2024-12-21 Michelle Melendez - Mahalo

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From: Michelle Melendez To: LPCtestimonv;WPCtestimonv Subject: My verbal Testimony in written form(mahalo) Date: Saturday, December 21,2024 2:40:40 PM Aloha Commissions, Here is my written testimony of my verbal testimony: I believe this is my tenth time speaking at these meetings about the GP and have yet to see one local in support of this plan. Yet, we're meant to believe locals helped create this plan. This plan has so many things that indicate the State, and electric companies are the ones who will prosper, not locals and not our future keiki. We were told the land for Conservation is already State land. Yet, land allocated for Conservation runs nearly the entire coast of Big Island. There are private land owners who own coast land so that cannot be true that all current Conservation land is owned by the State. Where are Hawaiian Homelands in this plan? When I do a word search I get "not found". What I'm concerned with most: Land that will be "acquired" for Conservation, Natural, and Rural land. It even says that they'll "lease" it back to the farmer. This land should be used to grow more food, not be taken away from people and conserved. The wording of the plan is confusing: • For example: "Immediate steps shall be taken to designate treatment plant sites, sewerage pump station sites, and sewer easements according to the facility plans to facilitate their acquisition." pg. 137 (27.3) Does this mean they want to immediately acquire people's land for sewage sites? It shows that it wants to move people into clustered housing. Page 10 Cluster Plan Development(CPD) refers to a land use planning strategy where residential or commercial development is concentrated in specific areas while preserving larger portions of the land as open space or natural areas. In this