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COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />STATE OF HAWAII <br />BILL NO. <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br />Exhibit 2 <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN, AS <br />ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE NO. 08-116 AND AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 10- <br />104, RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <br />SECTION 1. Chapter 4, section 4.5 (Non- Motorized Travel and Scenic Byways), <br />subsection 4.5.3 (Actions), of the Puna Community Development Plan (as amended), is amended <br />by amending paragraph (f) to read as follows: <br />'T Improve Highway 137 (Red Road) as a scenic corridor by: <br />— Requiring a 15 -foot easement along the frontage of private properties along the <br />corridor within which native and mature trees of non - invasive species must be <br />retained, unless they are in poor health due to natural conditions, not due to malicious <br />acts, and /or pose a threat to public health and safety; <br />— Preserving Mango, Kamani, and Monkeypod groves and tree tunnels; <br />— Providing property tax relief to owners who maintain the easement in the manner <br />intended and State tax credits to those who replant easements with non - invasive plant <br />material approved by the County; <br />— Adding interpretive markers and small visitor parking areas at historical sites, such as <br />the two Kehena sites listed in the General Plan; <br />— Providing pullouts along the highway at intervals so that travelers can stop to enjoy <br />the scenery without conflict with traffic in travel lanes; <br />— Delineating and maintaining physical access to the shoreline at appropriate locations <br />on the makai side of the road; <br />— Minimizing tree pruning by using special, shielded cable for overhead utility lines or <br />by undergrounding sections of the line; <br />— Minimizing excessive lighting by limiting street lights to major intersections and <br />informing residents along the corridor about how to reduce illumination of driveways; <br />— [Adding a restroom and emergeney phone below Sea-view before Kehena Bear. ] <br />Develop at least one scenic turnout near Kehena Beach that includes restroom <br />facilities and an emergency phone <br />— Creating a simple walking trail on the lava and new parking area with restrooms on <br />the State owned accretion land at the new Kaimu Beach; <br />— Posting warning signs, where appropriate, in newly realigned sections; and <br />— Covering old section of road with cinder soil to allow Naupaka to reclaim the land." <br />6 ''_ <br />