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Senate committee clears slate of transportation and culture resolutions, including parking pilot and Pacific arts festival request
Summary
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts passed multiple concurrent resolutions covering golf‑ball prevention measures, Taiwan relations, a Pacific Island arts festival, parking pilots, pedestrian policies, and a Kihei road planning correction to assign responsibilities to Maui Public Works.
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts on Tuesday voted to pass a group of House Concurrent Resolutions covering transportation safety, neighborhood parking, cultural promotion and intergovernmental relations.
Resolutions adopted included HCR 71 (requesting Ko Olina Golf Club coordinate with DOT to prevent golf balls from reaching Farrington Highway), HCR 119 (endorsing Taiwan’s international participation and supporting a U.S.–Taiwan bilateral trade agreement, passed with technical amendments), HCR 163 (urging the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to establish an annual Pacific Island culture and arts festival), and a set of local transportation items including HCR 123 (restricted parking zone pilot), HCR 57 (traffic mitigation and calming study for Paiwa Street in Waipahu), HCR 112 (urging a pedestrian‑first policy for Honolulu), HCR 177 (encouraging a Summer Streets pilot program), and HCR 203 (requesting Maui County prioritize planning for the Kihei North‑South Collector Road with a committee amendment to assign responsibilities to the Maui County Public Works Department rather than the Planning Department).
Several measures drew on written testimony. Tim Ritu, an economic development specialist with the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, said DBEDT stood on its written testimony in support of HCR 119. Kamal Kani Punea, identified as Quiet and Public Places program director with the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and museum director, testified that the foundation supports HCR 163 “contingent on available funding and staff resources” and said the foundation would be willing to host an annual festival if resources allow.
On HCR 71, a constituent thanked Ko Olina Golf Club for working with legislative offices to address incidents of golf balls striking vehicles on Farrington Highway. The committee adopted HCR 71 as recommended.
HCR 123, which requests that the Department of Transportation Services for the City and County of Honolulu implement a restricted parking zone pilot in several neighborhoods, passed with technical amendments. Several community speakers and organizations submitted written support for other neighborhood street safety items; Earl Ingram Jr., a University of Hawaiʻi student, and Angela Melody Young, a Kapalama neighborhood safety coordinator, testified in support of pedestrian‑first planning during the committee’s combined session.
HCR 203 was amended during the committee’s deliberations to replace references to the Maui County Planning Department with the Maui County Public Works Department and to assign follow‑up responsibilities to the public works director. The committee adopted that amendment and passed the resolution.
All measures on the agenda were adopted by the committee and will proceed to the next step in the legislative process.
