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extended and connected to the proposed 120-foot Saddle Road-Puainako Street <br /> alignment and extend further to the upper Waiakea Uka Homestead area. <br /> 2) Ainako Street is approximately 0.5 miles east of (makai) Akolea Road. It <br /> presently has a 20-foot pavement and paved pedestrian walkway and drainage <br /> ditches along both sides within an existing 70-foot right-of-way. The properties <br /> along both sides of Ainako Street have a building setback line of 25 feet. <br /> Ainako Street right-of-way is proposed to be extended and connected to <br /> Mohouli Street. <br /> 3) Kilauea Avenue has an existing 70-foot right-of-way and is proposed to be <br /> widened to an 80-foot right-of-way. <br /> The Hilo Community Development Plan (CDP), adopted by Planning Commission <br /> <br /> Resolution in 1975, is intended to provide short and middle range implementation strategies <br /> <br /> for the goals, policies and land use pattern presented in the General Plan. The Hilo <br /> <br /> Community Development Plan recommended the area between Waianuenue Avenue and <br /> <br /> Wailuku River for residential uses. Although the Hilo CDP also recommended that Komohana <br /> Street be extended in a northerly direction, the subject location for the proposed connection <br /> <br /> would not be feasible due to the existing residences already in place and the possibility of <br /> <br /> costly improvements to construct a bridge over that portion of Wailuku River. <br /> The City of Hilo Zone Map was also adopted to reflect roadway networks and <br /> circulation systems. As previously noted in the feasibility study, the City of Hilo Zone Map <br /> delineates Komohana Street as a proposed 80-foot right-of-way secondary arterials as well as <br /> for Akolea Road, Ainako Street and Kilauea Avenue. <br /> The existing Komohana Street was constructed in 1967 to provide transportation <br /> movement between the Kaumana and Waiakea Homesteads areas. Since then, residential <br /> subdivisions have been developing along Komohana Street, in the Kaumana and Piihonua areas <br /> and in the upper Waiakea Homesteads areas. These regional growth on both sides of the City <br /> of Hilo has resulted in heavy traffic and at times traffic congestion on Komohana Street as well <br /> as at its major intersections with Waianuenue Avenue, Ponahawai Street, Mohouli Street, <br /> Puainako Street and Kawailani Street. <br /> -12- <br /> <br />