2012-11-09 Windward Transcript Connections

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forestry and livestock programs. Traffic will back up and down Kaūmana Drive as these people try to enter Edita Street. Traffic rushing downhill will not have time to stop as they come around the curve resulting in deadly rear-end accidents. Kaumana Drive cannot be widened; and placing traffic signals would cause traffic to back up. The Planning Department recommends an 8-foot wide sidewalk and left-turn lane into the school. There is a concrete channel for water parallel to Edita Street. Private property will have to be condemned to widen this area. Teenage drivers are one of the highest risk categories. They tend to overestimate their driving skills. Upper Kaūmana rains a lot. Kaūmana Drive is tortuous and unforgiving. The risk of road crashes will be immediate, substantial and sustained. Connections Charter School will bus in some students. Public school buses presently have difficulty getting in and out of Edita Street. DARROW: One minute. H. LEE LOY: Developer William Brilhante has already opened up 40 more lots. He has no plans to extend Edita Street. Throughout the morning you will hear testimony from students, faculty and supporters. But please keep in mind safety takes priority. I took a Hippocratic oath to do no harm caring for my patients. Ask yourself am I putting the public in harm’s way if I allow this project? If you have questions, doubt or share my concern for more accidents, injuries, and death and lawsuits then you must do the right thing. No doubt your decision will disappoint many but would prevent unnecessary injury and save lives. It could be one of these fine young students standing before you. Lastly, I leave you with this image of an accident that occurred just 7 weeks ago. I invite you to come back to this image after each testimony and at the end of this hearing. Something this ambitious needs the support of the whole community, but as you will hear from my neighbors they clearly do not. I leave it in your hands. Thank you for your time. KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, thank you very much. So there are a few folks signed up to testify on behalf of somebody else. I’m going to permit that, but what I’d like those people to do is really stick with what the person that they representing, what their testimony is, and not a continuation of your own. So with that I will call up four more – Dr. Henry Lee Loy on behalf of Pauline and Larry Kimura, Dana Kenny, Terence Yoshioka and Jan Yokuama, Yokoama, Yokoyama, sorry. And I will wait till everybody gets here, and I will swear them in. So we have Jan? YOKOYAMA: Yes. KERN: Okay, hi. Terence, Terence? YOSHIOKA: Yes. 22 EXHIBIT A