2015-02-05 HearingTranscript - Lance Moe REZ 14-183

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When you deal with like a medical facility, it kind of stages over time, and—and I’ll discuss the traffic aspect little bit later—but you know it’s again, you know, you don’t, it’s not a night club, so you don’t have like noisy kind of atmosphere like that, so, so you do have some residents in that area and so generally the kind of use that he has, I think it’s so much compatible with the evolving change in that area. I know that the letter that you know your staff had indicated you know that was circulated to the Commission you know did talk about some concerns relating to the traffic. You know, obviously you know we can’t address the letter’s, comments regarding the lack of enforcement on the adjoining properties, you know by Green Tours, or like the traffic impact on, that’s Big Island Candies or the Aloha Petroleum gas station is causing, and all that. But specifically, more like, you know just kind of focusing on this particular project and then trying to address the traffic related aspect. You know, we all know that from the Zoning Code standpoint, that a traffic impact study is needed if a project generates during the a.m. or the p.m. peak anyway, more than 50 vehicular movements per, during the a.m. or p.m. peak. In this situation, you know, obviously, it doesn’t. Dr. Gutteling’s operation as he mentioned, he basically wants to relocate his existing operation over there. They’ve already, he did like an extensive, over the last couple days, trying to figure out exactly how many patients that you know their establishment had seen over the, you know, the year 2014, and it came out to like on a typical day between eight to five, 38 patients a day, and so, even from a cumulative standpoint, you know, you don’t reach that 50 threshold on an a.m. or p.m. peak, right, you know and so, when you have like 38 patients a day, then it kind of averages about like one vehicular movement every 13 to 15 minutes, you know. On a—they do operate also up until 9 o’clock, so when you look at the five to nine, which is you know, to some extent like the p.m. peak, you know, they have roughly about 12 patients you know during that period, and that’s the average about one car for every 20 minutes. So, as far as the you know the projected traffic use for the facility, they do have very accurate number based on, based upon their current practice. The staff had indicated like how the traffic movements is gonna occur. It’s gonna be like right turn in, right turn out, with deliberate cut off so that you can make, you cannot make a left turn exiting the property onto Kekūanāo‛a. It will be exclusively designed for right turn, right, right turn in, right turn out. Dr. Gutteling had asked me like can you give me an example of what Public Works meant by having some sort of barrier so that you know you don’t, you know cannot make a left turn. I think a classic situation would be the Ka Waena Lapa‛au project on Komohana Street. You know, as you try to exit that property onto Komohana, you’ll, you know, find it very difficult, although you could, but you would find it very difficult to make a left turn from the Ka Waena Lapa‛au project onto Komohana Street because just, they do have that, that berm that prevents or minimizes the chance to make left-turn movements in that area. The full movements obviously will occur within the, the Laukapu Street section. The staff’s proposed condition also suggests, and the Applicant has accepted, the setting aside of 10-foot wide, you know, road right-of-way, right-of-way along Kekūanāo‛a Street so that eventually as the remaining properties in that area get developed and be set up with the same 5 EXHIBIT A