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Appendix C
Kona Heritage Corridor Inventory of possible sites
• Palani junction and Mamalahoa highway site: an 1850 Greenwell property site
(present day commercial nursery)
• old Honokohau school site (now Mokua Lani school) RECfJVED
• Onizuka Store (now abandoned) 1l,ne_~__-__,----. gy-,--_------_---_-_„
• Komo Store
• Murata's dress shop County Council
• 1914 tofu shop and factory (Tomoe's house)
• First Japanese language school (now Imin County community center)
• Hakoda's general store: back side was Dr. Seymour's old office
• Sakata Blacksmith (now Dr. Toyama's office)
• Ueda House (now coffee place) with separate bath house and out house
• Capt Cook Coffee Service Station (now Ferrari coffee place)
• 1926 Kona Hotel (now Kona Hotel)
• Hayashi House
• Old Theater (now Door of Faith Church)
• Angst Garage (Kona Art Center)
• Old Post Office (Sam Rosen's place)
• Gouveia Butcher Shop
• Holualoa Catholic Church
• Telephone Exchange (Angst owner)
• Dentist house and office
• Cemetery
• old Thurston House (small, yellow house)
• Kimura's House (Iauhala shop at Hualalai connector road intersection)
• Doris Place (general store)
• new bridges (upland flooding)
• UCC Hawaii coffee
• red church mauka -old congregational style
• Donkey Mill (la coffee coop in 1953)
• County Base Yard
• Hl l juncture at keauhou
• breadfruit tree line: mauka of this line was taro; makai was breadfruit
• old Keauhou School
• old Post Office
• Kalelei St. connector to H 11
• old poi shop (mauka)
• Chinese cemetery (mauka)
• Keauhou Store (sells everything and even fixes bicycles)
• Kato Dairy
• Transfer Station
• Sugai Coffee
• Highway 180 joins H11 at Daifukuji Temple (early Buddhist temple)
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enhance pre-designated sites, stops, and scenic pull overs along the way. Improvement in
traffic design and flow as well as parking to accommodate safety needs as well as visitor
convenience is needed at the village center c on roads with narrow or no shoulders with
no parallel pathways or signage. Rest stops or small parking areas need to be developed
as it relates to historic sites and places, or town improvements around the genera] store,
the Post Office, and the Hayashi house that are integrated into a predetermined overall
design theme for the center of Holualoa town.
Highway 180 is a county road, and the County Department of Public Works' mission is
road maintenance and repair. It is not chazged with design and execution of
improvements to vehicular movement in safer and more convenient patterns for drivers
and residents in the Holualoa area. A major design project will be required involving a
partnership with the County in developing specially designed road improvements
integrating historic features, signage and visitor information stops and pull overs as part
of the roadwork program. There is need for both state and county cooperation in
developing a small regional roadway plan such as this since much more is involved than
the usual and customary road repair and maintenance, and more sources of funding can
be tapped into under a partnership within a special improvement district framework, a
heritage preservation district guideline, or scenic byways initiative. Federal funding will
be needed (see Appendix re ISTEA and TEA21)
Holualoa Preservation Guidelines Establish historic preservation guidelines will
help Holualoa better define what kind of future changes will be enhance or take away
from what is already there in terms of its local history, presently standing historic
structures, and other heritage sites and places. Building on the University of Hawaii
School of Architecture data base of significant, historic structures, historic preservation
guidelines can be developed in terms of types of permitted azchitectural styles and
designs within the historic framework of the village area.
This study should also include the pros and cons of imposing a special design district for
purposes of imposing certain zoning and building code restrictions and/or variances to
address proposed uses that could be in keeping with what the community has determined
to be the preferred character and identity of the area. This would allow certain kinds of
local and state tax incentives to sustain a preferred design feature or theme for the area,
and qualify for possible federal tax credits. There are federal taz credits equal to 20% of
the cost of rehabilitating a historic structure or non historic structure built before 1936. In
most cases, "certification" is required, i.e., listed on the national register of Historic
Places and or state or local government historic register.
Holualoa Interoretive Plan. There is need to continue the collection and
compilation of historic information regarding the different aspects of Holualoa town, and
to document this information in a source publication which can be used in the future for
subsequent research, development of interpretative signage, flyers and brochures, and
other follow up publications for the marketing of Holualoa.
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Part of this includes discussions by Pulama Ia Kona with the Hayashi family of Holualoa
regarding the possible establishment of a small visitor information center and mini-
museum in a small section of the Hayashi House. Welcome centers under federal TEA-
21 funding category Report Language: to be eligible the tourist or welcome center
(whether new facility or existing facility) does not have to be on a designated scenic or
historic byway, but there must be a clear link to scenic or historic sites (FHWA) It would
serve as a stopping point for visitors with restroom facilities and secondary map
information, specific information about the Hayashi family and the Hayashi house
through exhibits, momentos and publications, and other sales items such as local crafts
and products. Information could be obtained regarding other features of interest in the
area, including local sites such as places to see remnants of the Kona Field System.
Holualoa Beautification Plan. One of the recommendations of the 1958 "Kona
History, Historical Site and the Kona Way of Life" study was the idea of retaining the
twisting alignments of minor roads and planting with local species. A beautification plan
for the proposed 5 mile length would accomplish this. The Kona Outdoor Circle at one
time had proposed beautification plans for this area and should be encouraged to pursue
such plans in conjunction with the road improvement and interpretive plan. All efforts
intertwine in determining distinctive heritage sites along a specific stretch of highway,
which will also integrate beautification features (littler clearing, planting screens,
setbacks, etc.) with specific road improvements to enhance these sites and features.
Iona Regjgnal Heritage Corridor The 1983 Kona Regional Plan recommended that
further detailed planning of each area would be needed to identify the specific
infrastructural and development needs of the azea, the phasing between and among
infrastructure and land development, and the desired character of the resultant
development. Such detailed planning will form the basis for coordinating public and
private investment.
In keeping with this suggestion, it is difficult to make any specific recommendation
regarding the "next steps" for the development of the overall Kona Heritage Corridor,. It
is something that will need to be pursued by individual areas in their own planning for
specific infrastructural and development needs of its area, and the desired character it
would like to sustain or achieve for itself. The usual next step is the development of a
corridor "management plan", or a heritage corridor "strategic plan"> as was developed by
and for each individual community in the Hamakua region.
However, to even begin to develop a "corridor management plan" would require the
support and consensus of the communities of interest, business associations, historical
and educational groups, etc. up and down the 33 mile stretch of the proposed Kona
Heritage Corridor. However, in the meantime, other possible courses of action can be
pursued. Each of these, however, again requires a lead organization willing to organize
and solicit input and determine level of interest among the different groups involved and
affected.
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Some immediate or neaz term suggestions include the development of a drive guide
which identifies or combines existing varieties of brochures and drive guides (Kona
Coffee Drive Guide, e.g., into a singulaz one which primarily maps the different historic
sites and merchant businesses along the proposed upper highway corridor from
Puuwaawaa to Hookena. It would require an organization such as Pulama to conduct a
survey of business interest and solicit contributions toward the development of such a
guide if an interest is there. If the interest in not there, it is not worth pursuing.
However, the Kona Historical Society's publication on which the 33 mile corridor length
is based, in itself could be converted to a convenient drive-guide that would incorporate
some of the business centers along the way.
Other options could also be pursued, whether collectively or individually on a community
by community basis. These courses of action are good [o keep in mind in the
consideration of infrastructural planning and design on a community by community basis
along this proposed length of highway.
• Consider application for national and/or All American Byway designation
• Consider application for state and federal historic register for certain corridor
landmarks
• Support continued Ag 1 - 5 acre zoning, and maintaining current medium density
Zones village areas along the 33 mile highway length, and ensure the growth rates
and directions suggested in the 1983 Kona Regional Plan.
• Support the continuation of other recommendations of the 1983 Kona Regional
Plan.
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