2016-07-21 Leeward Exh B (Amend SMA 05-007)

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County for eventual construction of the right-of-way, okay. So what we are facing now is the reality that the highway may not be built. That being the case, the only alternative we have is Ali‘i Drive, and it wasn’t designed to, you know, maybe carry the full load of the entitled projects that could come on line, that are entitled to come on line. So at least our Department we are taking a look at it and we are having various conversations with the Department of Public Works in terms of at some point in time we need to, we have to take an accumulative look at what’s going on with Ali‘i Drive. With the opening of the Māmalahoa Bypass, you know, that’s going to provide some additional load on there. I will say, though, that there was a project along Ali‘i Drive that was just recently being considered by the County Council and the same issue, our roads, yeah, in terms of what the impact of that particular project was. For that project the Department of Public Works, Traffic Division, agreed with the analysis of the TIAR that the conditions with the project being implemented, this was a 52-unit project, would not result in a level of service that was more than Condition D, okay. Your level of service goes from A all the way to E; E is basically gridlock. And that was in consideration of other TIAR’s that they had reviewed over time, so that gave us an indication that there’s still a window here. But I can honestly say that we all need to take a real close look again because that alternative for the Ali‘i Bypass will probably not happen. The Kona CDP, mitigation efforts contained in the Kona CDP are also contingent on that roadway, you know, being done. So, you know, that’s kind of where we are in relation to your question. I hope I’ve given you some background on that. SHIMAOKA: Thank you. I’ve got a question for the applicant because, what I’m hearing from you, Ms. McMichael, is, your primary problem with this is the highway, the parkway, as far as a four-lane? Is that what I’m hearing from you? MCMICHAEL: What the impact is already happening on Ali‘i Drive is the safety for everyone, and it’s not going to get better; through the traffic studies it says that it increases 4 percent annually. And as Mr. Duane Kanuha has addressed of their traffic study that on the other project of Ali‘i Palms, I asked to see from the DOT the report. And the report is very much fraud, because there is original, they compared the study on why it was declining, the study was done in 2003 on Lunapule and at that time there wasn’t a three-way stop, there was not a total count of the cars, and in the report they consider the four-lane Ali‘i Highway and the extension of Lako into the report. So this is why it shows that it dropped. And it also showed that the increase, as Mr. Kanuha addressed, is the level, the level is A through F, and they, their prediction, and it says here, this is the copy, that without this project in 2035 the delay will be at 120.4 and that goes by seconds. So both intersections of Royal Poinciana and Lunapule it will be at F. And Kahalu‘u already is D and F; they don’t have a three-way stop there. So I’m saying this, that their study is fraud. And it’s, you know, I even spoke to them, and I said you are not here physically, but I didn’t know until I read the report from DOT that it was fraud. We don’t have the highway, and so it’s going to increase. And we have, it’s not only housing, it’s tourists that come here. So, and the high season, the high season for tourists, the high season will be the surf, and sometimes it takes us like ten minutes to pull out of a driveway, you know, so it’s not just the intersection, it’s the residents there. And it’s dangerous; all the cars go speeding. Maybe you should slow down, put bumpers or lower the speed limit, because it’s at 30 miles per hour, they are going 40, sometimes 45. And there is nowhere to walk. Where is the sidewalk? There is no 10 EXHIBIT B