2015-05-18 South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee Minutes

Home

1 SOUTH KOHALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE 2 aka HUI KULEANA O KOHALA HEMA 3 southkohalaactioncommittee@gmail.com 4 County of Hawai’i 5 MINUTES 6 Meeting Date: May 18, 2015 th 7 Call to order: 5:00 pm 8 Place: Waikoloa Village Association Community Room 9 68 Melia Street, Waikoloa Village, HI 96738 10 Roll Call: 11 1Members present: Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto, Diane Kaneali’i, Joel 12 Cohen, John Mueller, George (Robbie) Robertson, and Roger Harris. 13 2Planning Department: Deanne Bugado, Ali Catalano 14 3Public in attendance: Roland and Nani Sandstrom, Nina Kalckar, Mark 15 Gordon, Stephanie Stearns, Dave Hirt, Sheldon Meier, Mary Wills, 16 Cindy Kester, Warren Lee, and Ruth Smith. 17 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA  18 Roland Sandstrom spoke in regard to the update to the General Plan Item 19 and guidelines for cul de sacs in the county statutes. Regarding the Waikoloa 20 subdivision he explained that he would like to see the west exit road go 21 straight through, and that eventually he would like to see the community 22 recreation center have an access road to Queen Kaahumanu Highway. He also 23 expressed his concern that all future developments should have their own 24 access roads to Waikoloa Road and should not rely on Paniolo Avenue. He 25 also brought up the concern of the test lamps around the villages and that 26 he’d like to see new lamps put in or have skirts put on those lights so they are 27 lighting the street and not the homes.  28 Nina Kalckar, a new resident to the area, spoke in regard to the update to the 29 General Plan Item and brought up some ideas in regards to economic growth. 30 She had some ideas on developing businesses in the area and being able to 31 take advantage of the World Wide Web. She also brought up the possibility of 32 facilitating a relationship with University of Hawaii.  33 Mike Gordon spoke in regard to the update to the General Plan Item and 34 brought up the topic of the community emergency response team and 35 suggested that paved roads be a priority because this area is so prone to 36 wildfires. 37 PRESENTATION 38 1.Warren Lee, Director of the Department of public works, spoke in regard to 39 projects in South Kohala District. He brought up that the funding for roads 40 comes from county funding, fuel tax, and the State Transportation 41 Improvement Program (STIP).  42 The first is repairing the Mamalahoa Highway in Waimea