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HAWAI`1 COUNTY COUNCIL'S COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
DATE: March 22, 2001 (Thursday)
TIME 1:30 P. M.
PLACE: King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel
Kailua, Kona, Hawaii
Notice is hereby given that the Council's Committee on Public Works and
Intergovernmental Relations (PW&IRC) will hold a workshop on Bill 225 (Comm. 700)
presently pending in the PW&IR Committee
The purpose of this bill is to make significant changes to Chapter 22, which relates
to streets and sidewalks. In order to make the changes to Chapter 22, this bill
repeals it in total and replaces it in a restructured and reordered format. Some of
the major areas addressed by the bill include: a general prohibition of use of county
streets for profit/private use; modified permit requirements; modernized technical
requirements; and ADA compliance. The bill includes significant changes which
would: prohibit commercial signs and advertising material within a county street;
make it mandatory that homes and businesses be numbered; establish new
driveway requirements for commercial and industrial uses; assign certain
permitting responsibilities to the Chief Engineer (non-commercial uses and banners
across street) and the Planning Detector (street naming); make property owners
responsible for maintenance of driveway approaches and remove responsibility for
sidewalk damage caused by age or poor construction; establish new driveway
requirements for commercial and industrial uses; establish a new section for
variances; and create new penalty and enforcement provisions. The bill contains
significant deletions of certain provisions relating to: permitting installation of
livestock gates across county road and allowing cafe table service and other
commercial activities on sidewalks; prohibited acts on bridges and elevated
structures; peddling; repair of private roads; utility provisions on Federal aid
streets; and mandatory installation of curb, gutter and sidewalk through Council
resolution.
The meeting place is accessible for persons with physical disabilities. Persons who need
special accommodations to attend this workshop should call 961-8245 by March 16,
2001. Persons using TDDs may call 961-8521.
PW&IR -Workshop on Bi (Comm. 700) -2- March 22, 2001
(Copies of this bill are posted and filed at the County Clerk's Office, 25 Aupuni St., Hilo;
the Office of the Mayor, 75-5706 Kuakini Highway, Suite 103, Kailua-Kona; and the
Kona Councilmembers' Office, 77-6399 Nalani St., Suite 104, Kailua-Kona. For further
information, please call Committee Chair Elarionoffs Legislative Assistant Charmaine
Doran at 961-8494.)
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Leningrad Elari~c no Chai ,
Committee on Public Works and
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(Hawaii Tribune Herald: February 28, 2001
(West Hawaii Today: February 28, 2001