HomeMy WebLinkAboutCommunication Number 2017-14 South Kohala CDP Action Committee Letter to Planning Director SignedHarry Kim
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Michael Yee
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SOUTH KOHALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION
COMMITTEE
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November 27, 2017
Michael Yee, Director
Planning Department
County of Hawaii
Dear Director Yee:
SUBJECT: South Kohala CDP Action Committee recommendations for
FY 2018-2019 Capital Improvement Program and Budget:
• Second Arterial Access Road for Waikoloa Village
• Emergency Shelter in Kawaihae area (Honokoa, a DHHL community)
• Puako Community Wastewater Treatment System
At its November 27, 2017 meeting, the South Kohala CDP (SKCDP) Action Committee
voted to request that the Mayor and the County Council: (i) appropriate and allot funds to
undertake the first two of the following capital improvement projects in South Kohala, and
(ii) establish a community facilities financing district to fund a portion of the third project,
these projects being priorities of the SKCDP as noted:
1. Second Arterial Access Road for Waikoloa Village. An appropriation of $ 1,000,000
for feasibility and corridor selection studies and preliminary design of a second arterial
capacity access road in and out of Waikoloa Village (similar to the standard of Paniolo
Avenue). This road will serve the dual functions of alternate emergency access into and
out of the ever-growing Waikoloa Community, for the safety of its residents and access
by emergency responders, and also to provide coastal community residents with
improved access to Waikoloa emergency shelter facilities in times of coastal
emergencies or lowland wildfires. See SKCDP "General Policy 2: Provide for the
transportation and circulation needs of the SK community..." and "Sub -Policy 4.1: The
County shall develop plans and programs for emergency routes so that people can safely
move away from life-threatening natural hazards."
2. Emergency Shelter in Honokoa (f.k.a. Kailapa, a DHHL Community). An
appropriation of $1,000,000 for a grant or direct construction cost-sharing with the
Kailapa Community Association (KCA) for the design and construction of publicly
accessible, privately managed emergency shelter on DHHL land leased to the KCA.
KCA will provide substantial project funding through other funding sources benefiting
the KCA. This facility, if made public through County participation and operating
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agreement, would provide the only public emergency shelter in coastal South Kohala
without operation expense to the County of Hawaii. See SKCDP "General Policy
No. 4: Develop programs and standards that will protect the SK community from
natural hazards..." and "Sub -policy 4.3: Government agencies should consider
providing more emergency shelter facilities in South Kohala."
The SKCDP Action Committee finds that infrastructure and facilities to meet public
needs for emergency services, evacuation and shelter are of paramount importance in
both coastal and mid -slope urbanized and growing communities in South Kohala. The
Action Committee recommends that infrastructure and facilities should be aligned and
located in a manner than allows community inter -connections to the extent feasible to
ensure that the individual communities can provide some degree of emergency support
for each other. In particular, the requested second arterial route in and out of Waikoloa
Village should be aligned to support this objective, as should the siting and provision of
a lowland public emergency shelter, such as is recommended to be sited at Honokoa, in
the Kawaihae vicinity, in cooperation with DHHL.
3. Puako Community Wastewater Treatment System — Community Facilities
Financing District
The Action Committee asks that the County support the request of the Puako
Community Association for establishment of a Community Facilities Financing District,
pursuant to Chapter 32 of the Hawaii County Code, for County -sponsored landowner
financing of a $5,000,000 share of the estimated $15,000,000 cost of a wastewater
treatment system needed to replace existing cesspools and septic tank/leach field
systems in that coastal area. The Action Committee finds the cessation of residential
wastewater pollution of the nearshore aquatic environment fronting the Puako
community to be of great importance and a high priority within the South Kohala
planning area. See SKCDP Chapter 7, Puako Community Plan, Policy 3, Strategy 3.1
"...possible construction of a sewer system for the Puako community," and Chapter
section 7.3.2 Action Program Improving Marine Water Quality, Strategy 2.1
"Construct a wastewater treatment system for the Puako Beach Lots."
Should you have any questions regarding these requests, please contact Keola Childs, your
South Kohala CDP Planner.
Sincerely,
"OHN MUELLER, Chair
South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee
cc: Herbert M. "Tim" Richards, III , Councilmember, District 9
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