COMM. 53.5 from S. Stoddard re Dist 4 & 5

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Eoff, Karen From: Scott Stoddard [davinci5 @mac.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:37 AM To: Rene Siracusa; Karen Eoff Cc: James Weatherford Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP screenshots Attachments: FDP. Pahoa. D5. Keaau. D4. Detail. pdf; ATT00019.txt; Commission Final Draft Plan all of Pahoa in D5 and Keaau in D4.plan; ATT00022.txt FDP.Pahoa.D5.Kea ATT00019Axt (97 Commission Final ATT00022.txt (662 au.D4.Detail.p... 6) Draft Plan al... 6) Rene /Karen, Attached please find the plan revisions suggested by James, along with a PDF containing detail views of the changes he is suggesting. 1'd like to go on record saying 1 support the changes he is suggesting for several reasons, although 1 won't be able to attend tomorrow's meeting. May 1 submit testimony in writing? If not, then consider these views an informal opinion offered at this late date, and again, mahalo to you both for your tireless efforts and hard work. The two main changes James is suggesting would put Kea'au primarily in District 4, and would put the bulk of Pahoa in District 5. 1 like these changes because they maximize the number of Puna residents that get to be in Puna districts. As we have discussed, the public has expressed an overwhelming preference for keeping communities together rather than bringing the districts in at close to the ideal population numbers. We know that Puna has 45,000 residents, which, if divided between two ideal districts, leaves almost 5,000 people in another district. Pushing the deviations of both districts to the maximum allowable will serve to reduce the number of Puna residents left out in the cold, as it were. 1 also like the idea of putting the two remaining towns in separate districts. Kea'au in D4 and Pahoa in DS. The draft plan as currently proposed puts Kea'au in D3 (not Puna!) and Pahoa in both, split right down the middle. Now 1 realize that these districts have little resident population, but they will become the hubs of commercial development in the next decade. Including Kea'au in D4 will allow the residents of HPP and Nanawale and Hawaiian Beaches and Leilani Estates to have a voice in how that town will expand and grow in the coming decade. And if Pahoa is split down the middle of the street, efforts to create a design district (currently underway) and control the flow of the commercial development there will not have to be coordinated between two offices in the council. Also, there is a minor technical issue with the proposed Kea'au boundary. It currently places the Shipman residence in an area of D4 that is cut off from the rest of the district, since Milo Road is the only route to the Highway. It would not be prudent to give Bill Walters grounds to bring legal action, even if he were not immediately inclined to do so. Please adopt these minor changes. It will make a great plan even better. Mahalo, Scott Stoddard (as an individual) COMM. 53.5