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From: Maki Morinoue
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2022 4:14 PM
To: Council Testimony
Subject: Written Testimony Bill 112
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Aloha County Council Members,
1 am testifying against Bill 112. 1 do not support the passing of this bill.
My name is Maki Morinoue and I am from Holualoa, County district 7.
It raises questions and concerns I have for many shoreline development and the continued economic
development encouraging transient residents and over tourism at the forefront of its agenda. Although I
am not a Waikoloa resident, I grew up here and frequent the shorelines along Waikoloa and have seen first
hand the manipulative tactics towards developing these areas where No means Yes and Yes means No
with the famous protest against Hapuna Prince Hotel and more since the 80's and 90's.
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This development clearly supports the continuation of increasing tourism, transient residents and offshore
investors during the time our community voices over tourism issues, natural resource concerns, cultural
impact and the extreme lack of affordable housing. It also doesn't mention being catastrophically prepared,
addressing climate change and the rising of our ocean. This has a clear domino effect in water usage, our
food purchasing behavior and increased compost in our landfill. It fosters volatile buying behavior in our
food market when we import 90% of our food to the island and directly impacts increased compost in our
landfill generating more methane gas and single use plastics.
This rezoning would increase water usage by thousands of gallons per day, in a very dry and hot E
location. An estimate for daily water usage for a 1 to 2 bedroom apartment averages 3 to 5,000 gallons of
water a month, and 3 to 4 bedroom homes 5 to 8,000 gallons per month.
The total units combined are 900 timeshare units + 264 multifamily units + 25 single family units + 140
affordable rentals for workers = 1,329 units
This increases water usage here 5,000/1,329 = 6,645,000 gallons of water used a month and an
estimated 221,500 gallons of water per day.
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The real red flag is the trade off mentality of"grant me this rezoning, and I will donate this much to charity
and build this for you". An estimated $45 million dollars towards an endowment that Waikoloa Land
Company created naturally benefits as a tax deduction through their own Waikoloa Foundation. The
Hawaiian trails and anchialine ponds need to be protected by law and it is their Kuleana to uphold this
sacred area they have developed on or near. I question this intent as the foundation feels like an
opportunity to use our culture as a marketing tool to benefit their business and would love to hear from
local residents around the support they have received from this foundation and what they would use these
enormous funds for and if the Waikoloa community is in support of this trade off. Are the board members
getting paid to sit on this Waikoloa Foundation and what impact do they bring to the local community? Is
their foundation Waikoloa centric or are they advocating for great charitable work being done for our island
as a whole? The interest annually accumulated alone is a fair amount.
Our local residents growing up in Waikoloa have to deal with the RRR which stands for Recognise,
Retreat and Report because the US Military left Waikoloa's private and public lands littered with
undetonated bombs. *maps attached. Will this endowment support the safety of these residents?
I find this informational sheet lacking important details around "affordable housing" for workers. What does
it actually quantify in numbers and terms? The word lease tells me these affordable housing is not offered
for sale for our workers. Is this resort dedicated to hiring local residents or are they flying in workings from
the mainland like other resorts do.
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Myself as a kama'aina resident on the edge of displacement have witnessed in our Leeward Planning
Commission and County Council meetings the developers misuse of the word affordable housing to
manipulate and encourage the passing of rezoning towards offshore profits for the highest bidder. So I
would like to see numbers, terms and the word in perpetuity become a common practice in affordable
housing conversations well before it reaches County Council votes. As this comes up for voting it is too
late to understand the full scope of one's intent and a decision is made hastily.
So in preventing this from moving forward. I ask you to please reject this rezoning. It does less
damage as a golf course. I also ask that any golf courses should never be on the table for rezoning
towards housing structures and begin to act as a placeholder for future massive residential developments
like this one.
This does not support our state motto Ua Mau ke Ea o ka 'Aina i ka Pono, the life of the land is perpetuated
in righteousness.
Mahalo for your time and deep consideration.
Maki Morinoue
Holualoa
96726
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