2013-08-01 Windward Planning Commission Transcript PD UH

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ONO: So that’s the upper left-hand corner of the map? ARAI: No. The entire area, the two light gray colored areas, the dark gray and the light gray, those are the lands that we want to see rezoned to the University zoning district. And as I mentioned earlier, it would exclude the Waiākea Floodway. And the reason why we excluded it is because it’s actually under separate management. It belongs to the State. The University and the floodway belongs to the State but different agencies. The floodway, I believe, is under the Department of land and Natural Resources; and it’s not with the University of Hawai‘i. ISHIBASHI: Commissioner Moses? MOSES: Daryn, the change of zone would also include the deletion of the proposed 80-foot right-of-way? ARAI: That is, the 80-foot right-of-way, correct. ISHIBASHI: Any further questions, Commissioners? Okay, thank you. We have one testifier. If I could have Hans Santiago. Please come forward. Could you raise your right hand. Do you swear and affirm to tell the truth before the Windward Planning Commission over this matter? SANTIAGO: I do. ISHIBASHI: Okay, thank you. Mr. Santiago, go ahead. SANTIAGO: My name is Hans Santiago and I live at 572A Mohouli Street. So I’m here not to testify against the rezoning, but I’m here to ask that you reconsider the deletion of the 80-foot future roadway that would pretty much connect Lanikāula up to Komohana Street. Right now I live at the top of Mohouli, and traffic can get really, really bad in the morning. So I know the University has a plan to extend -. Well, right now Nowelo Street is, would be considered their main street that runs through the University. But, really, Nowelo Street does not provide for any traffic flow throughout the University. When you really think about it, all the parking is down at the lower end by Kapi‘olani Street. So traffic either needs to go up Puainako and come back around to the top where Imiloa is or go up Kumukoa, come out Mohouli and come back down. I know Nowelo connects through the University in the back side by the dorms, but that’s impractical. There’s a lot of speed bumps and, you know -. I’m sure everybody ate at Imiola. If you’re going up, you’re not going to go through Nowelo cause it takes too long. You’re going to go up Mohouli and you’re going to come to Komohana and come back down. So that, to me, puts more traffic congestion on Mohouli. Then, as a resident, any type of alleviation of traffic would be wonderful on Mohouli. So, really, I would like to see some comprehensive plan from the University that would have a major roadway come through the University that can actually connect to the major parking areas that currently exists in the University. Unless they’re going to revamp that whole area and put all the major parking in the middle of the campus and have Nowelo, and then have some connectors in between, to me it’s kind of like they’re pushing all the traffic from the University 5 EXHIBIT B