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and energy costs; cost of living; exclusionary vs. inclusionary land use patterns; traffic congestion, traffic safety, and highway costs; accessibility for those without personal autos; number and length of automobile trips required; two-lane "mainstreet and country road" transportation networks vs. "pods" along limited access, multi-lane highways; visual preference surveys; impacts on surrounding communities; protection of agnculture; and actual tax burden. Provide the Ahwahnee Principles as examples of planning principles in use by commumhes which have chosen livability. Provide presentations of plans based on livability, by qualified presenters who favor livability, as well as advocates for sprawl patterns. GP, and the plamm~g of public improvements and zoning, as per III. must then reflect community choices. Why? • The current GP has goals and policies which describe livable communities (convenience, accessibility, protection of agriculture, etc.). But the actual practice within the County and within the State Department of Transportation is to implement auto- dependent sprawl, which ~s more expensive for both the tax base and in cost of living than compact development. The public must be given real choices after comprehensive education about the actual differences. • Sprawl development, which creates singlo-occupancy vehicle commuting requires highway lane additions for which federal funding is not and will not be available. On average, it costs $30,000 in highway improvements for each commuter vehicle added to the highway. That cost will have to be shouldered to a large extent by local taxpayers if we do not make the land use/transportation pattern support alternative access. V. Make an F]ement for ACCESS, both tradiUOnal choices to give people in every community the option of anon-commuter lifestyle. shoreline and mauka access, and for bicycles and pedestrians. Incorporate in this element the detailed shoreline access plan prepared in 1979 by the Planning Department as well as provision for master planning access systems within each distnct and review of all subdivision applications for inclusion of access ways. ~1hy1 • The Department of Public Works and the State Department of Transportation both continually cite the lack of improvements or even consideration of these kinds of access ways on the failure of the County GP to provide for them. • The continuation of Hawaiian cultural practices and values regarding the public trust is one of the most valuable things Hawaii has to offer to the world culture. As such it is also of major economic value to us as a visitor destination. VI. Include geologic hazards -lava flows, earthquakes, subsidence, locally generated tsunami - as an IIement, equal to Drainage. Include measures to lower the risk to health