2013-08-01 Windward Planning Commission Transcript PD UH

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ISHIBASHI: Any questions, Commissioners? YADA: I guess I can offer that, you know, I asked Hans feel free to contact us, and we can put him in contact with our traffic engineers as they work through the analysis of traffic around; and we’ll do, we’ll consider what we can as part of that process. ISHIBASHI: Thank you. ARAI: Mr. Chairman? ISHIBASHI: Yes. ARAI: Mr. Santiago asked if, you know, he would be able to address the Commission once again. So if you’re willing -. ISHIBASHI: Yeah, sure. Come up, Mr. Santiago. You bring up legitimate concerns and –. SANTIAGO: Yeah -. ISHIBASHI: Tried to mitigate this way. SANTIAGO: I assume I’m still sworn in? ISHIBASHI: Yes. SANTIAGO: That exhibit that was submitted to you that shows the future planning of the University, it show connectivity up to the, to Sunrise Estates; and it shows other kind of activity, and a lot of future development, different ag parks, you know -. Looks like they may put in some major athletic stadiums, housing. But yet they kept Nowelo deadending right into the University. And anybody that has been at the University knows that Nowelo doesn’t serve any purpose to move traffic at all. It’s only going to move traffic just within the University. I do understand that you don’t want a major roadway running through the University and bisecting it, but you also don’t want major traffic running through the neighborhood, you know. People are at the University five days a week, people are in my neighborhood seven days a week, every single hour. So you want to take away the traffic through the University and put it onto the neighborhood, so -. I mean, it’s, you’ve got to deal with the traffic either way. So I still would recommend that either the 80-foot right-of-way be there and stay there, or some plan to connect Nowelo to Lanikāula so that you cannot have that mauka-maki traffic. So say if you were up, you’re a professor at the University, you have one of these residential places that they plan to develop and you want to get down to the plaza or somewhere down in Hilo, you can’t come down Nowelo Street and connect to all the businesses all in the industrial area. You’ve got to go Puainako or you’ve got to go to Mohouli. Well, Puainako is fine because they plan on taking the road behind of it, the buildings, you know behind the homes - great, great. But Mohouli Street, there’s no plans to mitigate any extra traffic coming down that roadway. 12 EXHIBIT B