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CLARKSON: All right. We'll start on this end. Please introduce yourself and begin with your
<br />testimony.
<br />REIS, C.: My name is Cheryl Reis, and I live at [stated address] which is below the Wailani
<br />project. First of all, let me clarify. Nobody doesn't like the Matsuura's. We all love them.
<br />They've been around for a long time with us.
<br />So, good morning, everyone, and thank you for the opportunity to comment. I have opposed this
<br />project to the area since it first began as University Terrace in 2004 and have the same repeated
<br />concerns for the Wailani project to a much greater degree. Area residents on upper Punahele
<br />Street previously signed a petition also opposing the University Terrace project for the same
<br />issues and is included in that particular Planning Department project file.
<br />The Wailani project wants to build 700 residential units, closer to 750 requested in the original
<br />University Terrace proposal. At two vehicles per household, a roughly 1,400 vehicle round -trips
<br />a day adding 200 miscellaneous trips for visitors, you could have 1,700 vehicle trips for
<br />residential areas only. Commercial will add to that total depending on the business type, and
<br />remember, the medical park is a business. There could be another 24 vehicle round trips plus in
<br />the medical park alone. So, a conservative estimate of traffic added to both the Komohana
<br />Corridor and Mohouli Extension could be in excess of 6,000 vehicles per day. There is no safe,
<br />practical plan for vehicular access to the project than entering/exiting via Ponahawai Extension
<br />at Komohana and Mohouli Extension. Adding Pu`uhonu Place to exit onto Komohana, given its
<br />limited sight distance and volume of daily traffic, and even with a right -turn only restriction,
<br />could be a recipe for disaster. The police agreed in this in their first evaluation with this premise.
<br />No street, as is, bordering the project is equipped to handle the projected vehicle counts and
<br />should not direct increased traffic through the old neighborhoods that weren't designed to handle
<br />the volume, and if they are to be improved, who foots the bill for this?
<br />University Terrace planned 49 acres next to the Sunrise Ridge Subdivision as Open Space
<br />because of wetland areas. The project would build a 138 residential lots in that same area.
<br />Water and drainage are huge concerns particularly for downhill residents and businesses. Sewer
<br />connection is another basic County—State services, for example, police, fire, EMS, and DOE
<br />will be impacted. The fair share requirement should not be waived.
<br />No commercial, recreational, or any other non-residential use should be allowed next to existing
<br />residences surrounding the project as shown. Daily noise from patrons, cell phone usage, 4:30
<br />a.m. trash pick-up, business deliveries, vehicle alarms, accidents, restaurants, loud music,
<br />skateboarders, athletic games, homeless congregating, and criminal activity are realistically a
<br />part of the package. The developer should be required to install and regularly maintain a
<br />landscape buffer zone between the project's boundary and existing residential areas to minimize
<br />negative impacts from the project. Daily construction, noise, dust, diesel exhaust, etc. will affect
<br />the older residential areas on upper Punahele, Kaumana Gardens, and along Kaumana Drive, and
<br />others bordering the project until the project is completed, and realistically this will take years.
<br />With the inclusion of senior housing, the project should also provide a dedicated community
<br />center with staff designated and trained by a County, by County emergency responders to serve
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