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COUNTY OF HAWAII
<br />STATE OF HAWAII
<br />RESOLUTION NO. 171 11
<br />A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMPLETE
<br />STREETS POLICY FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII.
<br />WHEREAS, complete streets are roadways designed, constructed, and maintained to
<br />enable safe, efficient, comfortable, and economical mobility and access for all users, including
<br />pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders of all ages and abilities; and
<br />WHEREAS, complete streets policies promote non - motorized travel as alternatives, thus
<br />helping to reduce traffic congestion, greenhouse emissions, and personal transportation costs
<br />incurred by rising fuel prices; and
<br />WHEREAS, complete streets policies help to develop a connected and complete
<br />transportation network that reduce hazards and improve safety for all users, including those
<br />unable to operate a motor vehicle, such as young children, the elderly, and the physically
<br />disabled; and
<br />WHEREAS, according to the National Complete Streets Coalition, as of August 2011,
<br />284 jurisdictions have adopted complete streets policies or made written commitments to do so;
<br />and
<br />WHEREAS, HRS, section 264 -20.5 (2009) requires the State of Hawai`i and Hawai`i
<br />County to adopt a complete streets policy that seeks to reasonably accommodate convenient
<br />access and mobility for all users of the public highways within their respective jurisdictions as
<br />described under HRS, section 264 -1, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, motorists,
<br />and persons of all ages and abilities; and
<br />WHEREAS, HRS, section 264 -20.5 (2009), this complete streets policy shall apply to
<br />new construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of highways, roads, streets, ways, and lanes
<br />located within urban, suburban, and rural areas, if appropriate for the application of complete
<br />streets; and
<br />WHEREAS, HRS, section 264 -20.5 (2009) shall not apply if:
<br />"1. Use of a particular highway, road, street, way, or lane by bicyclists or pedestrians is
<br />prohibited by law, including within interstate highway corridors;
<br />2. The costs would be excessively disproportionate to the need or probable use of the
<br />particular highway, road, street, way, or lane;
<br />3. There exists a sparseness of population, or there exists other available means, or
<br />similar factors indicating an absence of a future need; or
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