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WHEREAS, the County of Hawai`i currently has severe problems with traffic circulation issues, insufficient numbers of police officers and fire fighters, insufficient potable water wells in many areas, insufficient sewer capabilities in many areas. Allowing uncontrolled development in violation of our zoning, building, road design, and flooding codes, and ignoring the lack of sufficient potable water availability, and traffic circulation issues would exacerbate these problems for the entire community and cost the taxpayers great expense in the future to rectify the exacerbated problems; and WHEREAS, the County of Hawai`i has enacted or is in the process of enacting Community Development Plans, which may be ignored due to HRS 171C; and WHEREAS, only revenue generating uses are specifically mentioned in HRS 171C, so the "optimal use" appears to be those businesses that can generate the highest amount of revenue (hotels, resorts, commercial centers, agri-business for genetically modified crops, etc.), with no regard for parks or other types of community resources; and WHEREAS, development of residential units will not provide "fair share" contributions because there is no code for"fair share"; and WHEREAS, our scarce supply of potable water could be diverted to these potential developments; and WHEREAS, affordable housing in the 60-100% median range will not be developed; and WHEREAS,truly affordable housing may be built on the opposite side of this island from where the job centers or the developments are located; and WHEREAS, there is concern that large agri-businesses using GM crops may be instituted on public trust lands the Island of Hawai`i in disregard of Hawai`i County Code, Chapter 14 Article 15, which prohibits the agricultural use of genetically engineered coffee and kalo; and WHEREAS, HRS 171C allows ceded lands to be used not for homes for our Hawaiian families, but for the revenue production for the State; and WHEREAS,the people of the County of Hawai`i now realize the detrimental effect that HRS 171C will have on our land, ocean, environment, and the avoidance of many of our zoning and subdivision laws, which HRS 171C may ignore; and WHEREAS,the people of the County of Hawai`i have requested assistance from the Council of the County of Hawai`i to support the repeal of HRS 171C; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that the 2013 Hawai`i State Legislature is hereby requested to repeal Chapter 171C of the Hawai`i Revised Statutes in its entirety to effectively abolish the Public Land Development Corporation. 2