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planned their future shopping center end made a deal with the DOE for two new schools, <br /> all at bypass junctions Shipman's planner was also working for Hawaii Dept of <br /> Transportation, which was then planning the bypass HDOT was either completely <br /> ignorant of Shrpman's plane for use of the bypass, or was vwlating federal planamg <br /> requuemenffi for highways <br /> The current population of HPP, based on then house count, is about the same as North <br /> Hilo and Hemakiia combined North Hilo and Hamekua have 105 commercial parcels <br /> HPP has none North Hilo/Hamakua have 27 full-time police officers HPP has none <br /> North Hilo/Hamakua have 69 acres of improved county parka, looked after by fifteen full <br /> time parka staff, HPP has neither staff nor parks. North Hilo/I-lamakua have 21 <br /> firefighters, and four public schools HPP has two firefighters, no schools <br /> 50,000 small landowners in Puna have bcen denied the opportunity to develop a viable <br /> local economy~uat so W.1L Shipman can sell this outof--date auto-dependent mall Puna <br /> drivers are paying for a bypass designed to impoverish them The mirumum wage jobs <br /> in Hilo and at thin shopping center cannot now support the cost of the car needed to get to <br /> them, so people hitchhike, and do without insurance. What about when gea prices keep <br /> going up, and 30,000 people can't even buy groceries, much leas get a job without <br /> driving at least twenty miles For fifty yeazs the economisffi of First Hawairan Bank end <br /> <br /> Bank of Hawaii have card we are disabled by the concenhation of commercial land m the <br /> hinds of a few large landowners in Puna, d is way beyond handicap, to economic <br /> genocide Deny this application, so you can approve hundreds of others <br /> <br />