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WHEREAS, due to the May 3rd lava event, Government Beach Road is now the only access for hundreds of households living along Government Beach Road, in the Wa`awa`a Subdivision, on Papaya Farms Road, and in the area known as Noni Farms Road, placing these residents in peril due to inability to evacuate by roadway when the area experiences another extreme weather event; and WHEREAS, due to the impacts of the May 3rd lava event, the Kapoho Cinder Pits continue to be utilized by local trucking businesses providing much needed materials for road building, which results in approximately 50 commercial truck trips daily of thirty-three cubic yard cinder trucks traversing the narrow Government Beach Road, navigating the narrow and privately held Papio Street, and continuing six miles up Kahakai Boulevard to Highway 130, through a residential neighborhood where speed limits are set at 35 miles-per-hour, with no paved shoulders and limited pedestrian walkways, thus creating a nuisance and public safety issue; and WHEREAS, a realignment of the Government Beach Road with Coastal Puna Parkway owned by the Hawaiian Shores Community Association, which has an eighty foot right-of-way, twenty-four feet of asphalt, and well maintained grassy shoulders, is supported by the landowner (Habashi) of the property known as Honolulu Landing and desired by the Hawaiian Shores Community Association, owner of Coastal Puna Parkway which the association would like to dedicate to the County; and WHEREAS,the realignment of the Government Beach Road with Coastal Puna Parkway would resolve the problems of subsidence andinundation by the ocean along the stretch of the road known as Honolulu Landing and provide the County with a road right-of-way extending from Hawaiian Paradise Park to Kapoho; and WHEREAS, the nearly 150 active farms, homes, and agricultural lands in the area of Kapoho referred to as Noni Farms that were not inundated with lava, must now take a lengthy circuitous route along old cane roads, across private properties, down the narrow, windy and hilly section of the Government Beach Road connecting to privately owned Papio Street, and then six miles up Kahakai Boulevard to reach Highway 130 increasing the commute to Pahoa by approximately 30-35 minutes since the lava event; and WHEREAS, there exists an old railroad right-of-way in this area that connects to Kahala Street (Railroad) in Hawaiian Shores Recreational Estates and another section connects to Kehau Boulevard in Nanawale Estates; and 2