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Christopher J. Yuen September 20, 2001 Page 2 live, work, and provide for our senior citizens. The increase in senior citizens is well documented and I am trying to start a wellness community, which will continue to grow over the next 15 years, as your parents and some of your committee will have a need fo€~ what I am trying to launch. You asked for additional information, but I am sure you realize how much work is required with both the State and County to obtain all the pem~its and doCUanents and raise the capital to launch aten-year senior citizen project. Iddost of this data has, as yet, not been computed, as it is all about future needs which we are just beginning to visa.~aiflze. I just acquired the land for this wonderful purpose and it was prognpted by a =~Dision. I wonder what the Planning Commission has planned for the next ten years for the health and well-being of our rapidly growing senior citizens in our community. This concern is as much your responsibility as it is mine. Planning means you are in charge of the future, and when you complete this new General Plan, it should be ail about the future not the past and the shackles that ancient zoning places on future planning, which is the heart of anew General Plan. In the next few years, you should have ample time to review all the independent and assisted. living plans for our senior citizens, but if we do not get the zoning now, this exciting, endeavor for seniors will be postponed another ten years and you will become a "do nothing" committee at a time when senior citizens with special living concerns are rapidly increasing. Now is the time for macro planning for the use of this land gradually over the next decade. The micro planning will take pleas later as lots of work is necessary to develop a detailed plan of gradual phases of development to meet the needs of the community. In the meantime, I will plant dracaena cane to keep this land beautiful until the actual plate can be developed for careful expansion over the next decade. If you refuse to take a bold visionary action in designating this zoning, the big loss will be the senior citizens not me, as I plan to develop snot-for-profit facility to meet the requirements of our rapidl~r aging population. ®ur County has failed to address this problem and it will take courage and bold action in the General Plan or once again we will fail to address this problem. The easiest thing for you to do is nothing and you will lose me and someone else will have to take on this massive undertaking. There is an incredible amount of wort€. involved and it all starts with the zoning in our new General Plan. The detailed planning will begin at the lower part of TMK 2-8-13:4, which adjoins the I-Ionomu Village. It will gradually work its way up the hill over tune as the need develops, but this difficult process cannot begin without the zoning in the General Plan, which will trigger all the detailed planning which will also need to be approved by the Planning Commflssflon. Incfldentally, the Planning Commission unanimously approved my office building in 1997 before we had a detailed plan, which now has won several awards and the strong approval of the Kilo community. This senior Citizen facility well create far more jobs in the future and help many more local families. .