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BonnisGoodell 4609-967-7775 4C 317/01 0141 PM ~9I10 ' Bormre Goodell'Borwe Brsserv5ustarnabilny Committee re GP DRAFT & Zoning >-larch 8, 2001 8 Bonnie Goodell Pl~nnlna for BusGins~billty P.O. Box 6, Voloerno HI 96786-p00d (808) 967-7776 (fax E296) omxpAan®brbrpac.nnt September 16, 1998 Mr Norman Hayashi Planning Deparffient, County of Hawair 25 Aupuni Street Hilo, Hawan 96720 Subject Recap of our Meeting on Wednesday, September 1, reiteratron of need for equal treatment of substandard aubdrvieione. Dear Mr Hayeshr, Thank you and Darren for the spirited drscusaran of the issues regarding the substandard subdivrsions I think this dieouasion helped me to understand some sources of the `buck passing"between government agenoree that perpetuates unequal treatment of these subdrvrsrons As you know, I contend that the planning, servrces and basrc economre ud'rastrvcture that should be going to the subdtvrerons is being duected instead to the future developments of the pohtrcally well-connected large landowners whose market for future subdivisrons rs substantially dependent upon the failure of the older subdtviaions I also contend that the County of Hawaii General Plan has been the prunary vehicle for carrying out this diversion of recognrtron and raourees, whrch I and the reef of the Sustainabrlrty Commrttee contend rs a vrolation of crvrl nghta and envtronmental~ustrce. I appreciate your candrdness about the role of the GP. I have perceived that the GP should comply' wrth HRS Chapter 226, the State Plan, requirements that "County general plans shall be formulated on the basis of sound rationale, data, analyses " It was your contentron at our meeting that the (iP ra gurded by Section 3-6 of the County Charter, to be ".A statement of the most desirable use of land "You interpreted that to direct you as a planner to plan for "what should be"under good planning, rather then condone bad planning Therefore, as you stated, rt ra not the GP's role to show what is in exrstence. rf that represents bad planning, but rather whet ~ "desirable," so that the substandard subdn•rsrons, as `bad planning" should not be condoned by recognIIron in the GP You said that } ou do not know the source of the DOT's data for the Iiawatr Long Range Transportation Plan One of my attachments rs a letter to me from HDOT planner Juha Tsumoto addressing that issue It has been the County's contention, reiterated by you at our meeting, that HDOT, in failing to pronde for transportation services and infrastructure for the substandard subdivisions, incorrectly relied on the County GP, rather than actual land use for then transportation modehng for the HI,RTP I find this confusing. When I was preparing the second draft of the Puna Community Development Plan, et the trine the HLRTP process was beginning, my recommendation that the subdivisions be redesignated