PD BACKGROUND & RECOMMENDATION REPORT (PL-CCI-2022-002)

Home

194 would eliminate these matters which clog the LPC agenda, and allow the Commissions to concentrate on the matters for which they do have authority . 9. Certainty as to conditions, infrastructure and affordable housing for the County, developers, and the public would come into being. Who would be against this bill, and why•? Even the PD and Assistant PD are not against the bill, and have testified that they are. "neutral •". They may say they don' t alway hand out free delays, but this author has found no record of that. And also found no record of any "beyond the control" reasons for delay. Below are some recent examples. The author would be happy to elaborate and/or give more examples. A. Keauhou condo B. Palamanui delay after giving earlier extensions, all without examination contemporar4y of many County officials. It was supposed to build a bypass street from Mamalaoa Highway to Queen Kaahumanu Highway, interconnecting with streets on the way, by 2005, to alleviate traffic on Mamalahoa and traffic to its huge residential and commercial project. Palamanui obtained delays and extensions to 2025. The result: huge traffic jams and accidents, including fatalities,on Mamalahoa and Palani Road to Hina Lani and into town. Palamanui at the last hyering for further delay, promised that they would build it out. But instead they SOLD to NAN, Inc. Expect Nan, Inc. to ask for further delay C. Diamond Resorts, an SMA. A time share condo project, makai side of Alii Drive past the hotel and tennis courts. It was approved about 1998, based on conditions then. After completing only the parking garage cement monstrosity on the ground there, which blights the area, the project was SOLD. The buyer asked for a delay to 2025, with its representative, Mr. Fuke, refusing any new infrastructure, not even a new traffic study on Alii Drive, which he said was all that was required. The delay was recommended, but thankfully a "sunset" clause was added. D._________________________________This commercial and residential project was to be located off of Kuakini Highway and Queen Kaahumanu near Lako Street. Its ordinance expired in 2005, although its representative argued expiration in 2015. The ordinance was ""resurrected", and an extension until 2025 sought. Then project would have dumped about a thousand vehicles onto Queen K into the worst traffic jams in Kona, from Lako north and south. Representative Fuke misrepresented, in the author's opinion, that the land would revert to inappropriate ag.zoning if the project was not approved. He also presented a traffic study, which did not at all mention Henry Street, mauka and makai, the biggest by far traffic generators into the traffic jams on Queen K, arguing that traffic would not be a problem. It also represented that any traffic problem would be taken care of by the State adding a lane to Queen K and/or building out the Alii Drive realignment by 2025. The project received a negative recommendation by then PD Yee and a unanimous LPC. Later, in what this author thinks was a shocking display of disrespect for PD Yee and the LPC, under the guidance of council person Kierkewitz, the negative reccomendation was changed to positive! Thereafter the project was promptly SOLD to BIG Springs Development LLC. Expect them to ask for further delays. West Hawaii wants quality development, infrastructure and affordable housing on a measurable and definite scale and schedule. It's a very taxpayer expensive 25 years behind because of the developer friendly archaic system, which badly damages the people of West Hawaii, whopm you represent. Please support Bill 194.. Mark Van Pernis