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community development plans are our best safeguard against this tyranny. If the County Council <br />passes this piece of work, we don’t need to bother with community development plans. Your <br />voice has been taken away. <br />And as Director Yuen was saying, no district in the County currently conforms to all of these <br />arbitrary guidelines in this bill. What that means is there can be no change in zoning until these <br />ridiculous guidelines are met. <br />The bill intends to affect a moratorium on zoning changes, using lack of infrastructure and <br />services as an excuse. However, the bill does nothing to address the problems they cite. <br />Specifically, the County Council has adopted arbitrary levels of infrastructure and services, with <br />no way to achieve these goals. No funding provided. If the County Council really feels the <br />levels of service in this bill are necessary, they need to get off their okoles and arrange for the <br />funding. As an example, an elderly couple that comes to us – and we have this happen all the <br />time – requesting a zoning change so they can build a home for their son and daughter-in-law are <br />not going to be able to pay for the County’s deficient infrastructure. And their request for <br />rezoning would have to be denied. In fact, we couldn’t even consider it. <br />And Director Yuen has made a number of excellent points; I would like to quote a few of his <br />remarks in his recommendation with which I heartily agree: “…. this rezoning ban would do <br />nothing to increase the number of parks or police officers. It would penalize property owners by <br />forbidding them from getting zoning changes when they cannot themselves remedy the situation <br />with respect to parks, police, or fire stations.It would, in fact, ban rezoning on the grounds that <br />insufficient developed park space existed in the district, even though the zoning request might <br />include public park lands that would reduce the problem. Rezoning decisions should be made on <br />their merits, guided by the General Plan and Community Development Plans. If a site is not a <br />good one for the development proposed by the rezoning, it should be denied. The denial can be <br />based on many different reasons, like traffic congestion, flooding, historic sites, inconsistency <br />with the LUPAG map, the desire to avoid sprawl or protect open space, and any of the other <br />factors that go into good land use planning …. But this can be addressed when rezoning is <br />considered, rather than apply an inflexible district-wide rule.” <br />And the County Council must have been bored. I really have no idea why they came up with this <br />atrocious plan. It is in fact government micro-manipulation at its worst. This bill has no <br />redeeming social value, is not going to help our people or our communities, and I strongly <br />encourage my fellow Commissioners to send a strongly negative recommendation with regard to <br />this piece of work. And if you really want to know how I feel, just ask me. <br />WATANABE: Mr. Domingo, something to add? <br />DOMINGO: In addition to that, as I said at our last meeting, it was just a cop-out by the <br />Council to come up with this, and they can easily address their concerns in their proposed <br />ordinance by the powers that they already have.And as the Planning Director said and then as <br />Commissioner Woodward said, you know, it would only penalize those who’ve been living here, <br />who’ve inherited properties from their ancestors for many years back and who still hang onto <br />these properties, and now because of the hard economic times we are facing, they feel they need <br />EXHIBIT B <br />3 <br /> <br />