2024-10-28 Kūpuna for the Moʻopuna Testimony GP 2045

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(3) DHHL Comments on Draft County of Hawaii General Plan Update - October 31, 2019 & August 30, 2017 (l 1pages) STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OP HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS Ka 'Oihana 'Rina Ho'opufapula Hawai'i February 28, 2024 The Honorable Zendo Kem, Director County of Hawaii Planning Department Aupuni Center, 101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 Hilo, HI 96720 Aloha Director Kem: RE: DHHL Comments on the County of Hawaii 2045 General Plan SE Ref: P0-24-032 Mahalo for the opportunity to provide comments on the County of Hawaii's General Plan Update. The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) offers the following comments: 1. Recognition and coordination of the Hawaiian Homes Commission (HHC) land use authority with the County's land use authority is memorialized in the 2002 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between DHHL and the County. DHHL requests that the County includes this document as either as an appendices to the County General Plan or in separate section of the plan. where appropriate, to ensure that there is a reference for current and future County staff, elected officials, and members of the public about the relationship between DHHL and the County. The MOU between the County and DHHL was created almost a quarter century ago and while DHHL knows that current County Planning Department staff are aware of the MOU and the unique status of the Hawaiian Homes Commission's land use authority over DHHL lands, DHHL wants to further ensure that future County staff future elected officials, and future members of the public continue to have an institutional memory of the relationship between DHHL and the County. Incorporating a reference to this document in the 2045 County General Plan Update will better guarantee that this institutional memory is perpetuated in future generations. The 2002 MOU is enclosed for your convenience and reference.