3-TALK meeting

Tuesday, April 12th

7:00pm

St. John Lutheran Church (1004 Kailua Road)

District 3’s City Council Member, Ikaika Anderson, will be holding his 3-TALK meeting.  These meetings allow anyone to personally ask questions, comment, voice concerns, etc. to our own City Council Member.  Our community needs to continue to raise questions and concerns to Ikaika about the future development of Kailua!!!

Future 3-talk meetings:

Tuesday, May 17
Waimanalo Public Library (41-1320 Kalanianaole Hwy.)

Tuesday, June 7
Kaneohe Community & Senior Center (45-613 Puohala Street)

Continued Call Out

Please E-mail or call Transportation Director (and related City officials) with a request for the City to complete a comprehensive traffic plan for Kailua prior to any major building permit being issued.  Your e-mail or call should be sooner, rather than later.

Copy from the following text, or refer to the attached information and write your own sentiment.  If you agree Kailua needs a  comprehensive traffic study and plan based on carrying capacities of our streets and intersections, please incorporate the first underlined phase:

As a city taxpayer and resident, I request that the City and County Department of Planning and Permitting defer any major permit for construction in Kailua until a comprehensive traffic study is completed.  The baseline study should be funded by the City’s Department of Transportation Services, and document current volume and projected future traffic volume and its impact upon the Kailua community from: Castle Medical Center to Kalaheo Avenue; from Keolu Drive to downtown Kailua; and from Mokapu Boulevard to downtown Kailua.

Justification:

Kailua town is essentially located on an island created by the marshes, streams and ocean that border Kailua.  One of eight bridges must be crossed to get to Kailua’s town center.  Increased traffic to Kailua from known proposed projects (Target projects 20% increase in traffic to their site; a future 153 unit condominium complex is pending on a neighboring parcel; traffic from the soon to be completed Whole Foods store and retail shops at Kaneohe Ranch’s “Phase III development”; and an anticipated increase of 2,000 military and dependents at Kaneohe Marine Corp Base Hawaii) will not be eased by adding a turn lane or stop light in front of the Target property.  It is incumbent upon our government agencies to conduct the planning function – not only the permitting function. The City has a responsibility to balance community infrastructure and function against private, for-profit enterprise.

INCLUDE YOUR NAME.

E-mail is very effective.  Cut and paste the above (with your name) and send to:

(complete list of email and phone numbers are listed in the "contacts" link on the right)

Wayne Yoshioka: City Transportation Director

wyoshioka@honolulu.gov
Mel Hirayama: Traffic Review Branch
mhirayama@honolulu.gov
David Tanoue: Department of Planning and Permitting (Director)
dtanoue@honolulu.gov
Peter Carlisle: Honolulu Mayor
mayor@honolulu.gov

Copy your elected representatives so they know what issues their constituents care about in Kailua: 

Ikaika Anderson:City Council Member, District 3 (Waimanalo, Kailua, and most of Kane'ohe)
ianderson@honolulu.gov
Please copy ALL councilmembers:  tberg@honolulu.gov ;  emartin@honolulu.gov ;  schang@honolulu.gov ; akobayashi@honolulu.gov ; tgabbard@honolulu.gov ; rcachola@honolulu.gov ; bharimoto@honolulu.gov ; ngarcia@honolulu.gov


Jill Tokuda: 24th Senatorial District (Kane'ohe - including KCAB; Kailua, Enchanted Lake)
sentokuda@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Pono Chong: 49th Representative District (Maunawili, Olomana, Enchanted Lake, Kāne'ohe)
repchong@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Cynthia Thielen: 50th Representative District (Kailua, Kāne'ohe Bay)
repthielen@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Chris Lee: 51st Representative District (Lanikai, Waimānalo)
repclee@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Please pass on to others.   We already live with the repercussions of bad planning in our City and town daily; having more inadequately planned development in Kailua will affect our daily lives.

traffic study event timeline

May 2010 - Target informed residents at community meeting Traffic Study would be submitted over the summer - NEVER HAPPENED

-- Six(6) months later  --

Nov. 20, 2010 - Target rep told community members (at Target's Open House, Kailua Elementary) their Traffic Study had been submitted -- UNTRUE

Dec. 14, 2010 - per DPP, no Traffic Study received yet from Target

Jan. 25, 2011 - per DPP, Traffic Study? - none received yet

Feb. 17, 2011 - still, no Traffic Study

March 15, 2011 - per DPP, a Draft Traffic Study received --  unresolved issues -- Draft returned to Target & their traffic consultant, with request to revise & resubmit

April 1, 2011 - City reviewing Traffic Study which still has traffic issues Target must address -- Target

Kailua Neighborhood Board Meeting

Thursday, April 7th
7:00pm
Kailua District Park (Multi-Purpose Building)
21 S. Kainalu Drive

City Department of Transporation Director, Wayne Yoshioka, WILL ATTEND our upcoming Kailua NB meeting to discuss TRAFFIC  ISSUES  IN  KAILUA!!

Great follow-up opportunity for 'community members' as well as our KNB who have for months now, requested a COMPREHENSIVE Traffic Impact Analysis for ALL of Kailua!  Without one, the stakes are extremely high that Kailua will face irreversible impairment in the future!

Please, we encourage you to attend the Kailua Neighborhood Board meeting and bring your traffic concerns and MORE!

Mahalo!