Bill Text: HI SR47 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Resolution 47 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: SHPD; Hapa Trail; Restoration Efforts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-10 - (S) Referred to WTL. [SR47 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SR47-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.R. NO.	47
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE RESOLUTION

Requesting assistance for the Koloa Community Hapa Trail Volunteers for the restoration and preservation of the hapa trail in perpetuity.

WHEREAS, state historic properties that are over fifty years old and deemed to be significant, are inventoried and assigned state site numbers, and the Hapa Road on Kauai is one of 180,000 historic properties that have been assigned a site number; and

WHEREAS, the Hapa Road served as the main thoroughfare between the inland community of Koloa and Hanakaape Bay, the third largest seaport in nineteenth century Hawaii, where goods from abroad arrived and from which fresh food, water, stores, sugar, hides, lumber, and produce were exported; and

WHEREAS, in 1972, the Hapa Road landowner petitioned to have the land reclassified from agricultural and open to resort and commercial uses, and the State and county maintained the Hapa Road as a dedicated pedestrian and bike path; and

WHEREAS, Koloa Plantation Days were first celebrated in 1985 to commemorate the historic and economic importance of the sugar industry to the State; and

WHEREAS, since 1985, the Hapa Road Walk has initiated the week-long festivities of the sugar plantation heritage of Koloa and is an integral part of the celebration of the Koloa Plantation Days; and

WHEREAS, in 2008, the Hapa Road was re-designated as the Hapa Trail by the County of Kauai for the purposes of historic preservation; and

WHEREAS, the Koloa Community Hapa Trail Volunteers have established as their goal the preservation and perpetuation of the ancient history of agriculture in the ahupuaa of Koloa and Weliweli, including the Koloa archaeological field system that lies between Haupu Range and the Poipu-Kukuiula coastline which held, until 1975, the richest of all remaining archaeological agricultural sites in the State and the most advanced example of agricultural practices and production in ancient Polynesia; and

WHEREAS, from 2008 to 2010, the Koloa Community Hapa Trail Volunteers have devoted personal time, effort, equipment, and materials to the maintenance of the Hapa Trail; and

WHEREAS, one of the most significant features of the Hapa Trail is the moss rock stonewalls lining 1.2 miles of the length, and which since the designation as a historic site and pedestrian and bike path, has been slowly dismantled and destroyed; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2010, that the State Historic Preservation Division is requested to assist the Koloa Community Hapa Trail Volunteers in their restoration and preservation of the Hapa Trail in perpetuity; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Historic Preservation Division is requested to assist the Koloa Community Hapa Trail Volunteers with their efforts to ensure the restoration and preservation of the 1.2 miles of stonewalls delineating the Hapa Trail and the maintenance of the surface of the Trail; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, the Administrator of the State Historic Preservation Division, and the President of the Koloa Community Hapa Trail Volunteers.