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<br /> <br /> 7/1/06 WITH ATTACHMENTS: includes correction <br /> of a couple typos in 6/30 email <br /> Margaret Wille <br /> 65-1316 Lihipali Road <br /> Kamuela, Hawaii 96743 <br /> Tel: 808.887.1419 Fax: 808.887.1489 <br /> Email:willemOOl@hawaii.rr.com <br /> John Ray June 30, 2006 <br /> Timothy Johns <br /> Warren Haruki <br /> Trustees, Parker Ranch Foundation Trust <br /> 67-1435 Mamalahoa Highway <br /> Kamuela, Hawaii 96743 <br /> emailed to Trustee John Ray without attachments <br /> mailed with attachments <br /> Re: Town Center Connector Road and related issues <br /> <br /> Dear Parker Ranch Trustees: <br /> <br /> I am writing to you as a concerned resident of Waimea. I know that you have no <br /> legal obligation to respond to this letter. However in the spirit of the Hawaiian system of <br /> dispute resolution, ho`oponopono, I ask that you reevaluate Parker Ranch's recent efforts <br /> to again delay your obligation to construct the Town Center Road. <br /> <br /> In 1992 Richard Smart promised the Waimea community that Parker Ranch <br /> would construct the Town Center Road prior to any commercial or residential <br /> development within its 320 acre Town Center project. Fourteen years later, and despite <br /> substantial commercial and residential development, not one foot of that road has yet to <br /> be built. As is clear to many, the continuing avoidance of this road commitment would <br /> not be happening if Richard Smart were still alive. <br /> <br /> Contrary to the explicit terms of County Ordinance 02-25M(1)(b) and (c), Parker <br /> Ranch and its partner Schuler Homes Ltd. are now requesting to further delay Parker <br /> Ranch's obligation to construct Phases 1 and 3 of the Town Center Road (from <br /> Mamalahoa Highway to Pukalani Road). In fact Parker Ranch appears to be refusing to <br /> construct any of this road in conjunction with its Luala'i III subdivision and planned unit <br /> development. <br /> <br /> The harm caused by Parker Ranch's continuing avoidance of this road <br /> commitment goes beyond the suffering caused by the continued absence of the Town <br /> Center Road itself. The County is now unwilling to construct its Mamalahoa Road to <br /> Kawaihae Road connector road prior to Parker Ranch's construction of the Town Center <br /> Road. Both parties are renigging on their clear obligations to the community. The net <br /> result is that Waimea remains a "one-intersection town". In my opinion, Parker Ranch's <br /> continued refusal to construct its Town Center Road is the primary cause of Waimea's <br /> traffic congestion at the Lindsey Road -Mamalahoa Highway choke point. Or, perhaps, I <br /> should say the County's repeated failure to enforce Parker Ranch's road obligation can be <br /> said to be the primary cause of this traffic crisis. It is time, past time, for Parker Ranch to <br /> complete the Town Center Road from Mamalahoa Highway to Kamamalu Street. <br /> <br /> <br /> 1 <br />