REP JConPWIRC/FC/PC 007 03/11/2008 2006-2008

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REPORT OF THE FIRST JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING ON PUBLIC WORKS & INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS, FINANCE, AND PLANNING DATE: March 11, 2008 Re: Comm. 997/Bill 235 PLACE: Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort and Spa 78-128 Ehukai Street Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 TIME: 8:27 p.m. Council Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Because this item was one of several items on three committee agendas which were related, Bill 235 was postponed to a Joint Committee Meeting on Planning, Finance, and Public Works and Intergovernmental Relations, which was convened at the end of the scheduled committees for the day. The Chairman of each committee consecutively called the meetings to order and relinquished their respective chairs to Council Chair Pete Hoffmann. Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill 235, reports as follows: Bill 235, transmitted via Communication 997 from Mayor Harry Kim, dated January 29, 2008, presents an amendment to Change of Zone Ordinance No. 96-7 by amending the portion of Condition MA relating to constructing a barricade or breakaway gate that prevents the use of Haleki`i Street as a vehicular thoroughfare prior to the opening of the entire Mamalahoa Bypass. Ordinance No. 96-7 reclassified lands from Unplanned (U) to Agricultural 1-Acre (A-la) at Honuaino 3rd and 4a', Hokukano 1'` and 2°d, Haleki`i, Keekee I" and 2nd, Ilikahi, Kanakau 1" and 2nd, Kalukalu l", 2nd and 3rd, and Onouli 1'`, North and South Kona, Hawaii, covered by Tax Map Key: 7-9-12:4 & 11; 8-1-4:3, 7, 65 & 68; 8-1-27:16, 20, 21, 27-43, 8-1-28:9, 10, 19-28, 30, 44-47; 8-1-30:1-3, 5-9,12-53; 8-1-32:1-54; 8-1-33:1-20; 8-1-34:1-25 (formerly 7-9-12: portion of 3, 4 & 11 and 8-1-4: portion of 3). The provisions of Condition M required the developer to build the Mamalahoa Bypass from Keauhou to Napo`opo`o and extend Haleki`i to connect with it. The purpose of Condition M 4 was to prevent the use of Haleki`i Street as a vehicular thoroughfare between the existing Mamalahoa Highway and a portion of the Mamalahoa Highway Bypass until the entire proposed Mamalahoa Highway Bypass between the vicinity of Keauhou and Captain Cook had been completed and opened for general public use. Completion of physical connection of Haleki`i Street to the Mamalahoa Bypass is expected to be usable by the public in April 2008, however, further extension to Napo`opo`o is uncertain due to resistance of one landowner (Coupe), to the acquisition of property necessary to complete the right-of-way. Director Yuen notes that despite severe traffic congestion on Mamalahoa Highway, the Mamalahoa Bypass (paralleling Mamalahoa Highway from Keauhou to Haleki`i Street), cannot JC-PWIRC, PC, & FC Report No. 7