2012-11-15 Leeward Exh B - Waikoloa Mauka

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make use of it and I wish that our representatives and the zoning council and whoever else would try to hold these people’s toes to the fire a little bit, for a lack of a better word, because they practice obfuscation, they practice spin, they make the maps look so everything is beautiful for them. I understand that; people do this all the time, that’s just business, it ain’t no big thing. But it’s the irresponsible planning that’s going on. I don’t understand why the entrance has to be at Paniolo Avenue for this development. I don’t understand why it can’t be up the road, and that’s where their main entrance is. And then it’s a separate traffic problem from the traffic problem down the road where we are already putting in, trying to put in another commercial center. There is a commercial center there. I was here for the tsunami; Paniolo Avenue had cars going a quarter mile down the road at least, trying to get gasoline. This is one, is now one way in Paniolo Avenue that’s no longer available for exiting from the area. And I don’t know if the Police were called, but I know there was a lot of problems over there at that time. And, you know, I’m concerned about fire. I don’t like Queen Victoria; I don’t want to end up burned up dead. Thank you. GIFFIN: You’re welcome. Commissioners? All right. Ma’am? M. SCHULHERR: If I may -. GIFFIN: Sure. M. SCHULHERR: If the entrance is going to be right near where the Stables are and, back to Agenda Item 1, the only entrance to the development that’s going to be commercial would be off of Paniolo Avenue right-turn-only in and right-turn-only out, how the people who are going through the roundabout get to the commercial area, which – those two little lines represent where the Stables will be – if they are in the roundabout and they go up to Waikoloa Road, won’t they have to make a left turn into that two little lines, which indicate where the strip part of the commercial property would be? Or will they go through the roundabout, go to Paniolo Avenue and use the one road to get into the commercial area? There has to be the roundabout, I understand, until such time as they will have the left-turn lane for people traveling from Paniolo to Waikoloa Road – that would mean a five-lane intersection, because you’ll have to have some left-turn access onto Paniolo Road. You’ll also need to increase the lanes at Waikoloa Road to accommodate those who bypass the proposed traffic circle and go to Waikoloa Road and make a left somewhere near the strip mall that’s going to be near the entrance to, near the Stables. It just seems to be an awful lot of congestion to an already congested area, and as I mentioned, the sole exit for all of our Waikoloa Hills residents. Thank you for your time. GIFFIN: Thank you for your comments, and you are excused, the four of you. I’m going to ask the applicant to come back. And I know that you’ve heard most of the comments that were expressed, and you may want to spend some time addressing it. FUKE: Sure, I’ll be very brief. GIFFIN: All right. FUKE: First of all, I think that what Mr. Green talked about, like possibly having, you know, in the interests of connectivity, maybe another access on the south side of the property, and I think that can be kind of worked out internally between the Planning Department and the developer. And this is like a longtime project, so I think that the concept can be broached further. And I think it’s a good idea, particularly if the Saddle Road extension kind of like falls along that area. But my 10 EXHIBIT B