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Pnge 1 of 3 Connie Vohden From: <rscarola@mindspring.com> To: <ckvohdenQhotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:53 AM Subject: Letters to County Council, Mayor Kim, other representatives Hi Connie-- Thank you for the great effort you aze making on behalf of all of us at Kahakai Estates. Here are copies of the two a-mails we sent-- the first in April, the second yesterday. Aloha, Nancy and Robert Scarola E-mail #1: April 22, 2005 1 Dear Hawaii Council Members: I know you must deal with tremendous pressures on a daily basis, and I appreciate the effort you aze making to balance all of the difficult and complex issues you have to decide upon. And I now believe you have reached a critical juncture in your efforts to plan for reasoned growth in West Hawaii. I believe you must at this point factor in to your thinking the following considerations: 1. There are already many subdivision developments that have been approved in West Hawaii and are going forward, and these will add a heavy burden to a currently overburdened infrastructure, especially roads. 2. Allowing additional new developments at this time, without first providing the necessary road infrastructure for what already exists and what has already been approved, will only take us from a nearly critical situation to an emergency situation. 3.). This is especially the case with any development bordering Alii Drive, Kuakini Highway, or the Queen Kaahumanu Highway, such as the development being proposed by Suffolk Investment to put in 350 dwelling units and a shopping center makai of Pualani Estates. Placing a cross traffic intersection on Highway 11 and the Kuakini Highway just before Kailua town to service an additiona1700 -1000 or more cars from that development seems absolutely untenable. Adding commercial businesses in the proposed shopping center will only add more traffic from people who wish to shop there on a daily basis. We are nearly at gridlock already at certain times of day trying to get into and out of town, so another small local shopping center will not help people who need or want to go to Lowes, Costco, Home Depot, downtown Kailua, and the industrial parks. Nor will it deter those people from trying to get on the highway to go to those places. Instead, the additional traffic, stoplights, etc. will be a disaster for people trying to get to the airport or who commute to work in the resorts or in Kailua from South Kona. Comm. No.~ b •59 - Ref. To: Prew'~M ~ Reif. :`ate .IL1N 1 4 9005 6/13/2005