2025-03-01 Joanna Weber Testimony

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and other media outlets stating, "There is no climate danger". He explain the reason for this narrative is the investors, in renewable energy, want to make these changes. . Hilo does not have a Community Development Plan. How can a Big Island General Plan move forward without that? Hilo is 22% of the island. • 1.13 under "Increase the biodiversity and resilience of native habitats" it reads, "Incentivize private land management practices that protect and enhance natural resource values and, when appropriate, pursue the acquisition of lands for the protection of natural resources. " "Incentives" means more taxes. "Protection" means more rules. Whose "values" is this plan referring to, because it's not the locals'? "Pursue the acquisition of lands", does this say, they are going to pursue taking people's private property? Again with "protection of natural resources". This plan should be focused on people growing more food and it is doing the exact opposite! • This plan wants to turn land into "conservation". The exact opposite is what is needed for Big Island! We need to turn land into Ag Villages and grow more food! Steve Shropshire, a resident of Papaikou, has created an Ag Villages plan. Ag Village to add to the General Plan: Papaikou Ag Village Objectives: https://www.standtogetherhawaii.com/ files/ugd/86fc0c_2cbicc6d604f4c dd971ad40831c745bc.pddf Papaikou Site Plan: https://www.standtooetherhawaii.com/ files/ugd/86fc0c 5e4cdb02 efeb46a5ae949a3579aff00d.pdf Papaikou Development: https://www.standtogetherhawaii.com/ files/ugd/86fc0c_c2af52c8b3c645 bla6868a724eee8304. ddff A Hawaiian-born Kanaka revised the Collaborative Biocultural Stewardship which is in the plan. You can see it in the pdf below One: https://www.standtogetherhawaii.com/ files/ugd/86fc0c_0a1d5be8f 1d 140069415f7b691725786.pddf Part Two: https://86fcOcbd-8207-4076-85fa- 5a62e4e933b4.usrfiles.com/ugd/86fc0c_ecc498ba192d4a7689ebf31c3681 c2ec.pdf