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Bonnie Goodell 4 BO&967-7775 ~3l7l01 ~ 1 39 PM =7110 • Boruve GoodeWBorniie Bissen'Sustaznability Comminee to GP DRAF•I.6r Zoning 'March 8, 2001 6 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 traps required, two-lane "maznstreet and country road" transportation networks vs "pods" along limited access, multi-lane highways, visual preference surveys, impacts on surrounding commumues, protection of agnculture, and actual tax burden Provide the Ahwahnee Principles as examples of plamm~g pnnciples in use by communities which have chosen livability Provide presentations of plans based on livability, by qualified presenters who favor livabihty, as well as advocates for sprawl patterns GP, and the plamm~g of public improvements and zoning, as pet III must then reflect commumty choices. W hy~ • The current GP has goals and policies which descnbe livable communities (convenience, accessibihty, protection of agnculttire, etc.). But the actual practice within the County and within the State Depaztment of Transportation is to implement auto-dependent sprawl, which is 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 single-occupancy vehicle commuting requires highway lane additions for which federal funding is not and will not be avazlable. On average, it costs $30,000 to 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/traasportation pattern support alternative access V ti4ake an Element for ACCESS, both traditional choices to give people in every community the option of anon-commuter lifestyle. shoreline and mauka access, and for bicycles and pedestnans Incoipoiate 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 district and review of all subdivision applicataoas for inclusion of access ways a~ny~ • 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 fazlure 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 Hawazi has to offer to the world culture As such it is also of mayor economic value to us as a visitor destmation tZ Include geologic hazards -lava flows, earthquakes, subsidence, locally generated tsunami - as an Element, equal to Drainage. Include measures to lower the risk to health