2018-04-05 Hearing Transcript - Kelly & Joanne Jarneski REZ 18-226

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HALL: Please speak into the microphone, sir. MORI: The road is stressed already with traffic. We have tourists coming through there because they're directed to Boiling Pots, you know, where their GPS to come down that road, tourist buses will come through there, and then regular residential. It's a very dangerous road. There have been three or four accidents on that stretch of road that they've shown since I've been there, and it's because it's a one -lane road, and the safety depends upon drivers' courtesy rather than any traffic rules. So, that needs to be addressed. The other thing is more directly affecting me. When it rains, water from that property collects and floods across my property. It's a natural occurrence, like my yard is cut from the way the water has run over the years. My concern is once it's developed with houses there, it's going to change the flow of the water. It may make it worse. It may make it better. I want some assurance that it's going to make it, keep it the same or make it better because developing that property is going to change the water flow across that road, which also makes the road dangerous because the water accumulates across a 150 -foot stretch of that road as deep as six inches when it rains. And, we're not talking heavy rains. We're talking a normal Hilo rain. Those are my two objections to this. If we can do some kind of a, you know, water report on that to show how they're going to mitigate the water flow through that property once it's developed, and the traffic issue is a County thing. You guys are going to have to deal with it, but those are my two main concerns. CLARKSON: Any questions from the rest of the Commission? I just have one. I'd like to take a look again please at the photograph of the one -lane road just so I understand. I also drive over extensive one -lane roads to my house, and often meet oncoming traffic and one or the other of us has to pull over. Usually, I think County rules are that the downhill traffic has to yield to uphill traffic. It does appear to me that this road has very, it has some paved shoulder, and in this picture at least, a very broad unpaved shoulder that is well mown. What's under the grass? Is that just dirt? MORI: Well, it's dirt. What you can't see there is a couple of feet off the edge of that, it drops right off Now, on the Kaumana roadside between the Kaumana Road and the first property, there's trenches on either side of the road, so you have nowhere to go, and that's—it may be a couple hundred feet of the road, maybe a hundred yards of the road. So, you have nowhere to go. So you're depending upon, you know CLARKSON: Courtesy. MORI: Courtesy, and like I said, they've been three or four accidents there, so adding another 50 cars a day, you know, this is down the road obviously, but adding another 50 cars a day to that situation is not a good thing. CLARKSON: Thank you. EXHIBIT B 4