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R. GREEN: My name is Robert Green, and I guess I gave you my qualifications the first time I got
<br />up and I hedged my concerns. And another thing that, sitting back there, I’ve got this October 24,
<br />2012, issue; this is what I worked on, and I spent a lot of time on this, and I went through and I
<br />looked through the whole site. And then what I’m finding here is that it seems that you want public
<br />contributions, but you changed the map; in other words, when I looked at that map, one of the major
<br />concerns that I had, and many hours of looking at this thing, I find that the second exit, or actually
<br />the third exit, that you finally put in for the second phase. Okay, now, that was not given to any of
<br />us. So what basically I think is that, you know, we, that we have the same information that, if we
<br />are going to be requested to contribute our opinions, we should have the good information. Now,
<br />because I always had basically the same concern I mentioned earlier; you only get half the
<br />information when you look at this. When you take a look at the exits that they’re mentioning again,
<br />you find that they’re greatly affected by the first phase where the traffic is. As you look across here,
<br />and you’ll find on the upper left hand side, you see the two little lines out there, okay, that is a
<br />Stables road. Okay, then you go down, there is nothing there, and that is all the traffic involved
<br />with the new proposed shopping center. I don’t have any problem with the shopping center because
<br />I think for a private enterprise, he has a right to make his own judgments, good or bad. But I do
<br />think that we need to have all the information out. And when I look at this proposal here, I see we
<br />completely eliminated – so you have to go really get into it and realize that, hey, that two little lines
<br />out there for reference is going to be the Stables road – there is no lines or reference or nothing as
<br />far as the new proposals. When you get off into the second exit onto the extension of Paniolo by the
<br />post office, you have another, the second entrance there, and what they do is they follow it through
<br />and they meet at a crossing, which is a point of that you have – I don’t use that thing – so you have
<br />a single point of, and if anything happens at the intersection, the whole thing is kaput – no traffic
<br />out until Phase 2 is completed, see? And then when you look at that, Phase 2 is completed only
<br />with, only with the second, or the third, entrance that we were, I was not privy to when I did all my
<br />research, okay?
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<br />Again, and another thing that I looked at that, I see, where are the cul-de-sacs? What I’m looking at
<br />is side streets. Because, you know, if you look at Paniolo, there are no houses on Paniolo; all the
<br />houses are off streets. Okay, then you turn left on Hulu, and you see that no houses on Hulu until
<br />you get over to the Sunset Ridge, and that’s been a contention I guess we all know about. But
<br />anyway, hopefully we -. But if you look at this situation, you find nothing but side streets. Every
<br />street there’s houses, excuse me, cars backed out or driven out of; you do not have a iwikuamo‘o, or
<br />a spine, where you don’t have all these houses directly to the road. If you look at that first exit, and
<br />in the morning when you are all set to go back -. And look at all those houses that you see along
<br />Paniolo. Where are their entrances? You know, you have, you see, we are looking at all those
<br />houses next to Waikoloa Road – I’m sorry, Waikoloa Road – see Waikoloa Road, you see a rail of
<br />houses next to Waikoloa Road, then you see another row of houses next to an inner road, which
<br />leads me to believe they are expecting to run all the traffic on Waikoloa Road. I don’t know, you
<br />know, I’m just looking at the plans that I have, and it seems that there is some -. I’m very
<br />concerned about that. You know, I think, not that I’m against it, I think, I think that the project
<br />should be given, time should be given because of economic situations, but I think the planning
<br />involved in this is really lacking, when you sit down and look at it. And also, I’m very concerned
<br />with is that I know and you know that the State is putting in an extension of Saddle Road. And we
<br />are all hoping that it bends over, on Alternate 3, I think it is, it touches the Waikoloa Road; that puts
<br />it pretty close to Pu‘u Hina‘i. And I think it’d be a really interesting fact if they, on that lower right
<br />hand side, they possibly had some area down there that they could extend to get another entrance, or
<br />exit, to the new highway that’s going to cross. But, you know, I’m looking at those, so all these
<br />roads, as I said, all on no spine, no in-and-out, every road subject to a driveway, and we’ve got a
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