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September 26, 2024 <br /> Comments on the <br /> County of Hawai'i General Plan 2045 <br /> Final Recommended Draft July 2024 <br /> GLOSSARY: <br /> Functional Plan: Why would a functional plan not be adopted by Resolution? This is a bad idea <br /> to create a plan, have public comments on the plan, and then have it adopted by Resolution. <br /> Why would the public trust such a plan. <br /> Please also explain if these functional plans are required to be prepared by other County or <br /> State Agencies or if this is an intention or "best practices" from the Planning Department and <br /> its General Plan consultants. I attended the General Plan meeting in Kona in late August. The <br /> way the information was presented at this meeting was that these functional plans were <br /> something to explore, and not a required procedure. <br /> Also, how does this type of plan differ from a policy? There needs to be a further and greater <br /> explanation of this type of plan, how it's used, what Agency uses this plan, and why it's <br /> necessary. The definition, and application, feels phony, and troubling in how it's used, created, <br /> and adopted (or not). <br /> Incompatible Development: Please explain this better or provide an example of this. The <br /> descriptor makes it sound like a land use that's crossed a property line (with a few different <br /> options to solve this situation). However, the "negative or economic or environmental effects" <br /> implies something different, like the impacts of climate change, or VOG. Please provide a <br /> better explanation of what this is, and why this term is needed in the General Plan. <br /> Indigenous Data Science: Please better explain what is being said here. It's not easy to follow, <br /> and it should be. Please also expand somewhere in the draft General Plan HOW community <br /> engagement is to occur for this type of IDS. I am very skeptical about the Planning <br /> Department's approach to engaging the indigenous communities since it appears not to unless <br /> required by by SHPD for the various cultural impact assessments, burial plans, or archeological <br /> studies. A better approach would be to reach out to the indigenous communities island wide, <br /> and start to build a relationship with people so that when development applications are <br /> submitted, the various communities are consulted first, and not as an afterthought. <br /> Innovative Housing: The use of ADUs, factory-built homes, manufactures or modular (and <br /> volumetric) housing are not new types or uses of housing. If it is to Hawai'i Island, please say <br /> that. Please also define what is "volumetric housing"? Please use more basic terms in the <br /> General Plan that some of what reads as weird jargon. <br /> Integrated Resource Plans: Cross-island transmission lines? Is this discussed elsewhere in the <br /> draft GP? This is a huge issue, even if the Planning Department, and the County of Hawai'i can <br /> only give guidance to HELCO or the state Public Utility Commission on this issue. These <br /> transmission lines are an eyesore, there's been a huge body of information about the health risk <br /> potential of the electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted by these power lines, and where this kind <br /> of facility is places. <br /> Net Zero: The term "global warming" is used here. I thought the term "climate change" is the <br /> more commonly used phrase. Please consider using this language throughout the draft <br /> General Plan. Page 10 of the Glossary has a definition of Climate Change, Climate Change <br />