STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1442

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.R. No. 56

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.R. No. 56 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO CREATE A SECOND ACCESS POINT FROM WHITMORE VILLAGE VIA SAIPAN ROAD TO KAMEHAMEHA HIGHWAY TO ALLEVIATE TRAFFIC ON WHITMORE AVENUE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation to create a second access point from Whitmore Village via Saipan Road to Kamehameha Highway to alleviate traffic on Whitmore Avenue.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that the population of Whitmore Village has increased by almost one thousand residents between 2000 and 2020. Further, Whitmore Village is also the site of the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific and National Security Agency Hawaii, in addition to agricultural lands that are being developed for food production. Despite the increase of economic activity in the area, there is only one ingress and egress from Whitmore Village to Kamehameha Highway, creating traffic congestion within Whitmore Village. This measure requests a multi-jurisdictional approach between state and federal agencies to alleviate traffic congestion in Whitmore Village.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requesting the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific to assist the Department of Transportation with the creation of an access road;

(2) Adding the Commanding Officer of the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific to the list of recipients of certified copies; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 56, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 56, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair