2012-11-15 Leeward Exh E - DPW Laaloa

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GIFFIN: So maybe it is you, sir? It’s not what I have as No. 1, I promise. DARROW: No, that could be it. GIFFIN: Well, I’m glad that you came up. Will the three of you please raise your hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Hawai‘i County Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: I do. GIFFIN: Okay. Staff, do I have someone who will time? Okay, thank you. Ma’am, beginning with you, please state your name. J. LEDERER: Yes. My name is Julie Lederer. GIFFIN: And go ahead. J. LEDERER: I am a homeowner -. LEITHEAD TODD: Microphone. J. LEDERER: Sorry. I am a homeowner in Ali‘i Heights, and our pool backs up to the road right there, and we are located on kind of a little bit of a hill right above where the proposed road of the past 30 years that has not come through. We are very aware of this road because we hear all of the traffic from our bedroom on it; we have had for ten years, so we are aware of it. I am also a very seasoned disaster registered nurse that nursed at Katrina, and last week we were in the middle of Sandy ready to be evacuated back in Newport, Rhode Island. So my concerns are that there is a very steep curve to the road. Last week when it flooded and the rain came, there was massive water on our driveway. The, La‘aloa coming down, because of this steep curve, cars going up would probably be lifted up and taken down the hill. At the corner of Ali‘i Drive and La‘aloa, there is already a huge congestion problem, a traffic safety problem, because it dead-ends into a condo, it’s a dead-end street. We go to Living Stones Church; the traffic on Ali‘i Drive has been massively increased. I do agree something needs to be done. But you have an example of what happened on Royal Poinciana. And I haven’t been here long enough to know why Lako didn’t go through; I understand that it’s almost all the way down through, but it never went through. Some of the other things is the street has become kind of a place for drug exchanges, lovers lanes. It is a very frequently walked street with lots of animals, lots of walkers, lots of children. The maps currently shown here do not show the development that is higher up; there’s a lot of more houses here than it looks. This is Ali‘i Heights where we live. There is another development above it. ARAI: Twenty seconds. J. LEDERER: And I think we are playing with disaster. GIFFIN: Thank you very much. Sir, your name? L. LEDERER: My name is Lester Lederer, and I live, obviously with my wife, same place. And there are several concerns. No. 1 is at the La‘aloa and Ali‘i Drive, when the road goes through up 8 EXHIBIT E