HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-12-09 S. Fuke Response to Rich Howarth Email 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
7). While the project generated vehicle should rarely use that portion of Kahakai Road fronting HKK,
pedestrian improvements will nonetheless be made in that area, except in the area fronting the
small realtor's office, as that property is not owned by the applicant.
Can you please clarify the plans for Kahakai Road?
Thank You,
Rich Howarth & Staci McDaniel