HomeMy WebLinkAboutBIL 036 Draft 01 2010-2012COUNTY OF HAWAII
STATE OF HAWAII
BILL NO. 36
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN, AS
ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE NO. 08 -116 AND AMENDED BY ORDINANCE
NO. 10 -104, RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 4, section 4.5 (Non- Motorized Travel and Scenic Byways),
subsection 4.5.3 (Actions), of the Puna Community Development Plan (as amended), is amended
by amending paragraph (f) to read as follows:
'T Improve Highway 137 (Red Road) as a scenic corridor by:
— Requiring a 15 -foot easement along the frontage of private properties along the
corridor within which native and mature trees of non - invasive species must be
retained, unless they are in poor health due to natural conditions, not due to malicious
acts, and/or pose a threat to public health and safety;
— Preserving Mango, Kamani, and Monkeypod groves and tree tunnels;
— Providing property tax relief to owners who maintain the easement in the manner
intended and State tax credits to those who replant easements with non - invasive plant
material approved by the County;
— Adding interpretive markers and small visitor parking areas at historical sites, such as
the two Kehena sites listed in the General Plan;
— Providing pullouts along the highway at intervals so that travelers can stop to enjoy
the scenery without conflict with traffic in travel lanes;
— Delineating and maintaining physical access to the shoreline at appropriate locations
on the makai side of the road;
— Minimizing tree pruning by using special, shielded cable for overhead utility lines or
by undergrounding sections of the line;
— Minimizing excessive lighting by limiting street lights to major intersections and
informing residents along the corridor about how to reduce illumination of driveways;
— [ Adding a restreem and emer-geney phone below Se-aview before Kehena Beach
Develop at least one scenic turnout near Kehena Beach that includes restroom
facilities and an emergency phone
— Creating a simple walking trail on the lava and new parking area with restrooms on
the State owned accretion land at the new Kaimu Beach;
— Posting warning signs, where appropriate, in newly realigned sections; and
Covering old section of road with cinder soil to allow Naupaka to reclaim the land."
SECTION 2. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. Material to be added is
underscored. In re- printing this ordinance or the Puna Community Development Plan (as
amended), the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, and underscoring need not be included.
SECTION 3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof
to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity does not affect other provisions or
applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or
application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance are to be severable.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.
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