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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0173.006 2002-2004 Joe Reynolds From: Thomas F Niblock [tomandbrendaniblock@juno.com] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:45 PM To: konajoe@hawaii.rr.com Subject: Lako St. Barricades Dcar Mr. Reynolds, - Steve Curry and I were unable to stay at the Public Works hearing until the committee voted, so I wondered if you could tell me if the committee actually voted on something? If so, I'd be interested in which members voted yes and no. I talked to Charlotte in your office this morning (Thurs) and she read me what WHT said about the PW hearing. Is the committee placing as one of the conditions of their approval a letter of support from the homeowners' association? Our Kona Vistas board of directors does not meet again until the afternoon of April 15, but I will ask all of the owners who live in the area of Lako and Kinau to sign a letter in support of the barricades. I will direct a copy to you for the upcoming council meeting on April 15. One of the problems associated with getting a letter of support from our Kona Vistas Assn. Board of Directors is that 3 of the 5 board members are officers of Gamrex, and Gregg Kashiwa (being one of the Gamrex officers) is president of the Association. I am concerned that Gamrex appears more interested in its own liability if the barricades are erected than whether the barricades would improve the liveability of the neighborhood. I will still ask the board of directors to direct ? letter to County Council supporting the barricades, but I have no idea what tone the letter will take, if indeed they agree to write one. Gregg is on record as telling us 2 years ago in writing that Gamrex would pick up the litter at the top of Lako once (which they did). Gregg went on to say that Gamrex was not responsibe for rubbish being dumped on County property at the Lako intersection unless the rubbish was being dumped by its own contractors. He suggested the Association deal with the problem, but that left us to deal with the problem on our own. At the PW committee this week, Mr. Holshuh and Mr. Jacobsen urged us to start a neighborhood watch. Dan Malakie actually started one in Kona Vistas many years ago, and his scout troop periodically picked up the trash at the top of Lako, but the neighborhood watch signs were getting torn down, and Dan wasn't getting any support for the problems at the top of Lako. He finally gave up. Two years ago, ahalf--dozen neighbors met at my house with our then-community police officer Stan Haanio to address the Lako St. issue again as a neighborhood watch group. Stan suggested we write down all the license plates of cars we saw parked at the top of the street and he would have the police dept. direct letters to the owners of these cars about parking in a No Parking zone. After we forwarded several dozen license plate numbers to him, we learned that the police dept. refused to send letters to vehicle owners unless the vehicles were involved in a moving violation. Apparently there was only one police secretary at the time who was writing all the letters to vehicle owners for for similar reasons. She was too inundated with license plate numbers from several homeowner associations who were doing the same thing in their own neighborhoods as we were, so we were told no more letters would be going out. So we felt we were left without any recourse for discouraging parking at the top of 1,ako. Stan suggested to our little neighborhood watch group that we do neighborhood group walks with the police along, as a way to send a message to people parking up on Lako that we are united and we are watching what goes on in our neighborhood. That would be a great idea if there were predictable times that cars were parking at the top of Lako. But a planned group presence for the sake of drivers from outside the neighborhood isn't useful in our situation because these cars are coming and going around the clock, they stay for 10 minutes, and do not corn ~t re- f Q1mm. No. Rer. To: JG1~fl~rl aer. na+• APR 7 2003 scheduled times that we are privy to. Currently, Steven Chung Hoon is encouraging us to take down license plate numbers of cars parking in the intersection, and he says he will call the owners personally to tell them the car was seen illegally parked up there in hopes that will discourage them from coming back. We've been told by police not to confront the cars' occupants ourselves because of potential danger (which I agree with), but if we report a car to the police, they can't getup here before the car drives off. Steven Chung- Hoon, our current community police officer, suggests calling the police dispatch about every car we see parked at the top of Lako anyway, just to have it on record that there was a complaint. However, I haven't seen any benefit so far from doing this -the police already know it's an on-going problem. Therefore, continuing to document the problem doesn't seem to have much value, unless you feel the Council would be convinced to take action if they saw a huge list of phone complaints to the police about the problem. Please ]et me know how ]can continue to support this issue. ] will be directing a letter of support for the barricades from Kona Vistas owncrs to the Council before the next meeting. Thank you for your continued support! Sincerely, Brenda Niblock 331-2839 z