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<br /> . Bonnie Goodell Plannlnafor8uatalnablllty www.bonniegoodell.com <br /> P.O. Box 6, Volcano MI 987860006 (808) 967.7776 oma~pkn®Intarpao.net <br /> 1/23/01 Testimony against Bill 195, rezoning for a shopping center for W.H. ShtpmBii~~, , _ ~ ~ 1 7 r' <br /> This shopping center >s dependent upaai denying ahoppeis the choice of shopping nearer <br /> Theo homes as by transit, walking or biking. Last November, Matthew Simmons, <br /> president of so investment bank specializing m energy, and advisor to our new President <br /> said "Today we ere in the early days of the most severe energy cnais the world has ever <br /> known. Today's energy cnais >s the equivalent of a Perfect Storm, ...s convergence <br /> of pending shortages m all three forms of energy. oil, natural gas, and electricity This <br /> has never happened before " Mr. Simmons explains that more fossil energy cm be found <br /> only by paying much more for it. He compares our time to 1938, when World War R <br /> was already underway, we just refused to acknowledge it. <br /> Ten years ago, Congress enacted ISTEA, to help us shift to transit, bilre and walking <br /> choicss, andtransit-based land use pattema of compact, walkable, neighborhood retail <br /> Elsewhere, that transformation is proceeding rapidly. Transit use >s nvw growing faster <br /> than auto use m the U.S Ten years ago, Puna community said they wanted transit not <br /> highways. Hawaiian Paradise Park produced a plan for sic civic and commercial <br /> netghbotfiood centers m I~IPP <br /> A small shopping center and en elementary school site in Hawaiian Paradise Park were <br /> turned down m 1993 and 4, even though they would have eliminated many highway inps <br /> Many other small p[olecta have been blacked since In 1993, W H. Shipman had already ~ ? _ <br /> Comm. No. Va_ <br /> ]"tile No. 7'r~ <br /> Ref. To: <br /> Ref. Date ~NIV .G LUU <br /> <br />