2024-12-09 S. Fuke Response to Rich Howarth Email

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From: Sidney Fuke To: richhowarthlCabamail.com Cc: Plannina Internet Mail; Roy.Alex Subject: Kona Hotel,Kona Hawaii Development permit,TMK 7-5-018:011(PL-SMA-2023-000038) Date: Monday,December 9,2024 1:28:02 PM Aloha Rich and Staci, Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us. The responses to your comments are noted in red below, and we trust that they are adequate. If not, please feel free to reach out to me again. Please also note that I am copying the County Planning Department and its staff planner with this email thread so that they become part of the public record. Again, thank you and have a Happy Holiday Season! Sid Fuke From: Rich Howarth <richhowarthlna gmail.com> Sent: Friday, December 6, 2024 10:20 AM To: sidneyfukena gmail.com<sidneyfukena gmail.com> Subject: Kona Hotel, Kona Hawaii Development permit, TMK 7-5-018: 011 (PL-SMA-2023-000038) Hello, We recently received your letter on the proposed hotel. My wife and I own a condo at Hale Kona Kai , 75-5870 Kahaki Road, which is across Kahakai Road from the proposed hotel. We have no issues with building a hotel on that lot but do have questions on the plans. The renderings you recently sent out are not accurate and do not show the most important part of the project- how cars will enter and exit. It appears on the renderings that the parking entrance will be at the back of the hotel on Kahakai Road. We don't see how this is possible. The proposed parking entrance to the project will be from the south side of Kahakai Road and not the east or mauka side of Kahakai Road, fronting Hale Kona Kai. Please see Figure 7 of the attached. - Kahakai Road is a single lane road with no sidewalks and significant pedestrian traffic. Unless that road is widened to two lanes with sidewalks you are going to create a very dangerous situation for pedestrians and a traffic mess. This road is already dangerous because it is a single lane with high pedestrian traffic. The project intends to provide a sidewalk or pedestrian path along the south and east side of Kahakai Road. Because the existing County right of way is a little narrow, the project will have portions of the sidwalk/pedestrian path constructed within its property. This should help improve pedestrian movements in this area. -The point where you show the parking entrance is a small house that is a realtor office. This would prevent you from widening the road on the Hotel side. The west side can't be widened since that is the parking lot for Hale Kona Kai. Will that small house be removed as part of this project? The house will remain. It is not part of this project. Access will not be from that area fronting HKK; instead, as noted earlier, it will be on the north side of Kahakai Road as depicted on the plans (Figure