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here seated who are not going to speak, and there are many more who weren’t able to come today.
<br />My husband is here. I know for sure I speak for him and several of our neighbors who weren’t able
<br />to come today. So, I just want to lend my voice to the opposition along the vein of how we cherish
<br />our community, how we want to see Kona grow. We want to see Kona grow, but we want to see
<br />Kona grow in a really planned way – a way that preserves the nature of our communities and the
<br />spot that we all really love very dearly. And I know that this particular proposal, I believe, is not
<br />well planned, and we rely on you to make sure that something that does get built in this area is well
<br />planned. So, I thank you very much for your time.
<br />HOUSEL: Thank you. Could you please state your name and address, please?
<br />HUSSEY: Absolutely. My name is Barbara Hussey. I live at 75-6112 Haku Mele Street in Pualani
<br />Estates. I am on the Pualani Estates Association Board, and so -. I don’t see other members here,
<br />they may be here. But my issue and what I would like to speak to is about Puapua‘anui.
<br />Puapua‘anui currently is a freeway, up and down the street continually, and something that we have
<br />worked on for a while; speed limit is 25, most people go 45 to 50 miles an hour on Puapua‘anui. I
<br />was just aghast when I was reading this morning in the paper that this is going to be one of the main
<br />roads that’s going to connect all of this new development. And I’m thinking, oh my goodness, we
<br />have no speed bumps, we have no way to control the traffic that’s already on the road. Some of
<br />those individuals actually don’t even live in Pualani Estates. But it is indeed, and I just want to
<br />reiterate again, that it’s very much a freeway already and that, I think, really, really needs to be
<br />addressed before anything happens up in the far end of Puapua‘anui. Thank you so much.
<br />HOUSEL: Thank you.
<br />MATSUKAWA: My name is Mike Matsukawa. My address is 75-5751 Kuakini Highway, Kailua-
<br />Kona. I own a property mauka on Huallai Road, and I’m here speaking for myself. I submitted
<br />some written testimony earlier. It was late but it took me four or five days to write, so that I could
<br />crystallize my thoughts as best as I could. What you see happening right now is a reflection of why
<br />the Community Development Plan came to be in the first instance. It was an effort to gather the
<br />community thoughts and feelings about everything that’s been said, where and how you locate
<br />future growth – it’s not stopping growth but where do you direct growth. This is the core of the
<br />CDP ordinance Principle No. 5: “Direct future growth patterns toward compact villages ….” as
<br />defined in the CDP ordinance. Those villages capture what the people have testified here this
<br />morning, and I’m sure others have written. Somehow find the balance to create landowners’ desire
<br />to develop their properties, provide housing, but at the same time in a rational manner where you
<br />have a walkable communities, open spaces preserved, address traffic impacts, all in a rational
<br />method. And so, my testimony is that I don’t think the applicants have given the CDP process a
<br />chance. It’s a process, you know. Other communities with dense populations on the east coast who
<br />have used the concept of Transit-Oriented Development or TND’s or what we call these compact
<br />villages with a floating zone, they do encourage landowners, planners to get together and try to
<br />make it work, because it reflects the best interest of the community. What is happening with these
<br />applications, all three, which I’m speaking to, is it seems like not much an effort has been made to
<br />really go through the process, and then to give up real quick, and go back to conventional zoning
<br />and find a way to just do it the same old way, because maybe it’s too hard or too impractical to do a
<br />compact village design, because there would be fractured landowners, two, three, four parcels, not
<br />under one individual’s ownership. But that’s the whole collaborative process underlying Principle
<br />No. 5. Thank you.
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