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County of Hawai'i Draft General Plan <br /> 2019 Public Comments on Economic & Opportunity Planning <br /> Comment Source Date <br /> For affordable housing, setting a goal to reduce the amount of people Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> on the waiting list for a unit (section 8) <br /> New development in housing should be off grid systems e.g., <br /> catchment where possible Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> Explore possible alternative building codes. Mainland codes do not <br /> Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> necessarily need to be done in Hawai'i. New materials can be used to <br /> build affordable structures but may not meet current code. Example <br /> could be single wall construction --can it be done now? <br /> How to sustain agriculture without supporting supply-chain (e.g., <br /> Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> equipment, storage, transport)? <br /> Zoning is the key to affordability of housing vs affordable housing. Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> Need to consider the whole picture <br /> Should put our houses on wheels <br /> • RV parks too <br /> Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> • Prep for disasters <br /> • Don't damage the land <br /> Affordable rentals <br /> • Not just lease Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> • Be able to purchase <br /> Need to enforce rules on accessory dwellings Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> Critical failures by government <br /> • On land use crisis Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> Housing affordability, cost burden, overcrowded <br /> The County should not allow building in the Floodplains Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> Social equity on the energy side--affordable housing that's smaller. Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> How to encourage development of small, affordable housing? <br /> Revision of grubbing and grading ordinance to be completed within <br /> Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> one year of GP passage <br /> Regulate special interests within Council so that requirements for <br /> developers are not compromised on <br /> • E.g., if affordable housing development requirement exists, they Kona Speakout 8/24/2019 <br /> have to do it instead of taking money for it. Always a way to make it <br /> doable. "Solve for the bottlenecks" <br /> •We have a "bias for inaction" here <br /> 16 <br />