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were at on the island, Ive personally been opposing development that has the effect of
<br />generating more growth. For example the project, the proposal to have 2,000 timeshares,
<br />600 hotel rooms around Honokohau Harbor, if you do that, you must find a workforce.
<br />You must import a workforce to fulfill that development. You dont have 2,000 people
<br />running around who are looking for jobs working in a timeshare. So thats a growth
<br />generating kind of a decision. But, by the same token, you cant control people that
<br />decide, you know, they decide to retire in Hawaii. They open up the West Hawaii Today
<br />to the real estate ads and find a place to live.
<br />Now many places try to control growth and development by limiting the number of sites
<br />that you can live on. To give you an example, somebody had me, said I should go look at
<br />this plan for a place called Sanibel Island, Florida. Sanibel Island, Florida is a little
<br />island thats off the coast of Florida. They have a bridge that goes from the mainland.
<br />And they have a plan, they have an overall plan; and it says 7,000 residential units can be
<br />builtonSanibelIsland,Florida;andtheyactuallyholdtothatplan.Andapparentlyitsa
<br />very nice place to live, but very, very expensive. But I can tell you though, and I did a
<br />little more research because I can tell you exactly what happens at Sanibel Island, Florida
<br />every day. Theres a bridge, and over that bridge come all the people that clean the
<br />homes, work in the yards, are the police officers and are priced out of living in Sanibel
<br />Island, Florida. So if you adopt the growth control strategy, you can adopt a growth
<br />control strategy for regions that youre going to hold growth in a particular region; but
<br />you have to make some accommodation. We dont have an away where those other
<br />people are going to come from and nor do we want to have that attitude. So you have to
<br />then have a strategy for how are you going to have affordable housing for the people that
<br />youre trying to keep in your community. The other thing to note about that strategy is
<br />weve let a lot of things out the door already. You know, on this island we have
<br />something like 40,000, 50,000 vacant lots that were created in the fifties and sixties that
<br />people can move to. So we are really past the point where a strategy thats based, a
<br />growth management strategy thats based on a cap on the number of units that you allow,
<br />and thats how youre going to hold your population down, will work. So within that
<br />framework though, you know, as I say were not trying to, there are communities that
<br />will encourage any kind of economic development because theyre desperate for jobs and
<br />activity. There are places that will welcome the nuclear waste dump, you know,
<br />whatever. And I dont think were that kind of a community at this point.
<br />DOMINGO:You know, time and time again we hear that theres a certain
<br />project that would generate jobs, and Ive heard that many times. But even today Im still
<br />hearing that very same, one of that very same reason that development should occur
<br />because itll provide jobs. And whats happening is that when those projects are
<br />approved, jobs are available for people who live here but certainly by the same token it
<br />attracts people from outside of the State to move here. And, of course, those who moved
<br />here are described within several categories. Those who are really rich who can come
<br />here, buy a place that costs millions of dollars, live here for a short period of time, for a
<br />season, and go back to their other home. And there are those who come here who can
<br />just afford to buy and manage to live here and eek out a living. And those who come
<br />here cannot even afford to buy homes. So that creates a problem, you know, the problem
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