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i. , <br /> . , <br /> KONA OUTDOOR CIRCLF~ <br /> 76-628o Kuakini Highway '09 (1flY 25 Pfd 2 9 <br /> Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740-2286 <br /> Phone: (808) 329-7286 • Fax: (808) 334-9646 ' <br /> Email: konaoutdoorcircle<~konacoast.com CDi1Ni` ~ '~~'d'"'~~! <br /> www.konaoutdoorcircle.org <br /> 1 <br /> Mr. Gary Safarik <br /> <br /> Chair <br /> Hawaii County Council Committee on <br /> Public Works & intergovernmental Relations <br /> Hawaii County Building <br /> 25 Aupuni Street <br /> Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br /> Dear Mr. Safarik <br /> I am pleased to write to you on behalf of Kona Outdoor Circle's Board of Directors. Your June <br /> agenda includes consideration of a Revised Sign Code, which Councilman Curtis Tyler and you <br /> have proposed. <br /> The new revised Sign Code is swell-written document, which has been carefully researched to <br /> insure that it overcomes the weaknesses inherent in the present code. It provides an instrument <br /> that offers a strong, swift, and enforceable response to illegal signs. <br /> The history of illegal signs in West Hawaii is legendary. For years, and despite major efforts in <br /> educating the business community on legal signs and how to display them, the provisions of the <br /> existing sign code are repeatedly violated. The present sign code does not allow swift penalties <br /> for illegal signs. In fact, enforcement is a long, tedious and ineffectual process. Therefore, <br /> violations are often willful, blatant and make a total mockery of the law. Illegal signs are blight <br /> and a reflection of a sign code that doesn't work. <br /> Kona Outdoor Circle's mission is to keep Kona clean, green, and beautiful. Illegal signs certainly <br /> are contrary to that mission. Far the sake of residents and visitors alike we are counting on you <br /> to endorse the Revised Sign Code and refer it to the County Council far ratification. <br /> Mahalo for your consideration. <br /> Alot~, <br /> a, <br /> Anne Irene Wilcox <br /> President <br /> Kona Outdoor Circle <br /> Gaorem. No. <br /> ief. To: / <br /> Ref. Uate _ <br /> rain's u<~N arctci i o Tarr-u <br /> <br />