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3/2s/2011 it + +achrrten4- A www.hawaiicountycdp .info /pipermail /ka... 73 1 or 3 Aloha Steering Committee members, Thank you for your participation during Saturday's Summit. You contributed significantly to setting a very positive tone and for gathering some great information. Mahalo! During the Summit and on several other occasions since the news of the Nani Kahuku Aina development broke last week, we've received questions regarding the proposal for 16,000 acres in Ocean View. Our strategy, Councilmember Guy Enriques affirmed during a meeting last week (he's also getting lots of questins about the project), has been to include the project in our Charrette studies to test its merits and get public input on the proposed General Plan amendments. Therefore, if people approach you about the project, please encourage them to participate in the charrette. To make sure we're all on the same page, we thought it would be useful to forward you my response below to common questions that people are asking. Please help us communicate accurate information about the project and how it interfaces with the CDP process. As always, let me know if you have any questions. Ron Front Ron Whitmore [maiIto:rwhitmore @co,hawaii.hj , us] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:03 AM To: 'hawaiiesparza @aol.com' Cc: 'Roy Takemoto'; 'Howard Biackson' Subject: RE: Plans Include Resort's Own Airstrip Coastal resort planned for Big Island Aloha Richard, Thanks for your suggestions. A few things: 1) It's important to understand that Roy Takemoto is not the lead planner for Nani Kahuku Aina. Tom Witten. PBR's principal, is. It's my understanding that Roy's role is limited to doing the EIS. Therefore, Nani Kahuku Aina is not Roy's vision -- it's the vision of the Peroff family and their partners. Katherine Peroff or Aaron Eberhardt would be the appropriate people to share the project vision with the public, which they've been doing. 2) Roy will not be an author of the CDP. Roy's role with the CDP is limited to doing obiective data /information gathering and mapping for the community profile. He is not doing any analysis, and he won't be inwlved in the planning, other than to help with some economic mapping. 3) As the project team is doing with all large landowners /developers, we've met with representatives from Nani Kahuku Aina (not including Roy) to discuss their plans. And like all stakeholders. they've been invited to participate in the charrette. They've agreed to do that and to wait to complete the draft EIS until after the charrette. 4) ft is not the Steering Committee's role to consider individual developments (or to do any planning, for that matter). The purpose of the very public summits and charrette is to involve all stakeholders in the key planning exercises. Nani Kahuku Aina's plans will be part of at least one altemative development scenario that is considered during the charrette, so, as you suggest, everyone will be able to help evaluate whether the proposed General Plan amendments are appropriate from a regional planning perspective. 5) Keep in mind that the General Plan amendment being requested by Nani Kahuku Aina is the first in a long series of land use and other entitlements that they will have to get before the project is a go. They have not yet, as misreported in the Ka u Calendar, applied for rezoning. That is a long ways off. Therefore, the timing of their GP amendment petition and the CDP couldn't be better — it gives the community the opportunity to consider the hawaiicountycdp .info /... /attachment.htm 1/3