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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Charles Flaherty <br /> <br /> From: Charles Flaherty [oneheart@aloha.net] <br /> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:30 PM <br /> To: 'counciltestimony@oo.hawaii.hi.us' <br /> <br /> Cc: 'Ford, Brenda'; 'Hoffmann, Pete'; 'Donald Ikeda'; 'jjaco@oo.hawaii.hi.us'; 'shiga@co.hawaii.hi.ue; <br /> 'enaeole@co.hawaii.hi.us'; 'KAPILAGO@co.hawaii.hi.us'; 'Dominic Yagong'; <br /> 'jyoshimoto@co.hawaii.hi. us' <br /> Subject: Oppose Bill 235 <br /> Aloha mai Chairman Pilago and members of the Planning Committee, <br /> <br /> 1 am opposed to Bill 235 which would amend Condition M of rezoning Ordinance 96-7. <br /> In 1994, the people of District 7 re elected Keola Childs to the County Council. Mr. Childs, who is now an <br /> employee of the Kim administration, was intimately involved in negotiating Condition M with the community. <br /> <br /> Mr. Childs and then-Mayor Yamashiro repeatedly promised the people living and working around the Haleki'i <br /> Street area that Condition M would prevent their street from becoming a major connector road. The community <br /> believed that Condition M, their contract with the county, would be honored and that they could go on with their <br /> lives without worry. <br /> So these good people were unaware when current Planning Director Chris Yuen quietly slipped a General Plan <br /> amendment through former-Chairman Higa's County Council in 2006. That General Plan amendment designated <br /> Haleki'i Street as a major connector road. That maneuver was the County's first step in breaking its contract with <br /> the community. <br /> Last month, the Planning Commission took the second step towards breaking the contract by recommending <br /> changing Condition M. <br /> Now this Council is being asked by the Kim administration to take the third and final step in breaking the County's <br /> contract with the community. They are trying to entice you and the community with more promises. <br /> <br /> 1 hope you have read Sections 4 and 10 on pages 1, 4-6 of the Addendum to the Hokuli'a settlement agreement <br /> which I e-mailed to you on Monday. It is very important that this Council know that, despite repeated assurances, <br /> Mayor Kim and his administration have broken All but one of the written promises in these sections of <br /> this contract. <br /> Regardless of its intentions, I have learned the hard way that I cannot trust the county administration's promises, <br /> whether they are spoken or written. <br /> Please do not become a part of the administration's legacy of broken trust <br /> <br /> The county administration went forward with the Hokuli'a project, despite a judge's warning. The result was a <br /> $265 million lawsuit which threatened to bankrupt the County. That threat was eliminated when the Hokuli'a <br /> plaintiffs settled our legal action, a legal action that the county lost. <br /> The same judge recently cleared the way for completion of the Bypass Highway. This time, the county won. So <br /> why isn't the administration moving forward to complete the entire Bypass Highway? <br /> The county can post a bond to cover any potential future liability from the Coupe legal action. So there's no <br /> longer any excuse for not completing the entire Bypass Highway. <br /> <br /> Meanwhile, don't break your contract with the community. <br /> <br /> Please do not amend Condition M in Ordinance 96-7 and vote "nea" on Bill 235. p l <br /> Comm. No. l <br /> Ref. To: 08-60A <br /> 2/20/2008 Ref. Date FEB 9. 0 7003 <br />