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<br /> Bonnie Gpodsll 4 a0a-967-7775 ~3I7I01 Cvt 32 PM 2110 <br /> 80111118 C3OOdell www.bonni~ooodoll.cam Plainnin8 for Sustt+inabflity <br /> Box 6, Volerano HI 96786-0006 (806) 967-7776 (hix 966-7606) omawphn®Inbrpac.n~t <br /> yfarch 8. 2001 <br /> Mayor Harrv Ktm <br /> Chnstopher Yuen, Planmag Director <br /> James Arakaki, Chair, and'~4embers of the County Council <br /> County of Hawau <br /> 25 Aupum Street <br /> I-ltlo, Hawau 96720 <br /> RE. Discnmination in County of Hawau General Plan and possible implications for <br /> Shipman rezoning request curnntly before the County Council <br /> Dear fir Ktm, Vfr Yuen, fir Arakakt, and IVfembers of the County Council, <br /> Thu is in response to'.vlr Yuen's letter of February 16 requesting clanfication of my letter <br /> of January 29 regazding discnmination in the General Plan Draft document It is also to <br /> caution the County adminutraUon and Council regarding possible implicaUoas of any land <br /> use actions they may take based oa the current County General Plan <br /> This is what is going on, a very condensed history• <br /> In 1998, a group of citizens who were members of the CrUZens Advtsory Committee of the <br /> Hawau Long Range Land Transportation Plan (FIIRI_TP) formed an ad-hoc committee <br /> called the Sustainability Committee to file civil rights complaints against the State of <br /> Hawau and the County of Hawaii for ruing false data rn the preparation of the HLRLTP in <br /> order to deny services to the 70,000+ lots in the small-owner subdivrsions. Further, we <br /> asserted, the sen~ices were thereby diverted to the future planned developments of <br /> landowners like W.H Shipman, Kamehameha Schools, Queen Ltltuokalam Trust, Waikoloa <br /> Land, the State Housing Finance and Development Corporatron, and others I am the <br /> spokesperson for the Sustainabtliry Committee <br /> The two HLRLTP mechanisms of this diversion were <br /> 1 Projections of no population growth in the small-owner subdn tstons after about 1995, <br /> and, to the case of Puna, a drop in population in the subdivisions after 2010. <br /> 2. The representation of the small-owner subdivrsions in the computer model, TnuiPlan as <br /> they aze shown in the County General Plan, as "orchards and extensive agnculture" <br /> rather than as their actual use, which is restdenual, lazge-lot residential, intensive <br /> Comm. No. Z • 51 <br /> File No. <br /> Pr~s~nr~o <br /> Ref. To: <br /> Ref. Da~° MA 7 20(]~ <br /> <br />