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COMMUNICATION FOR BILL 209 MAY 19~R 2004 COUN ~ ~ ~
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May 10, 2004
TO: Mr. James Arakaki -County Council Chair
RE: Bi11209
Lehua Lani LLC, TMK 7-5-20:71 & 72
10.0 acres (A-5a) to (RS-7.5)
Dear Council Members,
I continue to not be In favor of Bill 209 and the Lehua Lanl LLC project.
Aside from heavy vehicular traffic, Alii Drive is "choke" full of pedestrian and bicycle
traffic. Bicycles must share the narrow shoulder with pedestrians, which make for a
very hazardous situation when vehicles are a part of this mess. Yet, the majority of
you have irresponsibly allowed this applicant to "GET AWAY W ITH IT" by not
requiring'nim to address pedestrian and bicycle safety in his Traffic Study.
How comet
Plus the majority of you keep ignoring the fact that when you approve more and
more multi-family units along Alii Drive, you are adding more and more pedestrians
to its shoulders and more of them want to cross the street in order to get to the
beach. Yet, you don't provide a crosswalk but rather widen the street to 3 lanes
instead to make it even more difficult and dangerous for pedestrians to get across.
Thanks a lot for being so ignorant to pedestrian safety.
One solution that you should seriously consider is requiring that the applicant do
right turns in and out of their property ONLY. That is just one solution that would help
with pedestrian and bicycle safety. There are other solutions, but you have
basically screwed up on all of the condos that you have approved already thanks
to your lousy and inept planning techniques. I am very disappointed with the way
in which the majority of you have voted on this project at the first reading.
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