2012-12-06 Windward Transcript Connections

Home

don’t see the appropriateness. Yes, they are going to be built and they’re trying to build in our community, but I don’t see it as being appropriate. They haven’t been a good neighbor as far as I’m concerned. But my biggest point is that if they start and they don’t finish and they can’t continue, what’s going to happen then? Who’s going to be responsible for whatever they put in? That’s all, you know, that would be one big question that I have, is -. And I don’t whether it’s under your purview to consider those things, but financially times are hard. I don’t know how they’re going to do this. For a lot of charter schools I don’t think they’re going to exist. They’re going to have to change the way they do business. Thank you. AU: Any questions for the testifier? Okay, Kerri Marks. You’ve already stated your name, so go ahead, three minutes. MARKS: Aloha. Back to the traffic, last time we were here we spoke about the traffic study that was done; and you mentioned about the light down by the gas station. I didn’t hear, or maybe there was, but I didn’t hear that there was any study done on that traffic coming up Puainako Road to Wright (sic) Road, and then down. Cause as I stated last time, that’s how you get from upper Kaumana to Puna and back. So you have to take that into account. And if you’ve only studied that traffic light and how the cars are going to stack up at that hill, then you have not done Kaumana any service at all. Because I guarantee you people are not going to drive all the across town to get to Waianuenue or Kaumana and turn up there. They’re going to filter up as they can as they get across town. And if you live off of Wright Road you will know that, I come down Kaumana to bring my kids to school in the morning. As I’m coming down Kaumana, almost every day there is a car that comes up to the stop sign, blows right on through it, and takes a right down the road. That’s how they do. It’s a roll through. Nobody stops there. So please take that into account. Please reassess the traffic situation. Don’t delude yourself into thinking that everybody is going to come through that stoplight. They’re not. I also take exception to the fact that everybody thinks that this traffic situation only affects Edita Street and the neighbors that live immediately around it. It affects everybody that lives above Edita Street. That’s how I get to my house and back. So that’s what I wanted to say. I just wanted to make sure that you take that into account. Like I said it’s already kind of a problem with the roll through stop. It will get worse, especially as you add - I don’t care if it’s 50 cars, not 200 - if you add cars to that situation, it’s going to be a problem. That’s all. Mahalo. AU: Okay. Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Okay, we have our last testifier, Jeff Gomes for his wife Wendy Gomes. GOMES: Hawaii Administrative Rules, Title 11, Department of Health, Chapter 200, 11-200-9, Chapter 6, Distribute, concurrently with the filing in paragraph (5), the draft environmental assessment to other agencies having jurisdiction or expertise as well as citizen groups and individuals, like myself and my neighbors, which the proposing agency reasonably believes to be affected. Now if they didn’t think we’d be affected living in Pacific Plantation, they’ve got to be crazy. Everybody living in there is going to be affected. And none of us were notified, none of us. 22 EXHIBIT D