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<br />GIFFIN: Right, right. And this is across the street.
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<br />ARAI: This is across the street, right.
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<br />GIFFIN: Okay. Ma’am?
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<br />M. SCHULHERR: My understanding then, from his answer, is that we will give Hawai‘i County a
<br />park, which will be accessible, according to the master development of the first agenda item,
<br />through a commercial area parking lot, because there is no place in this beautiful development for a
<br />park. I think that’s a little bit shortsighted. And I would request that there be some accommodation
<br />for some of the children who will be living there to have an additional park, because it’s going to be
<br />awfully difficult with the traffic situation for any of these people to enjoy the community park, that
<br />they will have to get through a commercial parking lot because there is no access to this proposed
<br />park that is dangled to the County of Hawai‘i in order to have this approved and go through. Again,
<br />I raise the concerns: We do need a traffic circle, a traffic light or some easement of that
<br />development or adjacent to the intersection of Paniolo, excuse me, Waikoloa Road, Pua Melia,
<br />which is the other side of Paniolo Avenue. I don’t want these people to have the same situation we
<br />have; if there is going to be a wild fire, and there are many, how are they going to get out, if they’re
<br />going to have to go through the same congested intersection, Waikoloa Road, Paniolo Avenue, Pua
<br />Melia Street?
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<br />GIFFIN: Thank you. Commissioners, any questions? Hearing none, sir? Would you please state
<br />your name again.
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<br />R. SCHULHERR: Absolutely. Richard Schulherr. I’m a resident of Waikoloa Village. I have
<br />several concerns about this project, and one of my concerns does come back to this traffic circle
<br />because there seems to be a feeling that we are going to separate pedestrians from the traffic circle,
<br />but somehow magically no one is going to have to stop their truck. They are going to drive along
<br />the road, though they are not going to have to stop for pedestrians; I guess we are going to put in an
<br />over-path or an under-path or, I don’t really know what. But there is really no provisions have been
<br />made for pedestrians to get to cross the road. And you are putting a park across the road from this
<br />division, and the park is located in, as the gentleman on the other, a traffic nightmare. And I’m very
<br />confused as to why the entrance to this development -. I’m not against the development. Let me
<br />make that clear. And I’m not against development in general; I’m against ill-considered
<br />development. And my problem with this program is that it had, it’s looking for an extension now, it
<br />already had five years, and I understand that there are economic decisions to make people not to
<br />start the projects; however, that doesn’t stop them from planning them well, and if you have a delay
<br />in your project. I don’t see why you can’t plan it better so it has more efficient and safe egress for
<br />people from problems, fires, whatever may come along. I don’t understand why they don’t have
<br />better access to this so-called park which, let me be quite frank, is a deal so they get this. The park
<br />is supposed to be an enjoyable thing; it’s not supposed to be a kid killer. You have Waikoloa Road,
<br />which at present is 35 miles-an-hour speed limit. I’m from New York City, and in New York City
<br />the speed limit in general, the limit is 35 miles-an-hour, and there is a very specific reason for that;
<br />if you get hit by a vehicle going 30 miles an hour, your chances of surviving are 80 percent; if you
<br />get hit by a vehicle going 40 miles an hour, your chances of surviving are more like 20 percent.
<br />And I’d say that again, if anybody doesn’t, I’ll be glad to repeat it, it’s very simple; it’s going to be
<br />a kid killer. You are going to have kids on bikes, they are going to be walking along. People barrel
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