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TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION TO CONVENE A HEARING WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND PERMITTING OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO CONSIDER THE LIKELY IMPACTS ON TRAFFIC BY THE PROPOSED TURTLE BAY RESORT EXPANSION AND MITIGATIVE MEASURES THAT MAY BE REQUIRED BY THE EXPANSION.
WHEREAS, the state Department of Transportation's mission is to provide a safe, efficient, accessible, and inter-modal transportation system that ensures the mobility of people and goods and enhances and preserves economic prosperity and the quality of life; and
WHEREAS, Kamehameha Highway, the only regional roadway on the North Shore of Oahu, is a narrow, two-lane roadway that has seen tremendous traffic volume increases in recent years; and
WHEREAS, the Oahu Regional Transportation Plan for the year 2030 includes no significant capacity improvements for this highway within the next 23 years; and
WHEREAS, a traffic study completed in 2005 for the proposed Kawailoa Beach Park estimated a volume of 1,600 vehicles per hour on Saturday afternoons, a time when traffic usually backs up for miles in both directions; and
WHEREAS, Kuilima Resort Company's 2005 Traffic Impact Analysis Report update estimates the expanded Turtle Bay Resort will generate up to 2,054 additional vehicle trips per hour; and
WHEREAS, Kamehameha Highway cannot support the projected increase in vehicular traffic without improvements to provide additional capacity; and
WHEREAS, design, construction, maintenance, and upgrades to the state highway system are the responsibility of the State of Hawaii; and
WHEREAS, emergency vehicles have greater difficulty navigating gridlocked traffic, which could cause significant delays in emergency response and pose serious safety concerns to the residents and visitors of the State of Hawaii; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-fourth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2007, that the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation is requested to convene a hearing to consider the likely traffic impacts of the proposed Turtle Bay Resort expansion and mitigative measures that might be needed as a result of the proposed expansion; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Transportation for the State of Hawaii and the Director of the Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu are requested to participate in the hearing; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if the impacts of the proposed expansion are estimated to bring the highway levels of service and volume-to-capacity ratio outside of national and state highway guidelines:
(1) The Director of Transportation is requested to suggest potential mitigative measures and broad estimates of the costs and timelines involved to implement the mitigative measures; and
(2) The Director of the Department of Planning and Permitting is requested to explain what measures, such as project phasing related to highway capacity expansion, may be required of the developer;
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation, the Governor, the Director of Transportation, the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, the Chair of the Honolulu City Council, and the Director of the Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu.
Turtle Bay Expansion; Traffic Impacts.