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<br />TAKEMOTO: Yeah, I’ll just add a little bit more details on the, what we are considering for the
<br />long-range development plan in relation to circulation and traffic. But, first, let me just make a
<br />point that, you know, there may be a question in your mind, this piecemeal kind of thing -. Why
<br />are we are looking at this rezoning when the University is in the process of doing a long-range
<br />master plan for its entire areas under its control, including the lands mauka of Komohana? Now
<br />the answer to that question is whenever you’re doing a long-range plan, it doesn’t mean that
<br />everything stops. The University is actively working to improve its facilities on campus within
<br />the area that is being proposed for, initiated for rezoning. Several new buildings have already
<br />come up. The highly desired college of pharmacy that didn’t happen but was supposed to
<br />happen, and hopefully will, falls into this area. The University Village, that is as you’re driving
<br />up Kāwili on the left side, you see construction going on, that is the University Village; and that
<br />is just a first phase of several that hopefully will be coming on line. So there is a lot happening
<br />within this area that is being proposed for rezoning that doesn’t fit a residential existing zoning
<br />or Ag, which is a portion. So all we’re trying to do is, one, is expedite what is actually
<br />happening on the ground today; and, two, make it consistent with what is there today.
<br />Residential is not what you see today, or Agriculture. It’s University. So that’s the point about,
<br />you know, why are we acting today on this in light of a long-range plan that is in process.
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<br />Now as far as the long-range plan and circulation, there are a couple of things that we are really
<br />kind of focusing on. And, you know, a popular word today is “sustainability”; and part of that
<br />catch-word is trying to reduce dependency on driving, automobile traffic. We, and the way we
<br />are doing this for this plan is, couple things about, well, realizing that there is a lot of traffic and
<br />parking problems today -- so looking at the whole parking situation and trying to cite parking in
<br />a more strategic place that makes sense, and then linking those parking places with other means
<br />for the students to get around within the campus. So one of the ideas is a fancy term called
<br />“people movers.” And when you think, dream in the end, it could be like a monorail. But the
<br />immediate implementation of that concept may be an electric shuttle bus. So students park away
<br />from Mohouli Street, and they’re able to jump on this shuttle and get within the University itself.
<br />Cause it is a big area, it is kind of uphill, so we don’t expect students to run to their class or walk
<br />extra fast. We try to make it convenient.
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<br />And for the existing roadways, we are trying to link up so that Nowelo does function better as a
<br />way to circulate within the campus without having to go on Mohouli and to other perimeter
<br />streets around the campus. And, you know, if that 80-foot road does go through the campus, it is
<br />going to be a major impact. It will just divide that campus and kind of destroy all that
<br />cohesiveness and trying to get to a more pedestrian environment of the campus. That 80-foot
<br />would just destroy that concept.
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<br />Now as far as the mauka connections that Commissioner Ono was talking about, it may be a
<br />good idea to keep that for now because it is, the land is under the control of the University, it is
<br />part of our long-range master plan. And these lines on the General Plan are just concept only.
<br />So, as Daryn was alluding to, the concept that it’s trying to tell long-range developers like that,
<br />like us, is that there may be, it may be a good idea to, in your master plan, to look at a connection
<br />between Komohana and Mohouli or somewhere in Sunrise to kind of complete a circulation in
<br />that mauka area. If you, and that we can look at in the process of this long-range development
<br />plan. But to eliminate the makai portion, segment now really would help the projects that are on-
<br />going on the books right now.
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