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Page 2 of 3 4.) It will not help to have affordable housing that places an untenable burden on an already bazely functional road infrastructure (not to mention water, schools, police, sewage, etc). This is a false promise and helps no one. 5.) Connector roads must have something to connect to that makes sense. There must be a divided four- lane highway at least from Keauhou all the way to the airport before anything else is even proposed in West Hawaii. Such a highway should be the absolute priority of the Council, and a temporary moratorium should be put in place on all other development and roads until such a highway project is accomplished. I believe that the residents of West Hawaii would strongly support you if you made such a highway the major emergency project on your agenda. Think of our current situation as if a lava flow came down from Hualalai and wiped out Highway 11. You would have bulldozers out the next day to re-open the highway, because you would have no choice. Well, I believe there is currently a lava flow of traffic that now requires the same emergency response. Mahalo, Robert Scazola E-mail #2: Sunday, June 12, 2005 Dear Mayor Kim and Hawaii County Council Members, Re: Comm. 106 Bill 29 & 30; Comm. l07 Bill 31 & 32 Committee on Planning Meeting for Tuesday June 14, 2005 We would love to participate in person at the Planning Meeting in Hilo this Tuesday regarding the Puapua'aiki development, but it is just too far to go. Also, video conferencing isn't available for that meeting. So, we hope that as you read this email, you will hear the deep caring in our voices for the future of our island! We know you live here too and that you care deeply enough to have offered your time and energy to run for office and be elected to serve in our government. We know that you are faced with enormous amounts of detailed information and tremendously hard decisions. Mahalo for your commitment. That said, we passionately want you to make some hard decisions on behalf of us all. We have all lived in places where difficult decisions had to be made, where it was necessary to choose to put a moratorium on development for defined periods of time while infrastructure catches up. The Suffolk project off Kuakini Highway has some good features, most importantly affordable housing and generous help to provide land and some funds for a school. But, the Clifto's development has been postponed for now, and this is a similar situation. Too much traffic, too much crowding, not enough organization of the infrastructure yet in critical areas of population. Regarding Puapua'aiki, the time is not yet right. We really don't need more shopping centers in Kona. And when 6/13/2005