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<br /> <br /> General Plan amendments - Bill 309 Page 1 of 2 <br /> <br /> <br /> Murashige, Laura <br /> <br /> From: Janice Palma-Glennie [palmtree7@earthlink.net] <br /> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:23 PM <br /> To: county council testimony <br /> <br /> Cc: charlie stanton; mattbinder@earthlink.net; Roberta Brashear; Paul Campbell, Duane erway <br /> sierra club; cory harden; phil barnes; David Kimo Frankel; guy nicholson <br /> Subject: General Plan amendments; - Bill 309 <br /> Importance: High" <br /> C3 n c- <br /> c~ <br /> c • % <br /> N <br /> <br /> CD <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> SIERRA <br /> <br /> -CLUB <br /> fUUNDE0 1892 <br /> Bill 309 - Planning Director Initiated General Plan Amendments <br /> <br /> Aloha, Council Chairman Higa and Council members: <br /> I am testifying on behalf of the Moku Loa Group of the Sierra Club regarding planning director initiated changes <br /> to the recently up-dated General Plan. We are asking that you strike the following LUPAG map sections from <br /> rezoning consideration: <br /> F-2: <br /> This amendment would change the Land Use Designation of almost 100 acres above Kealakekua Bay <br /> from Important Ag lands to Rural. <br /> We oppose this change since it would allow greater development density in agricultural South Kona. It would <br /> allow more "fake farms" where real farming is a way of life. If fake farm subdivisions like Hokulia are <br /> encouraged in this region, real farmers and a true rural atmosphere - and a historic Hawaiian way of life will <br /> be precluded. <br /> Additionally, the price of land increases when luxury subdivisions like Hokulia are built. This drives up the prices <br /> of land formerly affordable to local residents and changes the environment to one which better suits wealthy <br /> Mainlanders. <br /> E-4: <br /> This General Plan amendment would change the critical coastal area around Honokohau Harbor <br /> (proposed for development by Jacoby) from "Open" designation to "Urban Expansion" <br /> • First, no development plan currently exists that r-ecluires this change. Changing this zoning designation <br /> at this time will undercut the publics ability to take part in the land use process at a more logical time in <br /> the future whenfif a plan is actually on the table. <br /> <br /> • Second, it's difficult to understand why the Planning Director would support this major change of zone at <br /> the same time as the administration supports the ongoing CDP process. As Mr. Yuen knows, 80% of <br /> the participants at the last Kona CDP meeting prepared maps that designated the E-4 area to remai <br /> Comm. No. <br /> Ref. To: Plre>`•r- <br /> 3 ZO I <br /> O <br /> 8/23/2006 Ref. Date 2 <br />