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COMM.1.11
COUNTY CLERK
COUNT' OF HAWAII
From: Lisa Roach
To: Council Testimony JAN t q
Subject: In support of opening Hwy 132(Bill 10) ���� i§i t
Date: Wednesday,January 02,2019 2:43:34 PM
P/COUNCIL BILL 10/COMM. 47 (1/9/2019 HILO MTG)
The restoration of highway 132 is essential to the residents, farmers and ranchers with land
on or near Hwy132 that was not inundated.These are hardworking, taxpaying citizens with
assets in peril. Cinder truck travel is also hindered by the lack of access causing excessive
noise in residential areas and long circuitous routes. The cell phone tower near PGV needs
maintenance. Please quickly allow limited access with a temporary road over the existing
highway 132 alignment. I mourn the loss of what is no longer. Time however can only go
forward.
It took PGV 1 day to gain access to their plant once the bulldozers were given the green
light:The distance needed to scrape over Hwy 132 is three times that of PGV's distance
cleared. Conceivably, with additional finishing touches perhaps (we're not demanding them,
but they might be needed with cinder truck travel) a 4wd road could be established within 2
weeks of work commencing. FEMA funds released by the legislature could be tapped at a
later date for a permanent road.
Many neighbors have been attempting to maintain their properties that remain after the
uncontrolled brushfire (on July 28, 2018 - burning down many homes and structures that
would have been fine otherwise), be it dwellings, orchards, other improvements or all three,
with considerable inconvenience to their lives. What was once a 5 to 7 minute drive out of
Pahoa is now an extensive journey by foot or air. Imagine your home being there, but you
not being able to live in it because of the lack of road access that makes it impossible to go
to work/school/shopping/post office/appointments etc. We need solutions. We need
access. We need a ROAD. As time passes, properties become more overgrown and
improvements more degraded. I and my neighbors want to be able to go back home and
make needed repairs that can't be done without road access.
HVO has been invited by a number of kipuka residents for siting monitoring equipment to
replace what was lost to the lava or wildfire (or Iselle, in one instance); much of the papaya
land remains and is going feral, but could easily be replanted and put back into production;
fruit and nut orchards in the area need maintenance. There are so many reasons for a
TEMPORARY ROAD ON THE 132 ALIGNMENT to be fast tracked.... There is money and
help available from the PGV relocation fund, the money outlined in Bill 10 etc. Please
release the funds. It is time!
Aloha,
Lisa Roach
14-6984 Hula PI.
Pahoa HI 96778
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Lisa Roach (RS)
Savio Realty, LTD
PO Box 1276
Pahoa, HI
Office: (808) 965-9500
Cell: (808) 494-8575
lisar@savio corn
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