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July I8, Z00-5 <br /> Aloha Council Members; <br /> I,et me start out by apologizing fur resorting to F,-mail to send you my opinions, but 1 fear [hat <br /> will <br /> not properly express all of my concerns at Che second reading for Bills 29 - 32 on Friday. 1 don't <br /> want <br /> to forget anything under the pressures of teleconferencing and time limits, so 1 will bother you <br /> with <br /> a preamble now. 1 feel that Ihis could be a good project, but the district is not ready for it, and <br /> the <br /> proposed mitigation is not nearly sufficient to offset the impacts to our community. In an effort <br /> to <br /> keep this short, 1 will just outline my points of concern, please feel free to call me or E-mail if <br /> you <br /> would like me to elaborate further. <br /> 1. Just to clear up any potential misunderstanding, the Kona Traffic Safety Committee, of <br /> which I am <br /> co-chair, is neither for or against this project. We never voted, although my personal <br /> feeling is that <br /> we are probably slightly more against. We did make some recomendations as a minimum <br /> of <br /> traffic features we felt were needed. 1 am pretty sure that these suggestions were prefaced <br /> with, <br /> " If Approved". <br /> 2. Nlease ask either the Public Works Dept. or the State Dept. of Transportation what effect <br /> the <br /> proposed traffic light will have nn the capacity of the highway at that point If you cannot <br /> get an <br /> answer from either of them, ask anybody in Kailua what the traffic light at the Police <br /> station road <br /> has dune in that area, with Icss side traffic than the project will generate. The now bad <br /> situation <br /> will become worse, by a large percentage. <br /> 3. Government services in nearly all aspects, in nearly all areas of our Island are already over <br /> used <br /> or extended in some way or another. Adding close to 1,500 additional people to the islands <br /> population will not do anything to lighten that load, and I feel that your first responsibility <br /> is to <br /> your current constituencies. <br /> 4. Who is going to check mi the rental rates to insure compliance, at this point 1 am not at all <br /> sure <br /> that we even know who the real owners are. Our county has enough to do without trying to <br /> enforce <br /> more housing regulations for the nett twenty years. I can assure you that a loophole or two <br /> will he <br /> found, that is how people become wealthy enough to build this sort of project, by <br /> manipulating a <br /> system. 1 would challenge any of you to show us examples of a good rent control project. <br /> <br /> Can we <br /> <br />