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Home My WebLink About2017-05-14 KCDP Letterto Eoff- CIP Recommendations and Ane K Appropriation FinalHarry Kim Mavor West Hawaii Office 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Hwy County of Hawaii Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 Phone(808)323-4770 Fax (808) 327-3563 PLANNING DEPARTMENT KONA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN gc ACTION COMMITTEE eviuu y 7, 2 n 1 7 Karen Eoff, Councilmember Hawai'i County Council County of Hawai'i Dear Councilmember Eoff: SUBJECT: Kona CDP Action Committee Recommendations for FY 2017 Capital Improvement Program and Budget Michael Yee Director Daryn Arai Deputy Director East Hawai'i Office 101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Phone(808)961-8288 Fax(808)961-8742 In response to your letter to the Kona Community Development Plan Action Committee (AC) dated January 17, 2017 regarding the above -referenced matter, the AC, at its January 18, 2017 meeting, voted to re -send your copy of its letter to the Planning Director dated December 5, 2016 conveying the Committee's recommendations for Capital Improvement Program and Budget items for FY 2017 with its Attachments 1 and 2. Those attachments were inadvertently omitted from your previous copy, and are key to a proper understanding of the Committee's recommendations for future roadway construction projects in the Kona area. The enclosed copy now includes the missing attachments. The AC's letter, as enclosed, recommended three new CIP projects, or program items, to be budgeted for design -only in FY 2017. In addition, the AC's letter expressed the Committee's support for all ongoing and future projects of the County Department of Public Works for the Kona area as listed and presented by the Department of Public Works at a community "forum" meeting earlier in 2016. That DPW project list is copied and included with the subject AC letter as "Attachment 2." Of particular interest is the inclusion of Ane Keohokalole Highway, Phase III in that DPW project list. The Committee's intent is to resolve preliminary and/or final design issues for the new roadways recommended during the course of construction of the DPW's ongoing projects, so that these recommended high priority future roadway projects could be financially undertaken as other programmed projects (Attachment 2 listed items) are being completed. www.cohplanningdept.com Hawaii County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer planni ngAhawai icountygov Councilmember Karen Eoff February 17, 2017 Page 2 Should you have any questions, please contact Keola Childs, Administrative Manager of the Kona CDP Action Committee, of the Planning Department's West Hawai'i office at 323-4770. Sincerely, BARBARA DeFR.ANCO, Chair Kona Community Development Plan Action Committee cc: Michael Yee, Director, Planning Department Frank DeMarco, Director, Department of Public Works Karen Eoff, Councilmember, Hawaii County Council Dru Kanuha, Councilmember, Hawaii County Council Maile David, Councilmember, Hawaii County Council William P. Kenoi Atacor Duane Kanuha Director Bobby Command Depuny Director West Hawaii OlTicc East Hawat i Office 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Hw;• • 101 Pauaht Stan, Suite 3 Katlua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 County of Hawal 1 Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Phone(908)323-4770 Phone(808)961.8288 Fax (808) 327-3563 PLANNING DEPARTMENT Fax (808) 961 8742 KONA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE December 5, 2016 Mr. Duane Kanuha Planning Director County of Hawai'i 101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Reference: The Kona CDP Action Committee voted unanimously to recommend the following Capital Improvement projects, Dear Director Kanuha: At its November 30, 2016 meeting, the Kona CDP Action Committee (Committee) voted unanimously to recommend the following Capital Improvement projects, illustrated on the attached map (Attachment 1), be included in the prospective 2017-2018 Capital Improvement Budget and Program, listed here by order of priority and described further below: 1. Feasibility and Preliminary Design Study: Revised Keauhou-Kahalui Parkway (Ali'i Hwy.) Design, Alignment and Phasing. 2. Feasibility and Preliminary Design Study: Revised Northern Alignment and Terminus of Keauhou-Kahalui Parkway (Ali'i Hwy). 3. Final Design of Kealaka'a St. Extension to Hinalani St. 1. Feasibility and Preliminary Design Study: Revised Keauhou-Kahalui Parkway (Ali i Hwy.) Design, Alignment and Phasing. A new or updated conceptual feasibility and design study, including preliminary design, for construction of the previously proposed Keauhou-Kahalui Parkway (a.k.a. Alii Highway or Alii Bypass) as a two-lane highway, including bicycle and pedestrian travelways, between: (a) Its proposed southern terminus/junction with Alii Drive fronting Keauhou Shopping Center, and (b) A revised, relocated northern terminus/junction with Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway, in accordance with recommendation No. 2 below. The Committee recommends that the feasibility and preliminary design product include the option of constructing this highway in two or more phases according to functionalities of existing and planned "mauka - makaf' connector streets (La'aloa, Lako, Royal Poinciana) with which this proposed highway will inter -connect. Such phasing plan should propose the priority of the respective road construction phases, should phased/segmented construction be deemed necessary. 2. Feasibility and Preliminary Design Study: Revised Northern Alignment and Terminus of Keauhou-Kahalui Parkway (Ali'i Hwy). Although an element of Project Recommendation No. 1 above, the Committee particularly recommends a comprehensive, multi -parcel feasibility and preliminary design analysis to realign the northern portion of the proposed Parkway/Highway, so as to keep the northern section of this highway and its connection with Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway south of the flood plain laying within the ahupua'a of Kahalui and thus to be aligned within or adjacent to the ahupua'a of Puapua'a 191 (See attached map). This realigned, new northern alignment and terminus with Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway is recommended as a means to reduce the overall project development cost by: (i) avoiding the Waiaha flood plain which the current plan requires crossing with multiple bridges/culverts both above and below Kuakini Highway, and (ii) avoiding the need to construct a new, high capacity intersection at Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway within the short intermediate section between its existing intersections with Puapua'anui Street (Pualani Estates subdivision) and Hualalai Road. The Committee recognizes the multiple ownerships of parcels within the proposed realignment area, and the possibility of conflicting roadways plans among such parcels with regard to effecting the desired thoroughfare, and thus wishes to emphasize the need for comprehensive engagement and planning with and among the subject landowners, above and below Kuakini Highway, in order to produce the desired feasibility and preliminary design product. The Committee also acknowledges the pending entitlement status for development of the now vacant and undeveloped parcels that would be transected by the proposed realignment. Consequently, the Committee recommends that this northern section feasibility -design analysis have the highest priority within the undertaking of the above -listed Ali'i Parkway/highway project (Recommendation No. 1). 3. Final Design of Kealaka'a St. Extension to Hinalani St. The Committee is advised that preliminary design and right-of-way acquisition agreements have been completed between the landowners and the County for this southernmost segment of a highly desirable new arterial -collector street to eventually run from Kalaoa (Kona Palisades, Coastview, Wonderview, Highlands and other interstitial subdivisions) to the regional public school complex (Kealakehe elementary, intermediate and high schools). This segment (northern extension of Kealaka'a St. to Hinalani Street) is denoted as Roads segments 9B and 9C on Concurrency Map 43 of the Kona Community Development Plan, and is shown on the attached map. The Committee is further advised that the affected private landowners have conditionally agreed to collectively pay for and/or construct this roadway segment, but that final design of this project has not been undertaken. Accordingly, the Committee recommends that the County fund and develop the final design of this roadway project to facilitate private/public construction as soon as practicable. This recommendation also takes into account the Impending construction of a section of Manawalea Street extending maka/ from Kealaka'a Street to Ane Keohokalole Highway; completing this interconnection between Kealaka'a St. and Ane Keohokalole Highway, in conjunction with completing the extension of Kealaka'a St. to Hinalani St., will provide a significant, highly desirable alternate route between Kailua-Kona and the Kaloko section of Mamalahoa Hwy., above its transition into Palani Road. 17 In making the above three CIP recommendations for project studies and designs, the Committee also recognizes and hereby extends its continuing support for those ongoing CIP projects being undertaken by the Department of Public Works, as they have previously reported and as is listed in Attachment 2 to this letter. 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