2022-07-21 Leeward Exh E (Items 3&4 Hagen-Cowell Trust PL-SLU-2022-000004 & PL-REZ-2022-000019)

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Community Development Plan, which is a lovely aspirational document if you want Honolulu. I am a settler here. I, we first bought a home here in 2009, sold that and bought the home we are in now in 2018, excuse me, in 2015 and moved here full time in 2018. So I was not a part of that original discussion, and I was not aware at the time of it's being amended in 2019, and I wish I would have been. However, specific to this—and one more thing I wanted to mention before I get to my testimony is that I notice when there are people testify to the County Council, and I also recently testified on another item that we'll talk about later today for the Cultural Resources Commission, that the written testimony was provided online in their folders, and for the Planning Commission it is not, so I have no idea what anybody else has said, I have no idea if I'm being repetitive, I have no idea if there are points that still need to be made, I have no idea how many people. So I find that somewhat concerning especially since, you know, we don't want to take up too much of your time. For this particular parcel I want to emphasize what you just saw in the aerial photographs; this is a very dangerous intersection. I've driven it, I've gone to little dry cleaners there, and it is very, very frightening to get in and out, on and off that road. And while I realize that they have suggested, oh, we are going to have this alternateI don't think the Department of Transportation is always fond of it—this other way to get in and out, there is no guarantee that people will do that. And this is an accident, another accident, another fatal accident, this is a fatal intersection waiting to happen even if it wasn't ag. The developer's documentation indicates that they have no intention of having any affordable housing here, that it is all going to be market rate. We've seen what's happened to the market, and we know that the people who live here now are not going to be able to afford anything in this area. It's just not, it's just not possible. So you are going to be increasing the number of people here, you are going to be not allowing people who live here to access new housing, and you are going to do it in this case at risk of a very serious accident. So I just really want to, want to emphasize that this is the wrong parcel, the wrong place, and it is the right time to say stop paving over agricultural lands. Even if they are just used for livestock, even if we have to learn the new/old ways of farming, dry land farming is a very viable source if you take the time to learn it. I see by the video I'm not really holding people's attention, so I will stop here. Thank you. DEFRANCO: Thank you. All right, next testifier? HARVEY: Aloha. My name is Antu Harvey—hang on just a second. Can you hear me okay? DEFRANCO: Yes. HARVEY: Okay. I live in Holualoa. And I'm the president of Pulama is Kona Heritage Preservation Council of 501(c)(3), and our mission is to preserve, protect, and enhance the special qualities of Kona. I'm testifying on this agenda item because it isI'm, I'm not fond of converting ag lands to urban and residential sprawl—but it is really close to the highway backbone. My biggest concern with this agenda item is, as Janet had said, is about the access to the parcel regardless of what's put on it. It's extremely problematic; the access is so close to the 5 EXHIBIT E