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DeVera, Ashley <br /> From: Helen Higa < <br /> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 10:29 AM <br /> To: Planning General Plan <br /> Subject: Revise Hawaii General Plan Testimony HERE <br /> Importance: High <br /> Aloha Planning Department, <br /> The final draft of the Big Island general plan does not support the future of Big Island, nor <br /> does it clearly define what you want to do. <br /> After what we learned from the Lahaina Fires, it is vital for ALL of us to focus ourselves <br /> on goals that the people of Hawaii Island need and outlined in the REVISED general plan <br /> PDF attached below. <br /> The `general plan" as it reads now should be revised as follows OR thrown-out and redone.(See PDF <br /> link below). <br /> The current general plan looks like it will further regulate and fine the public, limit travel, <br /> cluster people into dense housing and more. It has no conclusive plan to help <br /> communities prosper. <br /> The main structure of the plan is "Sustainability" when it should be "Innovation". I am a <br /> retired music teacher who has spent many vacations on the Big Island.As a child we stayed with my <br /> uncle's family in Kona. I LOVE the BIG Island and visit as often as I can (staying at the Manago <br /> Hotel). I always go to Teshima's for Tempura and sashimi and Ho'o nau'nau. <br /> We want to move toward thriving communities, environmental support and economic alternatives that <br /> support farmers and homeowners and not put people in boxes while over-regulating them. <br /> The general plan you have is modeled throughout the United States/Mainland with the exact <br /> same words like: cluster, stakeholder, buffer zones, change codes, amend and more! <br /> I personally have over 30 years of annual summer travel to teach Suzuki violin to children in <br /> who attend the Seattle,Utah, California, Colorado or Idaho Institutes. I no longer travel to <br /> CA, since the Santa Rosa fires destroyed the bucolic Ursula High School and Elementary <br /> school where we held classes every summer. After the fires, I witnessed Light Rail and <br /> Agenda 21 , attempting to transform the formerly tranquil, laid back, VERY green and beautiful <br /> area into? I have no idea or desire to return. After the fires the workshop was forced to move <br /> 1 <br />