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<br /> Stacy Higa, Chairman <br /> <br /> and Members of the County Council <br /> <br /> Page 9 <br /> There are no significant adverse impacts that maybe generated by rezoning of the <br /> project site to a RM-2.5 zoned district upon public utilities and facilities. Potential <br /> impacts have been identified and assessed and appropriate mitigative measures will be <br /> incorporated within this favorable recommendation. Therefore, the request would not <br /> unreasonably burden the public agencies to provide roads and streets, water, drainage, <br /> police and fire protection. Access to the property will be from Kuakini Highway, which <br /> is a State owned, County maintained roadway with a 22-foot wide pavement within an <br /> approximate 80-foot right-of--way and from the proposed Kahului to Keauhou Parkway <br /> right-of way. The roadway access is a difficult issue for this project. Eventually, the <br /> Kahului to Keauhou Parkway (also known as the Alii Parkway) is supposed to be built <br /> along the northern boundary of the site. The right-of--way is 100 feet wide. Of this, 50 <br /> Feet is within the applicant's property, and 50 feet is within the parcel to the north. The <br /> right-of--way has been planned and the roadway has been designed, but the right-of--way <br /> has not been acquired. This portion of the Kahului to Keauhou Parkway is considered the <br /> 2nd phase and has not been funded. The first phase from Keauhou to the proposed Lako <br /> Street extension, which had been funded, is stalled over the issue of a burial in the right- <br /> of-way at the Keauhou end, and funding has been pushed back to 2008. <br /> Nevertheless, planning for this area must incorporate the eventual construction of <br /> the Parkway. This raised two main issues: the long-term ingress and egress to the project <br /> once the Parkway is built, and the potential effects of the Parkway on the residential <br /> project once the project is built, especially noise impacts. Initially, the applicant proposed <br /> to have access over a 30-foot wide driveway constructed on the planned right-of--way of <br /> the Parkway, creating an intersection with Kuakini. After the Parkway is built, however, <br /> this would have to be connected to an intersection with the Parkway because the driveway <br /> could not terminate at the main Kuakini - Alii Parkway intersection. Left-turn <br /> movements in and out of the project to the Parkway would be undesirable because they <br /> tend to create delays in traffic. Converting the access to a right-in, right-out only solves <br /> that problem, but creates a very roundabout traffic pattern if residents want to go to <br /> Kailua-Kona from the project (they must go up to Queen Kaahumanu). <br /> After discussions with the Planning Department and DPW, the applicant <br /> submitted a revised site plan (Exhibit M). This has a secondary access on Kuakini, about <br /> 400 feet south of the Kuakini - Alii Parkway intersection. This would be aright-in, right- <br /> out only. It would also make it easier to coordinate access to the project site during <br /> construction of the Parkway because construction might interfere with the other access. <br /> The revised site plan also includes a potential alternate access to the mauka end of the <br /> property, near Iliana Street in the Hillcrest Subdivision. This could serve as the main <br /> project access in the future, replacing the access closer to Kuakini. This maybe desirable <br /> if the future planning for the Parkway incorporates an intersection with Iliana Street, or to <br /> <br />