HomeMy WebLinkAboutREP PWPC 029 04/15/1997 1996-1998 REPORT OF THE
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS
DATE: April 15, 1997 RE: COMM. NO. 234
PLACE: Councilroom
TIME: 9:07 a.m.
Chairperson and Members
Hawaii County Council
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Your Committee on Public Works and Parks, to which was referred Communication No. 234
and attached Bill No. 69, reports as follows:
The purpose of Bill No. 69 is to establish a freight loading zone area on Banyan Drive in Hilo.
Chapter 24, article ] 0, division 6, section 24-288, schedule 36, freight loading zones, provides
that "[w]hen signs are erected giving notice thereof, stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle in a
freight and loading zone except for unloading or loading of materials is prohibited " on
streets included in this schedule. Bill No. 69 would amend subsection (c) South Hilo, of this
schedule, by adding the following item to be appropriately numbered and to read as follows:
Banvan Drive_ be ig nning at a point one hundred eighty-two feet west of the Hilo
Hawaiian Hotel entry driveway and extendinK forty-four feet in the westerly
it i n "
Communication No. 234 is a letter from Chief Engineer Donna Fay K. Kiyosaki, dated
April 4, 1997 that transmits Bill No. 69 to the Council for its consideration. The
Communication indicates that the retailers who lease the cabanas fronting the Hilo Hawaiian
Hotel are in need of the proposed loading zone to accommodate deliveries.
Your Committee at its April 15, 1997 meeting considered Bill No. 69. At the meeting
Mr. Thomas Yingues, appeazing for the Big Island Coffee Company, spoke in favor of the Bill.
He provided Your Committee with a fact sheet that contained a diagram of the area, a list of
businesses located next to the proposed freight loading zone, and a list of concerns. This
information was numbered Communication No. 234.01.
Mr. Richard Nishimura, Department of Public Works Traffic Division Chief, was also present to
answer questions about this bill. In response to concerns expressed about prohibiting pazking in
this area at night, Mr. Nishimura clarified that establishing a freight loading zone would prohibit
parking in this area between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. every day except Sundays and public
holidays. (Section 24-210, Hawaii County Code)
Public Works and Parks Committee Report
Comm. No. 234
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No testimony opposing this Bill was offered.
Your Committee is in accord with the purpose and intent of Bill No. 69 and recommends that it
pass first reading.
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