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l;lCl UC:! ~ ~ ''JUUCr.t ~ ~ ~ Preserving the <br /> P.O. Box 263, Pahoa, Hawaii 96778 good in Puna <br /> Adrian Barber President <br /> Phone & fax: (808) 965-6050 <br /> Pahoa Office: (808) 965-0557 <br /> February 7, 1997 <br /> Chairperson, Members of the Hawaii County Council. a RECENED'' <br /> Tlme------'- By-----------•------- <br /> '-7 <br /> Aloha . Date----•---- -K_7 -9.7-- <br /> - County Council <br /> My name is Adrian Barber. I reside at 13-1276 Leilani Avenue <br /> 96778. I am President of Puna Malama Pono. <br /> I have some serious reservations about this Bill. <br /> 1. At a time when the county does not have sufficient revenues to <br /> meet its expenditures, is it prudent fiscal policy to take money <br /> from the County budget to set up a fund to buy out residents <br /> impacted by a private business. If I open, say, a pig farm on my <br /> lot in Leilani and my neighbor complains of the stink does the <br /> County intend buying out my complaining neighbor? Of course it <br /> does not. Let the developer fort the bill here. Not the taxpayers <br /> and voters of the County of Hawaii. <br /> 2. The rules ford the administration of the proposed fund, as set <br /> forth by the Planning Director, Ms. Virginia Goldstein, in the <br /> Hawaii Tribune-Herald of January 9, 1997, a copy is appened to my <br /> testimony, area to my perception, arbitrary and capricious. What <br /> about a resident at one mile and one hundred feet? What about a <br /> person who bought in on October 4, 1989? What about a person who <br /> owned property within the one mile radius but dare not live there? <br /> Have they noy seen their property value fall? Are these people not <br /> impacted? Do these rules violate the rights of citizens under the <br /> Federal and State Constitutions for equal protection under the <br /> Law? <br /> 3. Should the County get into the real estate business? <br /> 4. According to the Planning Director the county would include p~ ? <br /> covenants in the resale contracts that would require the buyer not O. ~ c <br /> to complain or object to the operation of this private business. J ~ ~ r <br /> <br /> May the County do this I don't believe a person my sign away p ~ <br /> their constitutional rights to free expression. what is the County ~ Z c o <br /> going to do if they do complain? Try to uphold an illegal law? Is 4 ~ <br /> m ~ <br /> it not deplorable that such a thing is even being conteplated? ~d a <br /> r <br /> A Hawai'I non pro(~t corporation certified pursuant to iRS Code § 501(c)(3) ~ ~ <br /> C- 59.03 ~ ~ ~ <br /> <br />