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The Future of our Island <br /> Please close your eyes and imagine Kona after twenty more years of the kind of current <br /> unbridled expansion, with out accompanying infrastructure. <br /> Honorable Council, please understand that just because someone asks to rezone a <br /> conservation district, and build a housing development at the end of a runway populated with <br /> Jumbo jets, does not mean you HAVE to approve it. <br /> You will decide on the path this island will take. <br /> How in the world do you possibly consider QK phase ll with the five years of rebuilding <br /> <br /> traffic PLUS the O'oma Construction traffic to be `good' for the Kona folk? <br /> Now 1 hear Cliff Moms has a survey of Waikoloa folk all saying they want to shop at <br /> <br /> Clifton. Huh? With no plans for any particular store and with Waimea half as faz a distance <br /> <br /> to drive. 1 personally don't think they have thought it through at all. <br /> [ checked the mileages between: Waikoloa and Waimea and Waikoloa and the Kailua <br /> Airport, in the "Big Island Revealed" <br /> Now 1 could not get the EXACT mileage but it is 19 miles from where Waikoloa Road <br /> intersects on to Queen K and 10 miles from Mamalahoa to where 250 intersects 190 in <br /> Waimea according to p43. And as near as 1 can tell, Waikoloa is about half way between QK <br /> and Mamalahoa. <br /> So why would anyone sign a petition to drive twice as far to shop, without any idea of what <br /> shops will be there?? <br /> Why doesn't Cliff Morris build his development in Waikaloa7 There is lots of land available <br /> However, it may just blow-up on him after 50 years of everyone ignoring the problem of <br /> unexploded ordinance from WyL'Il <br /> That is the risk a business takes. Especially when it is involved in speculation. According to <br /> his website, Cliff Morris has no intention of actually building and running anything at <br /> O'oma, all he wants to do is get it rezoned as a Special District, sell it, and move on to his <br /> next speculative development. <br /> He is speculating that you will approve it. That is why he is trying to get O'oma rezoned, <br /> <br /> because the Council and past Mayors were known to approve similar messes, take Lowes, <br /> Home Depot, all along Queen K highway which has created the mess the Kona folks now <br /> live with every day. <br /> But you have to be clear about what you will and will not accept. Business needs a clear, <br /> <br /> unambiguous direction. They will take their clues based on what you do today. <br /> <br />