2010-12-16 TFOULKexhibitE - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

make some money, buy a piece of property that was an old beautiful historic home, turned it around, turned it into a condo, and cash in big. They gambled and they lost. And we shouldn’t have to carry the brunt or the responsibility of that. I encourage you please hold the current variance. It’s my understanding that the DLNR is going to be looking at extending the variance requirements for shoreline building. I encourage you to please uphold that variance and put a stop to this development. Aloha. HOUSEL: Thank you for your testimony. ODEGAARD: Aloha . My name is Malulani Odegaard. I live at 77-116 La‘aloa Avenue. I’m a teacher, a Hawaiian language teacher at Kahakai Elementary School, also by profession a community designer and planner. And I have to say that I’m just really surprised that this is even being presented to the community. How does something like this even get, put upon the community? It is an affront to the culture. And, I mean, you can calculate the time that has been wasted and all of the response that has come up. I think that this has created a lot of distress for our community. And I think that until guidelines are adopted that either put a moratorium on building makai of Ali‘i Drive or provide better guidelines for presenting projects to the public. I think that you really ought to strongly consider a moratorium, because at this point I can’t see any way that anything like this would ever be acceptable to this community. So in general I think that you might want to consider some guidelines of tree line, consider dignity, and privacy of the neighbors. There are so many issues that are involved in this property that for me as a planner to see this happen it’s really an affront to my profession. And I think you ought to consider banning this architect or this planner from proposing future projects in this town. It’s really a waste of our time. Thank you. HOUSEL: Could I ask you to state your name and address please? We don’t have a card for you -. GONZALEZ: He did. HOUSEL: Oh, we do have one. GONZALEZ: He just jumped out of line. HOUSEL: Okay, okay. Thank you. Could you state your name, please? FEAR: Good morning, Jeff Fear, Big Island Waveriders Against Drugs, 73-4403 Kalaoa, Kona, Hawai‘i. I filled out a paper, he got it. HOUSEL: Okay, okay, thank you. Please go ahead. GONZALEZ: Oh, I mean, sorry, but the issue is people signed up and the Chair didn’t call you up. So that’s why we’re trying to find your name in the stack of papers, cause a lot of people signed up. So that’s all, thanks. FEAR: Okay. Keep going? HOUSEL: Yeah, please, please proceed. FEAR: Well, thank you for showing up. We’re voting against this, this project, because it’s our surf spot there. There’s too much traffic. We just got two crosswalks built that we were fighting 10 EXHIBIT E