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Re: Bill number 215 <br />Aloha, Chairman Yoshimoto!!! <br />Aloha, Council Members!!! <br />Regards <br />tr uan t a trway, P sident <br />Plan to Protect Kona <br />PLAN TO PROTECT KONA <br />74- 5602 -A Alapa Street <br />Suite 725 <br />Kailua -Kona, HI 96740 <br />May, 4, 2010 <br />Councilman Pete Hoffman has introduced Bill number 215 to the County <br />Council. If passed by the Council majority, the Bill would put into place a <br />Concurrency Program for the County of Hawaii. Concurrency is an <br />infrastructure finance policy implemented by communities across the <br />country designed to match public facilities with private development. <br />Concurrency requires developers to pay for infrastructure needed to <br />serve new urban land development. <br />Planning Director, Ms. Leithead -Todd, argues against concurrency saying <br />the County policy of fair share will deal with infrastructure inadequacy, <br />however, developers have a history of turning fair share into unfair <br />shares. 92% of the accessed fees remains uncollected, according to Fair <br />Share Annual Report submitted to the County Council earlier this year by <br />the Planning Department. <br />Most of us could support new developments consistent with the goals <br />and objectives adopted within the Kona Community Development Plan if <br />they paid the full impact of their use. We need concurrency because fair <br />share does NOT work. <br />Please vote for Bill number 215. It is a method to fund land for <br />infrastructure including parks and fire stations because without it, history <br />has shown that new development has created greater and greater <br />shortfalls in the infrastructure and services needed to serve them. <br />Comm. No. 72q, <br />Ref. To: P1 PC- <br />Ref. Date MAY 0 4 2010 <br />