow for left turn getting into the property on Lanikaula and you don't have like multiple lanes in that particular area. So, what happens is that the car then backs up into the intersection and that's not a good situation and that's the reason why the suggestion was to have a limited only right-turn in, right-turn out. On Manono Street on the other end. It's a little bit different because if you look at the map you already see that there is like a median lane. It starts off initially as like you have like what we commonly call as like as a suicide lane. In the Kaumana area you have 2 lanes and then you have 1 lane expressly dedicated for turning and this is the situation right over here and where it comes to the intersection however that so-called that turning lane eventually migrates into like a dedicated left turn lane at the intersection area. So, if you allow for a left turn the way that we look at it. If you allow for a left turn from Manono Street coming into the property, then you won't necessarily have that kind of back up because you have an opportunity for vehicles that's travelling on the Puna direction to kind of bypass that area and kind of continue on. We are sensitive to what the Rhoades said about the location of the access. It was kind of like deliberate to have that access point be situated as far as it could from the intersection for obvious reasons from a traffic congestion perspective. However, in light of what the Rhoades are saying that there is perhaps like an opportunity for a consolidated access as to kind of minimize that issue. We don't know necessarily whether that can or cannot be done. But it's something that the owner and this is the reason why I called Mr. Hamilton up here to see whether he'll be willing to kind of step back and engage the Rhoades and possibly the Osako's to see whether anything can be done. I think relative to the Osako's because their property is not adjacent. There's very little that can be done to address the concerns but, however, relative to the Rhoades I think that a discussion might be and might come in handy. 14 EXHIBIT B