PL-REZ-2022-000033 R. MELENDEZ TESTIMONY 12.14.2022

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This could help the local homes shortage as well as slow the increase in population. For example, a stipulation to be able to build and sell homes on The Big Island would be they must sell 50% of their homes to Hawaiian locals who have lived on the island for 10 years or more, 25% to regular locals who have lived on the island for 10 years or more and all at an affordable rate that is under $400,000, and sell 25% to newcomers at whatever rate they want. That is 75% of homes that developers build must be sold to locals in order to be approved to build on the island. This would help the locals who have lived here for years be able to purchase a home before big investors, as well as help, slow down homes from becoming vacation rentals instead of family homes, and will help decrease the fast increase in population until the Planning Department can know for sure that the island's infrastructure, as well as resources, can handle a serious increase in population. We also ask for an Environment Population Impact Report to be done on what would be a safe population for the Big Island due to the infrastructure of the island's roads, landfill, water, sewer... There are mostly only 2 lanes throughout the entire Big Island and some places where cars cannot pull over if an ambulance needs to get by. If the island's population keeps increasing there will be constant serious traffic and how will ambulances get by in emergencies? What if there is a tsunami and people need to get to higher ground? Will they be able to get to higher ground in time with increased traffic? The island's small road infrastructure isn't made for a high population. What is a safe population for the Big Island? The Environment population Impact Report can tell us. We ask this to be done. We ask for another hospital to be built, as well as a trauma center and dive chamber to be put on the island to accommodate all types of injuries before you