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Kiriu, Connie <br /> From: Doug Perrine [doug@seapics.com] <br /> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:48 AM <br /> To: Kiriu, Connie <br /> Subject: Puaa Development /Suffolk Investment <br /> PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO ALL HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS. MAHALO <br /> Doug Perrine <br /> 76-223 Haoa Street <br /> Kailua-Kona HI 96740 USA <br /> dou seapics.com <br /> +1-808-329-4523 <br /> Dear Council Members: - <br /> Remember the 2004 elections? Mayor Kim was re-elected, and the new council members from <br /> the west side were elected on a tidal wave of enthusiasm for Kim's newly-embraced principle of <br /> concurrency. You saw the overwhelming support for Mayor Kim's veto of the Clifto's project <br /> expressed by citizens of the west side at the public hearing at the King Kam. Now it seems that <br /> this notion that development must wait for the supporting infrastructure has been forgotten. Has <br /> the logic of this idea somehow been lost? <br /> Affordable housing and a new shopping center in Kailua-Kona is not a bad idea. The shopping <br /> center would actually be very convenient for me, since it would reduce my driving distance in the <br /> steadily worsening traffic jam. However it would be extremely irresponsible to approve zoning for <br /> such a development without ironclad restrictions that prevent the developer from even breaking <br /> ground until the necessary infrastructure is in place, by which I mean: <br /> roads <br /> water <br /> sewage treatment <br /> electricity <br /> police <br /> firefighters <br /> schools <br /> Need I point out that the proposed new development is right in the middle of the traffic jam, and <br /> traffic will come to a standstill unless Queen K has 4 lanes from the airport to Honalo before <br /> construction starts? <br /> Need I point out again that the aquifer serving Kailua-Kona is overpumped and suffering saltwater <br /> intrusion that is already endangering the health of some residents? They must not break ground <br /> until a water supply is delivered capable of meeting all the needs of current residents AND the <br /> new development. <br /> How can you even think of permitting new development in K-K until we have sewage treatment <br /> for all the homes already occupied? My waste goes into a hole in the ground, and probably finds <br /> a lava tube right to the ocean where our keiki surf and swim. How about yours? Let's stop fouling <br /> our nest. We need to catch up with what we've already done before we add more problems. The <br /> developer can help install the needed sewage lines if he wants to speed things up. <br /> Electricity still goes out every week. Maybe we should wait for the new generators at Keahole. <br /> You know there are not enough police or firemen for the problems we've got already, and the <br /> schools are bursting at the seams. Should we build affordable housing and tell those people they <br /> <br /> can't have kids? Or the kids can't go to school? <br /> Comm. N~_ 0 6 • ~ <br /> Ref. To: ai° <br /> Rof. L'a!=_ <br /> <br />