2011-06-13 Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Preservation Commission Minutes

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PONC listing of `O`oma II Re: June 6, 2011 Aloha, in North Kona was prepared in a joint effort by two grassroots, community groups, the Kohanaiki `Ohana and well as thousands of other citizens have used their voices and pens for over two decades to convince lawmakers and various owners of `O`oma that development is unsuitable there and that measures to insure its complete and unalterable protection from development are urgently needed. reiterate by listing those reasons as to why `O`oma is so important as environmental, spiritual, cultural, recreational, economic, and social. Under each of those is a plethora of specifics which have been re-hashed in far too many land use proceedings. Those n as development has gobbled up and made unrecognizable what used to be seemingly infinite and untouched open, coastal space. The State Land Use Commission, in its wisdom, has consistently agreed that `O`oma is unsuitable for development both in terms of the loss of its Conservation protections as well as the inherent dangers of developing property in the flight path of a burgeoning they made over a decade earlier. U from putting forth more development plans, and subsequent owners have never wanted to accept the limitations of the entitlements that came with the purchase of that Conservation-designated land. This is a significant reason why the public has petitioned acquisition by reinstating `O`oma II to the top of your priority list. We do not know if O`oma is for sale today, but it may be available as soon as one month position, we would like the County to be ready to take meaningful steps at representing its residents by helping to stop what seems to be never-ending and increasingly costly fights over this land and to secure it, once and for all, by purchasing it through Open value so low and with the prices of land lower now than they will be once another economic boom hits our island.