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Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - dan d - 10-29-2018
Resolution 732 is being introduced in the Public Works and Parks and Recreation Committee at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday November 1st. I wrote this resolution to try and direct Puna relief efforts towards opening access to roads (like Railroad, or alternatives) and recovering lost public highways (in particular, highway 132) in order to spur recovery so people can return to their homes, farms, and properties. This resolution will need support! So please come to the Hilo Chambers or my Pahoa office to give live testimony in support of this effort. You can also submit written testimony to counciltestimony@hawaiicounty.gov - it doesn't hurt to repeat yourself a couple of times! Just be sure to get it in by Tuesday, October 30th.
Please do reply if this isn’t what you were asking about, or need further help.
Kendra Tidwell
Hawaii County Council Aide
District 4: Eileen O’Hara
Office: (808)965-2712
HPP
RE: Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - dan d - 10-30-2018
Can people that want the roads put in in puna please come to Mrs Eileen Ohara office today in pahoa at the old police station , VERY IMPORTANT, MUST BE DONE TODAY.
Aloha
HPP
RE: Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - dan d - 10-30-2018
I support this resolution. We are not being listened to about our needs here in puna,after the lava flow. We need more and better roads. We need a Mayor that will help us. Right now
We need a road all the way to pohoiki,issac hale. Now there is none.
We need a pool that works,now there is none. We need safety at leilani estates, now there is none.
Please approve the resolution.
Aloha
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This is the kind of message you can send .If you agree u can copy and paste
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Please send here
counciltestimony@hawaiicounty.gov
HPP
RE: Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - kalakoa - 10-30-2018
Not saying we don't need this, but concerned about the "weasel posture":
it urges the County administration to develop these proposed alternative routes
...
should be the highest priority for the County Administration
I don't see any "action words" here.
RE: Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - Obie - 10-30-2018
This link will take you to the County's website and the entire resolution :
https://tinyurl.com/y8xd3v6u
RE: Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - Obie - 10-30-2018
quote:
Originally posted by kalakoa
Not saying we don't need this, but concerned about the "weasel posture":
I don't see any "action words" here.
What do you mean by"weasel posture" and "action words" ?
RE: Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - kalakoa - 10-30-2018
What do you mean by"weasel posture" and "action words" ?
Read the resolution text. Perhaps the legislative process requires that we first "urge the County Administration to develop" but that sounds an awful lot like commissioning a study as a way of appearing to take action.
Please, County, may we have a road to our homes? Pretty-please?
RE: Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - kalakoa - 10-30-2018
Off-topic but really on:
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018/10/30/hawaii-news/leilani-estates-checkpoint-to-remain-for-now/
Kim said continuing the checkpoint beyond the end of November is always an option, particularly considering the possibility of a resurgence in volcanic activity.
Kim added that the county also might develop a plan for a publicly accessible lava viewing area while determining how to move forward with the checkpoint.
An option ... because the possibility ... might develop a plan while coming up with a plan ...
It's not rocket science, nor did the eruption just happen yesterday. Why are we still at the "might develop a plan" stage? Possibly because it's all just talk, and County has no intention of actually taking action?
It's not like we pay their salaries or anything. (Before someone says "but it's FEMA money", don't forget we pay for that too, it's just coming out of a different pocket.)
RE: Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - dan d - 10-30-2018
COUNTY OF HAWAII - STATE OF HAWAII
RESOLUTION NO. 732 18
A RESOLUTION URGING THE COUNTY OF HAWAII TQ MAKE RECOVERING
THOSE SECTIONS OF COUNTY HIGHWAY 132 THAT WERE INUNDATED WITH
LAVA FROM THE MAY 3, 2018 VOLCANIC ERUPTION A TOP PRIORITY IN
PUNA' S RECOVERY EFFORTS, AND COMMENCE PLANNING THE FUNDING AND
ROUTING OF A REPLACEMENT ROAD AND IMMEDIATE IMPLEMENTATION OF
ALTERNATIVE ROUTES TO ACCOMMODATE RESIDENTS OF AFFECTED
COMMUNITIES.
WHEREAS, the volcanic eruPption in Puna that started May3, 2018, has resulted in the
loss of a significant number of miles of both public and private roadways; and
WHEREAS, approximately 3 miles of County Highway 132, which provides the
primary access to much of Kapoho, from Lava Tree State monument to Cape Kumukahi was
covered by lava from the May 3rd eruption; and
WHEREAS, in early May 2018, the County paved a ten-foot wide asphalt strip of the
previously graveled 3. 8 miles of Government Beach Road from the Hawaiian Shores
Recreational Estates terminus at the privately-owned Papio Street, which has a 40- foot right-ofway,
to the remnant of County Highway 137 built across the 1960 lava flow; and
WHEREAS, the paving of Government Beach Road, which is narrow and winding, was
completed to accommodate access for the Kapoho area residents and businesses given the
direction taken by the May 3rd lava event; and
WHEREAS, the recently paved section of Government Beach Road is part of the Old
King' s Highway and has always been deemed an emergency access road by the County; and
WHEREAS, the initial quarter mile of Government Beach Road no longer follows the
original road right-of-way due to cliff subsidence into the ocean and the entire section known as
Honolulu Landing is fully within the tsunami zone, making it unsafe as an emergency route
during high surf events, such as hurricanes and tsunamis; and
WHEREAS, due to the May 3rd lava event, Government Beach Road is now the only
access for hundreds of households living along Government Beach Road, in the Wa`awa`a
Subdivision, on Papaya Farms Road, and in the area known as Noni Farms Road, placing these
residents in peril due to inability to evacuate by roadway when the area experiences another
extreme weather event; and
WHEREAS, due to the impacts of the May 3rd lava event, the Kapoho Cinder Pits
continue to be utilized by local trucking businesses providing much needed materials for road
building, which results in approximately 50 commercial truck trips daily of thirty-three cubic
yard cinder trucks traversing the narrow Government Beach Road, navigating the narrow and
privately held Papio Street, and continuing six miles up Kahakai Boulevard to Highway 130,
through a residential neighborhood where speed limits are set at 35 miles-per-hour, with no
paved shoulders and limited pedestrian walkways, thus creating a nuisance and public safety
issue; and
WHEREAS, a realignment of the Government Beach Road with Coastal Puna Parkway
owned by the Hawaiian Shores Community Association, which has an eighty foot right-of-way,
twenty-four feet of asphalt, and well maintained grassy shoulders, is supported by the landowner
Habashi) of the property known as Honolulu Landing and desired by the Hawaiian Shores
Community Association, owner of Coastal Puna Parkway which the association would like to
dedicate to the County; and
WHEREAS, the realignment of the Government Beach Road with Coastal Puna
Parkway would resolve the problems of subsidence andinundation by the ocean along the stretch
of the road known as Honolulu Landing and provide the County with a road right-of-way
extending from Hawaiian Paradise Park to Kapoho; and
WHEREAS, the nearly 150 active farms, homes, and agricultural lands in the area of
Kapoho referred to as Noni Farms that were not inundated with lava, must now take a lengthy
circuitous route along old cane roads, across private properties, down the narrow, windy and
hilly section of the Government Beach Road connecting to privately owned Papio Street, and
then six miles up Kahakai Boulevard to reach Highway 130 increasing the commute to Pahoa by
approximately 30- 35 minutes since the lava event; and
WHEREAS, there exists an old railroad right-of-way in this area that connects to Kahala
Street (Railroad) in Hawaiian Shores Recreational Estates and another section connects to Kehau
Boulevard in Nanawale Estates; and
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WHEREAS, gaining a perpetual right-of-way from the four landowners (Lyman, Chow,
Kamehameha Schools/ Bishop Estates, and State of Hawai' i) holding title to these railroad
rights- of-way can be achieved.and a portion of this alternative access has already been developed
as a gravel roadway for.emergency use only and remains behind a locked gate inaccessible to the
public; and
WHEREAS, developing these alternative roadways was already under consideration as a
part of a road connectivity plan for Lower Puna with an internal working group spearheaded by
the Mayor' s office to accommodate future growth. The May 3rd volcanic eruption has increased
the urgency to develop these alternatives; and
WHEREAS, the alternative road access involving the realignment of Government Beach
Road and opening of the Railroad right-of-way provide more immediate solutions for
accommodating land owners', needs for access in the Kapoho area, but do not resolve all access
issues such as large commercial truck traffic along residential roadways and access to the many
hundreds of acres of farmland and dozens of homesteads that were not inundated by lava and
which were located south of Highway 132; and
WHEREAS,.large landowners and commercial operations with;expertise, materials, and
heavy equipment are interested in.partnering with the County-to open alternative accesses and
rebuild Highway 132; and
WHEREAS, rebuilding the sections of Highway 132 that were inundated by lava either
along the existing right-of-way or along an alternative path, will resolve access issues for nearly
all the Kapoho area communities while private landowners will.need.to take the lead in
developing secondary access from a rebuilt Highway 132; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF TME COUNTY OF HAWAII that it
urges the County administration to develop these proposed alternative access routes to realign
Government Beach Road and open the Railroad right-of-way to Kahala-Street and/ or Kehau
Boulevard as soon as possible. ..
BE IT,FURTHER RESOLVEI).that rebuilding Highway, 132 and identifying funding
sources, obtaining road easements, planning.and engineering road construction should be the
highest priority for the County Administration.
HPP
RE: Eileen Ohara resolution 732 - dan d - 10-30-2018
Instead of arguing perhaps just send in your ok please. If not please just disregard.
Aloha
HPP