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FROM May. 16 2006 07:0eAM P2 page 2, Hawaii County Council, Chapter 4. property lines? Those structures were already in existence before this law even came up to be worked on. Existing kernels, enclosures, coops etc. should be grandfathered in and not be touched. In this bill, the number of CATS one can own is not addressed. A lady we know of lives in an apartment type dwelling with 12, yes 12 CATS. The feeding of feral cats should be considered harboring strays and should be dealt with accordingly. We were always raised to believe in America, the land of the free, yet our County Council is trying to limit what we can own on OUR OWN LAND?? We think the County Council's time would be better off dealing with the traffic problems in Waimea and West Hawaii in general, Time spent on Animal Control (Dog Control) bills have been exceedingly high, and the County Council needs to address traflc issues and other items which affect everyone's daily lives. Article 3 only deals with dog licenses. The prices are too high. Keeping dog licenses affordable would encourage people to buy licenses. Making them too expensive discourages license buying. What about cat licenses? Do they get off free again? Almost every day, we see dead cats run over on the road. Why are only dog owners being penalized? We strongly feel that cats need to be kept on their owner's property. Cat owners are irresponsible by letting their animals run loose to be hit by a car. Something needs to be done about the people that harbor stray cats and feed stray cats at parks and other areas. The County Council wants to impose higher licensing fees on dogs, yet all of the County parks have signs "NO DOGS ALLOWED". We buy licenses for our dogs, yet cats can be at County parks without buying licenses. This is not fair. Section 4-8 (a) states that enclosures for farm animals shall not be located within three hundred feet of any property line. Does this apply for agricultural zoned land also? Again, we stress that when we first acquired our property, there were NO restrictions on what kinds of animals we could have, nor how many animals we could have. It is NOT RIGHT for the County Council to keep making new laws to benefit those who have moved into our neighborhoods because they are the only ones who can afford to buy real estate these days. Most of these MALIHM are moving in and trying to change our lifestyle. We have lived here all our lives and just because they don't like something, they want the COUNTY COUNCIL to make laws that are RIGHT for them. Again, we have owned our land before they moved in. Maybe these MALIHINI need to look for areas or subdivisions that have COVENANTS restricting the land owners in that particular subdivision. That way these MALIl-UNI don't have to tell us how to live our lives. They can gn and buy somewhere that suits their needs knowing there are COVENANTS that protect them.