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Page 1 of 2 <br /> Murashige, Laura <br /> From: rscarola@mindspring.com <br /> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 10:15 AM <br /> To: Pilago, K. Angel; Isbell, Virginia; Higa, Stacy; phoffman@co.hawaii.hi.us; Holschuh, Fred; Ikeda, <br /> Donald; Arakaki, James; Jacobson, Bob; Safarik, Gary <br /> Subject: Roads & Development in West Hawaii <br /> April 22, 2005 , <br /> Dear Hawaii Council Members: <br /> I know you must deal with tremendous pressures on a daily basis, and I appreciate the effort you area <br /> <br /> making to balance all of the difficult and complex issues you have to decide upon. And I now believe <br /> <br /> you have reached a critical juncture in your efforts to plan for reasoned growth in West Hawaii. I b~ieve <br /> <br /> you must at this point factor in to your thinking the following considerations: <br /> 1. There are already many subdivision developments that have been approved in West Hawaii and are <br /> going forward, and these will add a heavy burden to a currently overburdened infrastructure, especially <br /> roads. <br /> 2. Allowing additional new developments at this time, without first providing the necessary road <br /> infrastructure for what already exists and what has already been approved, will only take us <br /> from a nearly critical situation to an emergency situation. <br /> 3.). This is especially the case with any development bordering Alii Drive, Kuakini Highway, or the <br /> Queen Kaahumanu Highway, such as the development being proposed by Suffolk Investment to put in <br /> 350 dwelling units and a shopping center makai of Pualani Estates. Placing a cross traffic intersection on <br /> Highway 11 and the Kuakini Highway just before Kailua town to service an additional 700 -1000 or <br /> more cars from that development seems absolutely untenable. Adding commercial businesses in the <br /> proposed shopping center will only add more traffic from people who wish to shop there on a daily <br /> basis. We are nearly at gridlock already at certain times of day trying to get into and out of town, so <br /> another small local shopping center will not help people who need or want to go to Lowes, Costco, <br /> Home Depot, downtown Kailua, and the industrial parks. Nor will it deter those people from trying to <br /> get on the highway to go to those places. Instead, the additional traffic, stoplights, etc. will be a disaster <br /> for people trying to get to the airport or who commute to work in the resorts or in Kailua from South <br /> Kona. <br /> 4.) It will not help to have affordable housing that places an untenable burden on an already barely <br /> functional road infrastructure (not to mention water, schools, police, sewage, etc). This is a false promise <br /> and helps no one. <br /> 5.) Connector roads must have something to connect to that makes sense. There must be a divided four- <br /> lane highway at least from Keauhou all the way to the airport before anything else is even proposed in <br /> West Hawaii. Such a highway should be the absolute priority of the Council, and a temporary <br /> moratorium should be put in place on all other development and roads until such a highway project is <br /> accomplished. I believe that the residents of West Hawaii would strongly support you if you made such <br /> a highway the major emergency project on your agenda. <br /> Comm. No. ~ Q~O 0 <br /> Ref. To: _ <br /> 4/22/2005 Raf, Late 2 <br /> <br />