2019-06-20 Leeward Exh B (Amend Kona CDP)

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were creating was anything but a guideline and putting out on paper what we wanted to see happen in our community. And that to hear some of the horror stories that what people can’t do or what we have to wait for to be able to have happened just is mindboggling to me. Some parts of it require certain roads that are the responsibility maybe of the County, and we don’t have the funding or the financing to ever maybe be able to complete some of these things, and to sit and have to wait for that sort of stuff just seems really unintended. I don’t think that was the concept. Maybe for some people it was, but certainly not for me and a lot of people that I know. So, again, I urge you to, I urge you to support these amendments. I support these amendments. And I think that there needs to be common sense and some enlightening of the impact that this document has for all of us. Thank you very much. WEBER: Aloha. My name is Franz Weber. I’m a member of the CDP Action Committee, but, of course, I’m only speaking for myself. I live in Kona. And first of all, kudos to Kamuela and the Planning Department with the help from the corporate counsel and other groups to get all this paperwork together to look through all the, trying to get all the input from all the departments – that was not very rewarding work but very necessary – and also, sub-committee then who looked at it and everything. It’s unfortunate that, at the time this Plan was made, that it wasn’t realized that it’s not just a guideline or recommendation but that it has legal implication. If that would have been known at that time, maybe some of the work would have been done differently. What I notice with all the changes that were done because, to make sure they comply with the laws, there was no recommendation to change any of the other County rules to make them comply with the CDP plan. So it was kind of one-sided, and maybe there’s some areas where the CDP wording was better and other area should have been changed or considered to be changed. Also, what I think is important is although all these changes are necessary for liability and legal reasons, and I think there is no way around it, it should be thought about what the initial purpose was of the Plan, so maybe it is necessary to revise the CDP and look at it and see what was the purpose, what was the goal to be done and what should be changed and everything that affects these plans. Thank you. UNGER: Mahalo. Thank you. You may be seated. I think one of the – or is there any other people here that we missed for public testimony? Seeing, no, oh, kala mai. PALACAT-NELSEN: Mahalo, Chair. UNGER: Aloha. PALACAT-NELSEN: Aloha. My name is Shane Palacat-Nelsen. I sit on— UNGER: Please— PALACAT-NELSEN: Oh, kala mai. UNGER: —raise your right hand. Do you— PALACAT-NELSEN: Yeah, it’s my right hand. 16 EXHIBIT B