2019-01-03 Hearing Transcript - Bank of HI REZ 18-231

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CLARKSON: Okay. If there are no further questions, will the Applicant or their representative please come forward? Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Commission today? FUKE/PACKARD: I do. CLARKSON: Please use the microphone when you speak. Please introduce yourself and who you're representing or in what capacity you're representing the Applicant and proceed. FUKE: Sure. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Commission. My name is Sidney Fuke. I'm a planning consultant. I'm here representing the Applicant. With me today also are the Applicants, Ms. Natalie Fogel and Keene Fujinaka both with the Bank of Hawaii. My business address is 100 Pauahi Street. PACKARD: Aloha, my name is Mike Packard. I'm a traffic engineer with SSFM. I'm here representing Bank of Hawaii. FUKE: Mr. Chair, before I start, could I ask the staff to go back again and show the I guess the Google Earth picture of the property which shows the subject property in relation to, all the way down to, I think you had it down to Kilauea? KAY: Yes, sir. FUKE: Thank you. Mr. Chairman, the Applicant has had a chance to review the staff's report, and as always, the staff's report is comprehensive, and there's no additions or corrections to them. As far as the proposed conditions and also the condition that was articulated this morning, the Applicant has no issues with all of those conditions, you know, with the exception of one, and that's the reason why I had requested the staff to direct your attention to what's on the screen there. What we would like to propose is to have and which is before you, is to give the Applicant the ability to have full movement access along Lanikaula Street at least for a one-year period because that's the reason why I had Mr. Packard coming up here in case there are specific questions dealing with the traffic study. But, his study basically had concluded that there really would not be any significant impact to the Lanikaula-Kino`ole Street intersection, you know, by allowing left -turn movement. On the other hand, both the Department and the Traffic Division, you know, said that well, maybe not so, but although there is no substantiated studies along that line. So, what the Applicant would like to propose is that to provide an opportunity for them to have full movement access along Lanikaula Street, you know, within a year's period, just for a trial run, and should at that point in time after a year or for that matter, two or three years down the road, that Public Works, Traffic Division, determine that, no, you have to make some changes to that area and then you have to limit that access point to just one way in and one way out, then it becomes incumbent upon the Applicant to so make the change within the six-month period. And, that's essentially what we're EXHIBIT A 4