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CARR SMITH: Everybody has a lot to say. Thanks for being patient.
<br /> YATES: That's okay. Well, first of all, I mean we all realize housing is at the shortage, and it
<br /> would be a great thing to be able to have more shortage [sic] but, again, you know, I went to school
<br /> here at Konawaena High School more than 50 years ago; the road, Kuakini, has not been improved
<br /> to any way that will be, you know, conducive to traffic these days. And I know all of that has to be
<br /> done. So, again, it has to do with the infrastructure.
<br /> Secondly, can, you know, when you build all of these homes, etcetera, etcetera, who, the County has
<br /> to come up with monies, has to come up with workers, has to come up with maintaining, I mean they
<br /> are saying a park, so who is going to maintain that park? We need more County employees. There
<br /> is a lot of things that needs to be taken into consideration other than having affordable housing. And
<br /> then, of course, yeah,people, you know, may walk around and, but, my biggest concern is, you
<br /> know, can our County support this, you know, with the maintaining the road—or are the developers
<br /> going to maintain the road? Are they going to also take care of the parks? Are they also going to
<br /> provide transportation? Maybe the transportation to the commercial areas? What's going to
<br /> happen? This is my concern, you know. It becomes a tax burden on all of us. So, are the people
<br /> that buy into their place, they are going to be responsible for their taxes to take care of where they
<br /> are? As we all know, you know, all of us are paying an exorbitant amount of taxes to be able to
<br /> support our County. So all of these things to me are something that needs to be considered and, you
<br /> know, unfortunately, it's a good idea, but I have to agree with our Director that, you know, maybe
<br /> now is not the time or maybe more thought should be put into it so that it's not a tax burden on all of
<br /> us. Thank you.
<br /> CARR SMITH: Thank you. Max, do you have any questions for staff?
<br /> NEWBURG: At this time I don't have any questions, but just merely, simply put that the request of
<br /> exemptions being made by the applicant seem to far outweigh what they are offering as a project.
<br /> We desperately need housing, but I just don't see between what they are proposing and what the
<br /> community needs coming together. I just leave that as my statement.
<br /> CARR SMITH: Okay, thank you. Maija.
<br /> JACKSON: Thank you, Chair Carr Smith. Can I just close with one more idea? When the Planning
<br /> Director makes a recommendation, what we do is we look at for zoning, we look at whether the
<br /> zoning is the most appropriate land use, I'm sorry,the most appropriate zoning for that area in order
<br /> to create the best land use pattern. So I know there is a tendency on all of our permits to look at
<br /> projects rather than the zoning that's being requested. What we are saying in this case is right now
<br /> the applicant has Commercial and Residential segregated zoning districts, and what we are saying is
<br /> a Project District would be the more appropriate zoning district to create the land use pattern that the
<br /> Kona community has said that they want to see in this area.
<br /> CARR SMITH: And that would - - - -traffic, right?
<br /> JACKSON: I'm sorry, what was that?
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