REP PWPC 029 04/15/1997 1996-1998

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS DATE: April 15, 1997 RE: COMM. NO. 234 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 9:07 a.m. Chairperson and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Public Works and Parks, to which was referred Communication No. 234 and attached Bill No. 69, reports as follows: The purpose of Bill No. 69 is to establish a freight loading zone area on Banyan Drive in Hilo. Chapter 24, article ] 0, division 6, section 24-288, schedule 36, freight loading zones, provides that "[w]hen signs are erected giving notice thereof, stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle in a freight and loading zone except for unloading or loading of materials is prohibited " on streets included in this schedule. Bill No. 69 would amend subsection (c) South Hilo, of this schedule, by adding the following item to be appropriately numbered and to read as follows: Banvan Drive_ be ig nning at a point one hundred eighty-two feet west of the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel entry driveway and extendinK forty-four feet in the westerly it i n " Communication No. 234 is a letter from Chief Engineer Donna Fay K. Kiyosaki, dated April 4, 1997 that transmits Bill No. 69 to the Council for its consideration. The Communication indicates that the retailers who lease the cabanas fronting the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel are in need of the proposed loading zone to accommodate deliveries. Your Committee at its April 15, 1997 meeting considered Bill No. 69. At the meeting Mr. Thomas Yingues, appeazing for the Big Island Coffee Company, spoke in favor of the Bill. He provided Your Committee with a fact sheet that contained a diagram of the area, a list of businesses located next to the proposed freight loading zone, and a list of concerns. This information was numbered Communication No. 234.01. Mr. Richard Nishimura, Department of Public Works Traffic Division Chief, was also present to answer questions about this bill. In response to concerns expressed about prohibiting pazking in this area at night, Mr. Nishimura clarified that establishing a freight loading zone would prohibit parking in this area between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. every day except Sundays and public holidays. (Section 24-210, Hawaii County Code)