2025-03-05 Rebecca Melendez Tesimony

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From: Rebecca Melendez To: LPCtestimonv;WPCtestimonv;cdoCglhawaii.gov;Planning General Plan;Villegas,Rebecca;Kimball,Heather;Kagiwada,Jennifer;Onishi,Dennis;Kierkiewia, Ashlev;Kanealii-Kleinfelder,Matt;Galimba,Michelle M.;Inaba.Holeka;Hustace,James Subject: Please stand with YOUR community and vote UNFAVORABLE on the 2045 General Plan Date: Wednesday,March 5,2025 3:14:39 PM Attachments: imaae.gno Unclear General Plan.doc Aloha Council Members, Why are you continuing to favor this plan when the community is clearly opposing it? This petition Opposing the General Plan has almost 200 signatures and is growing https://www.change.org/p/we- onnose-hawai-i-planning-department-s-2045-general-plan-we-stand-for-a-new-director.This is almost the full size of your chambers. Please start standing with the community and vote UNFAVORABLE for this General Plan because YOU are supposed to support our voices.Continuing to vote in favor of this General Plan when 100%of the community at the meeting and I'm sure emailing you are OPPOSING this plan,is showing signs that you are being paid off and this is a serious offense. The average citizen cannot understand most of the plan because the County Planning Department has disrespected our community by writing a General Plan that is so vague and extremely unclear.I feel they did this so they would be able to change meanings later. The plan does not fully explain their"Ordinances,Impact Fees,Ordinance Fees,Regulations,Master Plans"...All they do is mention these,but they offer no explanation of what they mean.The community has a right to fully understand what all of these mean.Where are their full explanations,since they want to implement more fees and more regulations? The County Planning Department has extreme changes in it's General Plan? Has there ever been a plan with this many changes? Has there ever been a plan that has so much overreach in control/power? Can the council keep past General Plan's instead of this one?Because this plan is so extreme in changing Land Use Titles,putting in a lot more Regulations,Ordinances,a Smart Grid,and Broadband that the island doesn't need,and completely changing the way we live on island. Does an Island really need will under the roads?This is what their Smart Grid would do.Does an Island really need Broadband? 35.i Develop best management practices for the development and maintenance of golf courses in collaboration with government,private and nonprofit agencies,and other stakeholders. Why does the county want to develop more golf courses when we need to stand up and help save our corals. Golf courses use a lot of poisons to keep their lands weed-free,and these poisons runoff into the ocean,causing algae blooms and other pollutions. "Coral Bleaching is occurring more frequently in Hawai'i.Across the Hawaiian Archipelago,coral bleaching has increased in frequency and severity since 1996.The last major bleaching event in 2014-2015 had catastrophic Impacts state-wide... This was the third major bleaching episode in Hawaii over the last 6 years.The frequency of these events is unprecedented in the archipelago.NOAA scientists and partners have determined that the key drivers of the bleaching were environmental factors (such as heat stress,depth,and surface light)and human impacts(sewage effluent and urban run-off)." https://www.fishe rie s.no aa.gov/fe ature-story/cautionary-tale-2019-coral-ble aching-event- hawaii#:—:text=Coral%20Bleaching%20I s%200ccurring%20more.had%20catastrophic%20impacts%20state%2Dwide "Damage to the Hawaiian corals is"widespread,"especially in areas,such as bays,where there is limited water flow and temperatures heat up quickly,DeMartim said." https://abcnews.go.conv US/hawaiis-coral-reefs-peril-researchers-restore-coral-ecosystems/story?id=101486998 `Strong Correlation'Between Overtourism and Coral Reef Degradation