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Home My WebLink AboutREP PWPC 087 02/03/1998 1996-1998 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS DATE: February 3, 1998 RE: COMM. NO. 687 /BILL NO. 192 PLACE: Council room TIME: 9:00 a.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Public Works and Parks, to which was refened Communication No. 687, which transmits Bill No. 192, reports as follows: The purpose of Bill No. 192 is to amend Chapter 22, of the Hawaii County Code, Article 1, Division 7, Section 22-31 (Restrictions in Certain Areas) as amended, by prohibiting peddling & soliciting from Old Honokaa-Waipio Road, from its northern end of State Highway (FAS 240) on the Waipio Valley Side of Kukuihaele village to the Waipio Valley Lookout. Communication No. 687.01, transmitted by Richard D. Wurdeman, Corporation Counsel, dated September 12, 1997, clarifies that there is nothing in State law Wat supersedes Section 22-31 (a) of the Hawaii County Code in regazds to prohibiting peddling in certain azeas. Communication No. 687.02, a memorandum from Donna Fay K. Kiyosaki, Chief Engineer, Department of Public Works, dated September 22, 1997, clarifies that the Depardnent of Public Works does not support any form of roadside vending. Communication No. 687.03, a letter from Deputy Police Chief James S. Correa, dated October 22, 1997, informs of the department's concerns regazding vehicle and pedestrian safety being jeopazdized, and opposes peddling at the valley lookout. Your Committee questioned whether or not the vendor was causing the present vehicle and pedestrian congestion, or if it was actually the influx of visitors to Waipio Valley. It was even suggested that other steps, such as eliminating 24-hour pazking, betaken in order to increase the safety of the azea. Your Committee is in accord with the purpose and intent of Bill No. 192, and recommends that it pass first reading. la AYES NOES A&E EX Respectfully submitted YAGONG X CQ~IMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS & PARKS REYNOLDS X CHUNG X ~ ~ ,v,~^~ LEITHEAD-TODD X DOMIIVIC YA i l C IR Y X 87 SANTANGELO X PW&PC O T NO. SMITH x FEB 1 '3 199is ARAKAKI E.O.M X ADOPTED: