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DEG- _-97 WED 14 P•~Z 4s - ~ lV illium Ci. Daris Nv One.tm S~ephtn K Yamashln ~ ~ 'aa '~e `i ~ Henry Cho \~o~s Lni>:rzf,~ u~ ~ ~;~tt~it 2i ?.o pu~~ S~rca, Foam 215 ~ H'lo. H~~:G 9`;.-- ~ rFP+j 9G1-8_I1 Fu (BOl) 9616557 KO~'A~ 75-5700 Km41 nl Hiph way, ~u~~: ~ ::II Kowa, H~w~ii 96)x0 (GJ6) 729-51:6 ~ ;;tiJ ADVISORY COiti;~4ITTEE ON BIC~~t_~ D PEDESTRIAN SAFETY December 2, 1997 ri n ~ ~ - , Councilman Curtis Tyler ' County of Hawaii 25 Aupunl Street Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Dear Councilman Tyler, That; you for asking for our opinion or, rice ;;~~=ding resolutions [174-97 and 18~- 97] to sell "road remnants" to adjoining lane ~~-.rs. Our committee has long been on record a~ ~~I ro the routine sale of "old government roads", turd so-called "road rttr~ unless it can he established rrith certainty that such parcels do not hay ~~!ivit)~ ~-ith adjoining "road remnants" that could be used as fuhrre i~nr~~ greenways, or multi-use bikeways and trails Fven thoug}r these p~r, : ! ~ ~c,~ not be in use at present, and even though the County of Hawaii mad ~Ir.~ ~ ~ ,date that it does not have any future plans to use the parcel, wr shoulu ie; atefully to see if these parcels may indeed have potential for future pry,,;: >ss of seemingly insignificant parcels of land may break continuity foe f.~ i a: parks, greenways, of multi- use bikeways and trails. Once lost we carp ~ ~r+n that these public right-of- ways wi71 never be recaptured- Li our opiri ~ slue to the public of such "road remnants" may far exceed any short ter~i ~ ~ .~~,e county, or benefit to the adjoining, land owner, From the information you faced it is song ~ dear as to whether these parcels break continuity, on either side, beyond die- ~ ,_,;1,7cd boundap~. However, this evening ( discussed F:esolutiorr J.74-9"i , - eJ(son, who lives nearby in Kalapana, and ~.vho is a proponent of biG, ~ and public access. He is of the opuzion~, that there is no sig;;ific~~t ,~~.:rr~ ~I~so, our committee should have no objection regarding sale of t1.is ;~cr. tames liw 5 ~ g . O ~ /et, ToiPraxMed-Co~N~~~ Ref. Llate.,~~~.