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Robello, Alfred <br /> From: brian@lorchidea.com <br /> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:17 AM ~~~.eivcs. <br /> To: tedwards@westhawaiitoday.com Jirn...~. <br /> Cc: rflickinger@westhawaiitoday.com <br /> Subject: yesterday's article re. public space conservation OoN <br /> my ('oondl a <br /> dear editor, i am writting from Connecticut, where my wife and i spend 1/2 of the year when we are not on the hamakua <br /> coast. I would like to comment on the defeat of the public space conservation legislation that was highlighted in yesterday's <br /> article in wht. I would like to reference the following web site www.mvlandbank.com, which highlights a different approach <br /> to this issue which was taken by the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. My wife and I purchased a building <br /> there in 2002 to run our orchid business. At the time of the purchase we gladly paid the 2% real estate trandfer public <br /> surcharge which funds the purchase of public lands for conservation purposes. When we sold the property a year later the <br /> new buyer happily paid the transfer fee again. This has been a very succesful conservation program for the island. Given <br /> the pace of realestate transfers on the big island, I believe a similar situation would happen. All stake holders, including the <br /> prosperious r! <br /> <br /> ealestate industry on the island should support such such a conservation effort. <br /> Brian Mackenzie <br /> <br /> Onomea Bay <br /> brian@lorchidea.com <br /> Comm. N~ <br /> Ret. To: <br /> l'sf, is a' . _~5 <br /> 1 <br /> <br />