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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, maintaining emergency access roads which provide more than one way in and out of a developed area is essential to public safety; and
WHEREAS, unobstructed access for emergency vehicles is necessary to reducing response times which are critical in life saving situations; and
WHEREAS, best practices for emergency preparedness require more than one evacuation route; and
WHEREAS, emergency preparedness, evacuation plans, and traffic mitigation were all mentioned among findings and recommendations of the Lahaina Wildfire Interim Working Group on education; and
WHEREAS, the recent devastating Maui wildfires revealed the importance of evacuation routes featuring more than one point of ingress and egress; and
WHEREAS, Mililani Mauka features only one primary ingress and egress for the community, and is therefore unprepared for emergency response and evacuation; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2024, that the City and County of Honolulu is urged to work with the Department of Transportation and the Department of Transportation Services to plan and implement options for alternative ingress and egress in Mililani Mauka; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the City and County of Honolulu is requested to provide the plans, along with a timeline for completion of an alternative emergency access road in Mililani Mauka, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2024; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Director of the Department of Transportation, and Director of the Department of Transportation Services.
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OFFERED BY: |
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Public Safety; Emergency Planning; Preparedness; Access Roads;