2012-08-02 Windward Transcript Regency

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LEITHEAD TODD: Okay. FUKE: So that’s how they’ll work it out. So this is, you know, you can't really see it in detail although it’s kind of a little bit more clearer in your packet. But, see, some of the things that we talked about was like, I guess the direct answer to Commissioner Ono’s question is that presently the road right now is not really within the center of the road right-of-way. It's kind of like more skewed on the mauka side or on Ms. Leithead Todd’s former residence area, okay, on that side. It's on the, this side here. So the idea is to make considerable expansion on, like essentially like a new lane on the makai side, and a portion of which may incorporate the applicant’s property. So where you have currently, if it’ s like you're looking at “U”, that the current, you know, the curve, then what happens when you expand it, then the “U” becomes a little bit wider. So you increase visibility that way. But over and beyond that, what we did was we worked systematically with a number of the property owners on the mauka side. And Mr. Purcell who’s here in the audience will probably, hopefully, favorably testify on that matter. He lives directly across of the proposed driveway. And so on, you know where Commissioner, I mean Director Leithead Todd referred to the Bright’s property, it’s like . where it's now owned by Mr. And Mrs. Pirie So we had met with them, Mr. Purcell, Mrs. Tatsutani who lives over here, Ray Hasegawa’s mom lives over here, and right at this corner this is, I think that street is called Ekena Place, and there's this gentleman over here, Mr. Maruyama. And so we had met with all of them to figure out like how best to improve their sight distance. And what it amounted to is like a shaving of the banks. A good portion of this mauka area, the banks will be shaved. And all of the improvements would be done within the existing road rights-of-way, road rights-of-way, with the possible exception of Mr. Tatsutani’s property and, cause some of the embankment occurs on his property. But he basically already said just go ahead and do it because for him safety was much more important, not necessarily only for him but for, you know -. This is his property here, but there are other residents that come off of this Ekena Place. And so what it does is it increases the visibility basically all around over here. So on the makai section what we did was -. This is the Ono’s property over here. And, as you know, people who travel up in there, they know that Onos have, basically they have two driveways, you know, maybe like one way in and one way out. So we had communicated with them and ask them, said like, look, if you want then Regency would provide a dedicated driveway access from over here going over to your existing driveway and, you know, we’ll provide an easement and we’ll provide the improvements so you have the option. And the owners graciously accepted that. As far as on the property on the mauka side, which is owned by the Mattos family, we did not have any direct contact with them, but through Mr. Pakele who had made some contacts. We had also written the same, you know, provided the same invitation to Mattos family over here. But we understand that they were more concerned about extending an existing rock wall to provide some physical separation between the property and their property, to provide like a rock wall, extending the rock wall, you know, heading this direction and also heading mauka/makai; and which is something that the applicant has also agreed to, to which we had also communicated with Mr. Mattos. So a lot of these are kind of like restating. Again in relation to the Luana Gardens Community Association, we also talked to them about creating some buffer, you know, landscaped buffer, between 8 EXHIBIT B