2017-01-05 Hearing Transcript - Rhodes Moore LLC Amend REZ 840

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And, lastly, the Applicant submitted, shortly after you got your Background and Recommendation Reports, the Applicant submitted an updated diagram of their proposed transportation improvements along Kahaopea Street. And, before I conclude the presentation, the next item on the agenda is a request for a Use Permit on the same property for the assisted living facility. I was going to wait to go into the transportation improvements in the next presentation, but if the Commission would like to see a diagram of those improvements and have me explain those now, I can do that now. It's up to you. Yes? HENKEL: That's fine. JACKSON: Okay. Let me go forward then. Okay, the Applicant did a traffic study for the assisted living facility and their proposed commercial development, and the traffic study recommended that the west leg of this intersection—this is Kahaopea Street and then the highway running north -south. And, this would be Baskin-Robbins, Subway and then the subject property would be in the bottom east corner here. So, the traffic study recommended that this storage lane here on the west leg of Kahaopea Street be extended, and so I believe the Department of Public Works, Traffic Division, has agreed to work with DOT to extend that left - turn pocket I believe about 25 feet to add more storage. So, you can see they're actually going to change the lane configuration and add additional storage. Right now, there is a through -lane and a left -turn lane, and then a separate right -turn lane, and they're going to change it to a dedicated left -turn lane and a combined through, right -turn lane. So, in addition to that, the Applicant is also going to improve their frontage along Kahaopea Street so this is along the east leg of the intersection. You have the highway here. Kahaopea Street. This is the subject property here. Currently, it's a narrow two-lane road. It's also steep. The Applicant, as I mentioned before, is proposing a driveway off of, directly across from Awapuhi Street, and then they are going to be providing ten feet of road widening along their frontage with curb, gutter, sidewalk drainage improvements. And, so you can see that will change the lane configuration a little bit. Now, there will be not as sharp of a turn here. It's a pretty sharp turn right now going onto Kahaopea Street, so this radius will be improved, and then you'll have a through lane in the eastbound direction. You'll also have turn pockets into Awapuhi Street and then into the project driveway in this location here. And, then the road will be widened so that there will be a dedicated left -turn lane onto the highway, and a combined through and right -turn lane onto the highway. So, with that, that concludes my presentation. Thank you. HENKEL: Thank you, Maija. Are there any questions from the Commissioners for staff? I have one question. Maija, is there—there's not going to be a right turn out, right turn in situation there, right JACKSON: No, that's a full HENKEL: coming from the subject property EXHIBIT A 4