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N . om PI f <br /> Hoot 8, VWo~rw MI 967860008 (808)987-7776 (iax 9867606) a .h~!' <br /> March 8, 2001 ' 1 ITi r~; ~ ~ F TI 8 0 4 <br /> Mayor Harry Kim r;r ,;I <br /> C er Yuen, Planning Director <br /> <br /> James Arakaki Chair, and Members of the County Council <br /> County of Hawau <br /> 25 Aupuni Street <br /> Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br /> RE: Discrimination in County of Hawau General Plan and possible implications for <br /> Shipman rezoning request currently before the County Council <br /> Dear Mr. Kim, Mr. Yuen, Mr. Arakaki, and Members of the County Council, <br /> This is in response to Mr. Yuen's letter of February 16 requesting clarification of my letter <br /> of January 29 regarding discrimination in the General Plan Draft document. It is also to <br /> caution the County administration and Council regarding possible implications of any land <br /> use actions they may take based on the current County General Plan. <br /> This is what is going on, a very condensed history: <br /> In 1996, a group of citizens who were members of the Citiuns Advisory Committee of the <br /> Hawaii Long Range Land Transportation Plan (HLRLTP) formed an ad-hoc committee <br /> called the Sustainability Committee to file civil rights complaints against the State of <br /> Hawaii and the County of Hawaii for using false data in the preparation of the HLRLTP in <br /> order to deny services to the 70,000+ lots rn the small-owner subdivisions. Further, we <br /> asserted, the services were thereby diverted to the future planned developments of <br /> landowners like W.H. Shipman, Kamehameha Schools, Queen Lilruokalani Trust, Waikoloa <br /> Land, the State Housing Finance and Development Corporation, and others. I am the <br /> spokesperson for the Sustainability Committee. <br /> The two HLRLTP mechanisms of tlrrs diversion were: <br /> 1. Projections of no population growth in the small-owner subdivisions after about 1995, <br /> and, in the case of Puna, a drop in population in the subdivisions after 2010. <br /> 2. The representation of the small-owner subdivisions in the computer model, Tr'anPlan, as <br /> they are shown m the County General Plan, as "orchards and extensive agriculture" <br /> rather than as their actual use, which rs residential, large-)ot residential, intensive <br /> <br />