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CHR. SIRACUSA: How about Waimea? Is there anybody in Pahoa?
<br />MS. LIVELY: Good morning Chair Siracusa and Commission members, no, we have no
<br />testifiers this morning.
<br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Then we can go on to one more testifier here, and that is Margaret Wille.
<br />Surprise, surprise; I think you are keeping as hard a schedule as we are.
<br />MARGARET WILLE
<br />(At this time Margaret Wille came forward to address members of the Commission.)
<br />MS. WILLE: I think I'm at the end of where I can be helpful. I have really three points that I
<br />would like to make. One is just a process suggestion; the Plan _40, and I submitted two slight
<br />variations of that today, and it has been worked on by people all over the island. I would suggest
<br />and really think it would be great if you could work from that map and work in where you think
<br />changes might be so that you are addressing it to what all of these different communities have
<br />suggested. You may have something better or different, but there are people, all communities,
<br />have had input from that perspective and can see the differences. I want to emphasize what the
<br />prior speaker said in terms of the future of this island. I think, in my view, we really need you all
<br />to look at these maps, not just from your district, but from the whole island. As I see it, the next
<br />ten years are critical; whether we are going to move towards sustainability, or sort of a corporate
<br />island that is not self sustaining, as independent. We need to encourage districts to, or
<br />communities to work together.
<br />I just want to be really clear what my agenda is. I have a very personal agenda, and reasons why I
<br />worked on that. That is that I really see keeping Waimea and Kawaihae, the whole watershed
<br />area, Puako, Waikoloa, together. It's not that they all get along, it's that they don't, often don't.
<br />It is that it is really important that they do, because of not their population issues, but critical
<br />issues of water. Whether it is Waimea has the water, Kawaihae doesn't, Puako doesn't. Water,
<br />the reef, water from my street, drains and affects the reef. The infrastructure, how is that by -pass
<br />going to be. There are all kinds of things. The CDP sort of started to bring us together, I just see
<br />it critical this year, that we work together. That is where I am coming from. I have tried to sort of
<br />work, looking at this plan - - -Say you took Plan _17 as it is right now. Plan _17 is great on a lot of
<br />the eastern side, it's bad, as far as I'm concerned, in Districts 7, 8, 9 and 1. If you start looking at
<br />it, let's just say, Council District 1, I feel it is really important that that be the ag, rural district. If
<br />you want to maximize those deviations, or if you went with Plan _17, you would cut District 1 in
<br />half and basically the rural Hamakua would become the tail end of a portion of Downtown Hilo.
<br />I did work on it, looking at it from these different communities. Chuck made a number of points
<br />to me last night including that there was a problem along Saddle Road. I think maybe he spoke
<br />with Commissioner Middlesworth. I tried to address that problem, which sort of added more
<br />population to District 2, where there is sort of the rural Saddle Road area, and that meant how do
<br />we adjust the other boundary of Council District 2 and also in District 9. Let me just say in terms
<br />of the two differences here, I tried to work that conservation area district that Chuck brought up,
<br />but it's in the same census block as the shoreline park underneath Hokulia and it would take that
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