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Page 1 of 1 <br /> Joe Reynolds <br /> From: Steve Butterfield [shutter@hawaii.rr.com] <br /> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 6:50 PM <br /> To: 'Joe Reynolds' ~ <br /> Subject: Another Opinion Regarding the 'Clifto' Development <br /> r <br /> (Joe -Please forward this to Fred and the other Councilmen. Thanks -Steve) - <br /> <br /> Joe Reynolds ;.D <br /> Dr. Fred Holschuh <br /> Hawaii County Councilmen <br /> Re: Another Opinion Regarding the Proposed 'Clifto' Development Project <br /> Dear Joe and Fred: <br /> It was a pleasure dining with you Saturday night at the benefit for our County's fire fighters. I just wanted to drop you <br /> <br /> and the other county councilmen a brief note regarding my family's opinion of the proposed 'Clifto' Development. <br /> Unfortunately, I suspect you won't hear too much of this opinion in your Council meeting in Kona this week. <br /> <br /> My family resides in a small subdivision in the Kona 'Palisades' area. Our home overlooks the proposed development <br /> and we currently have almost daily trips into Kailua Kona for shopping and services. While we, as all Kona residents, <br /> <br /> are concerned about the overall traffic situation in Kona, we support the Clifto development project. We believe the <br /> <br /> solution to the traffic problem is more roads (and better utilization of the existing roads). Prohibiting or postponing <br /> <br /> development does nothing to alleviate the current traffic problem and worsens the already bad business environment. <br /> <br /> The Mayor's veto of the Council's approval of the project is an admission that he is not prepared to fight for a better <br /> Kona transportation infrastructure with those in Honolulu who hold the State's purse strings and the vocal minority <br /> <br /> who oppose every development in West Hawaii. <br /> From my family's perspective, the ideal situation is to develop retail services in North Kona, which will eliminate a <br /> significant number of our trips into town, in parallel with the new roads Kona so desperately needs. We believe the <br /> current traffic rhetoric is just another fear tactic from the vocal minority of anti-development activists. The West <br /> Hawaii community needs more roads, but we also need the jobs, services and county tax revenue that development <br /> projects like 'Clifto's' generates. <br /> It is my family's hope that the Council and the Mayor will work to ensure West Hawaii receives the infrastructure <br /> necessary to support the projects that will enhance the quality of life for both Kona and the entire county. I feel the <br /> <br /> current traffic problem is a good example of what happens when the vocal opinion of a few stop the improvements <br /> needed by all. We need you to stand up and do what we all know is right. I can only imagine how tough it must be <br /> listening to the rhetoric of some of our activists. I am writing this to reinforce your knowledge that a majority exists <br /> that needs you to continue to build and improve our community in spit of the outcries of the very vocal minority. You <br /> have a tough job. My wife and I thank you for all your hard work. <br /> <br /> Aloha <br /> Steve & Rosalind Butterfield <br /> 73-1220 Kuakapu St. <br /> Kailua Kona <br /> Cernrn, No. ~ • I , I <br /> Ref. To: W~ <br /> 9/14/2004 Ref. Late CFP-...-- S <br /> <br />