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Rc'd at 10/6/22 by CM <br />Dist'd 10/6/22 Read <br />FILE COPY <br />WPCtestimony <br />From: Tsuneda, Kaci <br />Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2022 9:16 AM <br />To: WPCtestimony <br />Subject: FW: Windward planning commission - Bill 194 re zoning extensions <br />Aloha, <br />Kindly forwarding written testimony received by the Council Testimony email address for the October 6t" Windward <br />Planning Commission hearing. <br />Have a great day! <br />Warmest mahalo, <br />lip; . <br />JRP1CI TSUNEDA <br />C;.a until Aide W Council uncil Ch&LF <br />Made Medeuw Oavid <br />ph: (W8) 961-8261 <br />Hawai iCourrtyCour i1 <br />25 Aupuru Street, Suite #1402 <br />Hilo, Hawaii %720 <br />From: Janice Glennie [mailto:palmtree7@hawaiiantel.net] <br />Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2022 11:13 AM <br />To: Planning CDP <cdp@hawaiicounty.gov>; Council Testimony<counciltestimony@hawaiicounty.gov> <br />Subject: Windward planning commission - Bill 194 re zoning extensions <br />Support Bill 194 re stronger zoning extension rules <br />Aloha commissioners: <br />During my 40 years living on this island, I've seen projects on the back burner for decades brought forward <br />time and again for extensions. During those years and decades, our island has changed more dramatically than <br />most people could ever have predicted (except maybe those in the private and government sectors who've been <br />pulling and pushing for unbridled population growth). At this very moment in Kailua-Kona, traffic isn't moving <br />in many areas where traffic wasn't previously an issue. The reason: the lack of and poor planning including <br />allowing the proliferation of STVRs in neighborhoods ill-equipped to handle the growing onslaught of cars and <br />tourists in non -resort neighborhoods. And then there's climate change. Who would've thought, right? (Or, <br />really, it's more like, Who bothered to listen?) And that's just two of many strong examples of why old <br />development proposals should be required to meet a totally new review process in a totally new paradigm. And <br />it makes sense that those proposals should be reviewed by an elected body (aka County Council) rather than <br />administration appointees since there are so many consequences many dire that come from those <br />decisions. <br />Another challenge this bill can help balance is over -speculation. Speculation often creates a dead-end street that <br />harms our communities by artificially raising the value of property and housing to where it becomes impossible <br />for residents especially first time homebuyers to own a home. And, though often illegal (ask forgiveness <br />rather than permission) many of those properties are bulldozed before they're even rezoned. This can have <br />significant negative and unnecessarily adverse environmental affects on those areas and beyond. <br />