REP PWPC 092 07/25/2000 1998-2000

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS DATE: July 25, 2000 RE: COMM. NO. 845/ BILL N0.284 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 9:07 a.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Public Works and Parks, to which was referred Communication No. 845 and attached Bill No. 284, reports as follows: The purpose of Bill No. 284 is to amend Chapter 24, Article 10, Division 1, by increasing the speed limit on Ka`iminani Drive, Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway to Lau`i Street. Bill No. 284 would amend Chapter 24, Article 10, Division I, Section 24-257, Schedule 5 (35 mile per hour limit), subsection (f) Kona, item (3), of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (1995 Edition) is amended to read as follows: [Ka`Imi Nani Streetl Ka`iminani Drive, Oueen Ka`ahumanu Hiehwav to Lau`i Street. Bill No. 284 amends Chapter 24, Article 10, Division 1, Section 24-257, Schedule 5 (35 mile per hour limit), subsection (f) Kona, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (1995 Edition), is amended by adding the following to be appropriately numbered and to read as follows: ~ Ka`iminani Drive, .75 mile east of Lau`i Street to Route 190. Bill No. 284 amends Chapter 24, Article 10, Division 1, Section 24-260, Schedule 8 (45 mile per hour limit), subsection (f) Kona, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (1995 Edition), is further amended by adding the following to be appropriately numbered and to read as follows: ~ Ka`iminani Drive, Lau`i Street to a point .75 mile east. Communication No. 845 is from Council Member J. Curtis Tyler, III, dated July 5, 2000, which transmits Bill No. 284 to the Council for its review and consideration. Mr. Tyler informs Your Committee that a speed study was done by the Department of Public Works Traffic Division, and concurs that an increase in the speed limit on lower Ka`iminani Drive between Lau`i Street and the makai boundary of the Kona Palisades Subdivision is warranted.