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<br /> <br /> <br /> ttos p <br /> <br /> <br /> Harry Kim Christopher I Yuen <br /> Director <br /> tyor <br /> Brad Kurokswa, ASLA <br /> LEED® AP <br /> Deputy Director <br /> (tfo rttg af'tt£traii <br /> PLANNING DEPARTMENT <br /> 101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 • Hilo, Hawaii 96720.3043 <br /> (808) 961-8288 • PAX (808) 961-8742 <br /> <br /> March 30, 2006 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Mr. C. Kimo Alameda, Chairman <br /> And Members of the Planning Commission <br /> 101 Pauahi Street,.Suite 3 <br /> Hilo, HI 96720-3043 <br /> <br /> Dear Mr. Alameda and Members of the Planning Commission: <br /> <br /> Proposed General Plan Amendments <br /> <br /> One of the proposed amendments to the General Plan has aroused a great deal of public <br /> interest: the deletion of a "Course of Action" for Transportation in South Kohala, sec. <br /> 132.5.6.2(g): "To relieve traffic congestion through Waimea town, implement <br /> construction of (a) Parker Ranch's connector road from Kamamalu Street to Mamalahoa <br /> Highway; and (b) the County's extension of this road, between Mamalahoa Highway and <br /> Kawaihae Road in the vicinity of the Waimea solid waste transfer station." <br /> <br /> This "course of action" was new in the 2005 General Plan and grew out of the ordinances <br /> rezoning Parker Ranch land on the south side of the Mamalahoa Highway: Ords. 92-65, <br /> 96-117, and 02-25. These allowed commercial and residential development on Parker's <br /> properties (the "Parker Ranch 2020" plan), and required Parker Ranch to build this lateral <br /> connector road, triggered by phases of their development. The Parker Ranch section of <br /> the connector road would allow traffic to bypass the Lindsey Road/Mamalahoa Highway <br /> intersection bottleneck, as well as allow residents living in Waimea south of Mamalahoa <br /> Highway to get to shopping areas and the public school without using Mamalahoa <br /> Highway. The Planning Department decided that this requirement should be formalized <br /> in the General Plan as well. <br /> Representatives of Parker Ranch met with me and asked that the County consider <br /> alternatives that would still provide a parallel route south of Mamalahoa Highway but <br /> would not necessarily be the "connector road" called for in the ordinances. They pointed <br /> out that the General Plan locked in a specific solution, and that if the County in the end <br /> decided that it wanted the connector road called for in the rezoning ordinances, it could <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Hawal'i County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer. <br />