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KONG ~~~-OFFIC SAFETY COMMf~TT~F <br /> ~ I ' 77-180 KEKAI PLACE * KAILUA-KONA • I-IAWA!' 196740 * 808-331-2765 <br /> ....._...........n,_..________ <br /> Promoting traffic safety for vehicular and pedestrian traffic: facilitating traffic movement <br /> through parking, public access, and assistance to the business and residential <br /> - ~ community; facilitating communication between the public and private sector; and <br /> promoting the positive aspects of roadways, their visual characteristics and beautification. <br /> July 22, 2002 <br /> Bobby dean Leithead-Todd <br /> Chair -Committee for Planning <br /> County of Hawaii <br /> 25 Aupuni St. <br /> Hilo, Fit 96720 <br /> Dear Chairman Leithead-Todd, <br /> Re: Bill No. 232 -The Gomes Family Limited Partnership <br /> The Kona Traffic Safety Committee is concerned about proposed development on land adjacent and north of <br /> Kealoha, Kona Heights and Kailua mew Estates subdivisions. Developers are seeking re-zoning from agriculture-5 <br /> acre to asingle-family residential development to be accessed through three subdivisions: Kailua mew Estates (Nani <br /> Kailua Drive), and Kealoha Subdivision (Kawena Street), Kona Heights Subdivision (Weld St., Aloha Kona & Kini <br /> Loop.) <br /> The potential development on the full parcel owned by the partnership ~rarraaats the dedi~ted iss~r~s seed egress <br /> fe°~rn a d~elaspe~eeeat oe~ a major arteraatl rather than through existing neighborhoods, where the streets are <br /> already overburdened, or at least improvements to the neighborhood roadways to accommodate and calm the <br /> additional traffic. <br /> Kona's expansion history is full of inadences where developer's initially sought permits for only a small segment of <br /> their full plan of development keeping projects ~~der the level where impacts kick-in. The community has <br /> suffered greatly as a result of these dodges, whiff obll: us as the Kona Traffic Safety Committee anti you as the <br /> County Council Planning Committee to be espea~ ~€~ifant a~ insure that the full implicati~sns of all <br /> developments are considered, and further to take action to prevent the creation of any more unsafe traffic <br /> situations. <br /> With the passing of a motion at our )uly 23, 2002 meeting, the- Kona Traffic Safety Committee request that you <br /> place conditions of development on the pr®ject or other such action that will properly handle the traffic created <br /> from a full built-out of the land. <br /> Sin I , <br /> <br /> Ann C. Peterson <br /> Chair <br /> axaxi< ATa~a <br /> CC: Planning Committee Members ~f~ ~ <br /> Peter T. Young f< <br /> 1~f• ]lit <br /> <br />