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send out an e-mail once the draft was ready. He said it probably makes more sense to send out a
<br />mailing early, and then one in the middle, and then one when the draft is ready. Mailings don’t
<br />cost that much compared to what we’re talking about as far as consultants, and doing the
<br />meetings, and so on and so forth. So that’s just a comment.
<br />The other thing, the only point I have a problem with in this Community Development Plan, and
<br />I will suggest an amendment before I will vote for this, is there is one provision in the
<br />Community Development Plan where any lot in the undeveloped areas that’s over 1,000 feet
<br />deep has a 1,000-foot setback from the sea. Well, admittedly there are not very many that’s
<br />going to fit in that criteria. But this is going to be ordinance. This will be law. This will be in
<br />effect for ten years. And I think that, you know, if you have somebody that has got a lot that’s a
<br />1010 feet deep and they have 1000-foot setback, they’ve basically lost any right to their property.
<br />So I would suggest, and I will suggest this as an amendment before I vote on it, that that article
<br />be changed that any lot that is over 1500 feet deep have a 1000-foot setback. So those would be
<br />my two comments. And if you have anything you’d like to reply I’d be happy to hear what you
<br />have so say.
<br />WATANABE: Yes, Nancy.
<br />PISICCHIO: Thank you. After the first Planning Commission meeting I went back,
<br />and just for the point of information, and added up the participation in all the meetings. I
<br />actually came up to 1700 exclusive of the working groups. But I really think that any attempts
<br />that you can come up with to try to get participation is wonderful. The more the better. And,
<br />you know, we went to all sorts of meetings to try to get people to participate and I was, you
<br />know, thrilled with what we got. As a matter of fact I was on the County Council when we
<br />drafted the General Plan and at that point, you know, community participation was really like
<br />have public meetings, you know, about three of them, and call it good, you know. So this
<br />process is a frontier from my personal experience. And speaking of the survey, when we first
<br />started when I was initially under contract with Research and Development to do the public
<br />outreach, we actually did send out a questionnaire to every PO Box in Kona and invited them to
<br />participate, and to send in what their interest was, and how they might want to participate. And
<br />we, you know, put boxes all over town to get them to insert them so they wouldn’t have to mail
<br />them back; and I was just really disappointed with how many people actually filled them out.
<br />We put an ad in the paper to let people know these were coming. And whatever you can do to
<br />inspire people, that was my brainstorm; and I talked Jane Testa in coming up with the money to
<br />do it, just do the PO Boxes. But it was, I think we got something like a, you know, very few
<br />percentage of the thing actually got filled out. But, you know, again, try everything, try anything
<br />you can think of, because it’s great to get participation.
<br />WOODWARD: Well, I think, you know, you can’t force anybody in a democracy to
<br />participate. That’s the problem. If they don’t want to participate they’re not going to. But I
<br />think if we are able to send out, and there’s nothing in the law in Section 15-1 of the General
<br />Plan that prohibits this, if we’re able to send out a questionnaire with just two simple questions,
<br />for example in Kau, what do you think needs to be changed in Kau and where are your
<br />suggestions, and that information can be used. It doesn’t necessarily, you know, we kind of
<br />gotten into this, we’re in a box essentially. You know, this is way the Planning Department has
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