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Promoting traffic safety for vehicular and pedestrian traffic: facilitating traffic movement
through parking, public access, and assistance to the business and residential
- ~ community; facilitating communication between the public and private sector; and
promoting the positive aspects of roadways, their visual characteristics and beautification.
July 22, 2002
Bobby dean Leithead-Todd
Chair -Committee for Planning
County of Hawaii
25 Aupuni St.
Hilo, Fit 96720
Dear Chairman Leithead-Todd,
Re: Bill No. 232 -The Gomes Family Limited Partnership
The Kona Traffic Safety Committee is concerned about proposed development on land adjacent and north of
Kealoha, Kona Heights and Kailua mew Estates subdivisions. Developers are seeking re-zoning from agriculture-5
acre to asingle-family residential development to be accessed through three subdivisions: Kailua mew Estates (Nani
Kailua Drive), and Kealoha Subdivision (Kawena Street), Kona Heights Subdivision (Weld St., Aloha Kona & Kini
Loop.)
The potential development on the full parcel owned by the partnership ~rarraaats the dedi~ted iss~r~s seed egress
fe°~rn a d~elaspe~eeeat oe~ a major arteraatl rather than through existing neighborhoods, where the streets are
already overburdened, or at least improvements to the neighborhood roadways to accommodate and calm the
additional traffic.
Kona's expansion history is full of inadences where developer's initially sought permits for only a small segment of
their full plan of development keeping projects ~~der the level where impacts kick-in. The community has
suffered greatly as a result of these dodges, whiff obll: us as the Kona Traffic Safety Committee anti you as the
County Council Planning Committee to be espea~ ~€~ifant a~ insure that the full implicati~sns of all
developments are considered, and further to take action to prevent the creation of any more unsafe traffic
situations.
With the passing of a motion at our )uly 23, 2002 meeting, the- Kona Traffic Safety Committee request that you
place conditions of development on the pr®ject or other such action that will properly handle the traffic created
from a full built-out of the land.
Sin I ,
Ann C. Peterson
Chair
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