2004-10-22 TAINALOA - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

Hawaiian Acres side, where is that from the Countys perspective as to what the County will take over, what are the issues there, whats likely to transpire in time, irrespective of this particular application, so that we can look at whats being requested of this Applicant in light of how we can foresee events to go as far as County-control of these roads on that Puna emergency access road. YUEN:I believe the statements in the record of Councilmember Safarik are essentially correct. I skimmed those this morning. The County is planning to take over the length of the Puna emergency access road. Its farther along on the Ainaloa side than on the Hawaiian Acres side. And the net effect of that would be, itll be a County- owned road and maintenance responsibility will fall to the County. It is unlikely that there will be really substantial upgrade or improvement to the road anytime in the near future. There are some budgeting for some upgrades and improvements. It would not be, you know, theres no budgeting to improve it to what one would consider a County- dedicablestandard,asnormallythekindofroadthattheCountywouldacceptasbeing turned over from a private party to the County. GRAHAM:And just a follow-up on that, since we are looking at the existing condition which requires upgrade to County-dedicable standards of Ainaloa Boulevard, having been on Ainaloa Boulevard, you know, six or twelve months ago, it looks like a reasonable road. Could you give us some idea specifically what has to be done to make that County-dedicable that would require the $6 million, or whatever of effort. YUEN:I believe there is something in the record that generally describes this, but as far as -. The road would have to be widened. It has a right-of-way -. I believe the Ainaloa Boulevard would be classified as a collector street. The right-of-way for a collector street would be 60 feet. The right-of-way itself is sufficient. The travel lanes would be, the two travel lanes would be 12 feet wide in a dedicable road. I dont believe the travel lanes are that wide. There would also have to be an improved shoulder and improved, probably, a paved shoulder. Whether, and the further pavement of the drainage swale would depend upon the grade of the road; and Im not sure whether it would be necessary to pave the drainage swale or it could be left in gravel. There would be, it would be a major increase, upgrade on the road. There are also some bumps, there are small hills on the road. Im not sure what, how many of those would have to be fixed or any of them would have to be fixed. I know that theyre not standard. Instead of cutting through, when the road was done instead of cutting through the terrain and making a relatively flat road, you go up these little bumps. And there may be sight distance issues with some of these bumps that prevent you from having adequate sight distance to see cars coming from the intersecting roads. That part Im speculating on, you know, how much thats a concern. But those are the kinds of things that you look at in accepting a County-dedicable road. Theres no question that it would be a substantial improvement from what you have presently. GRAHAM:Thank you for that. I think one reason that I was sort of bringing that up is because where you have two relatively disparate positions -- lets say, the Countys position of a dedicable road which is quite costly to the developer and the 28