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From: richard bodien
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 9:43 AM
To: Council Testimony
Subject: Reject General Plan Final Recommendation DRAFT 2
Aloha, Chair Dr. Holeka Inaba and Council Members,
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Communication 327.001 contains "Final Recommended Draft July 2024,
DRAFT 2" ("DRAFT 2"), incorporating both non -substantive and substantive
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amendments to "Final Recommended Draft July 2024" forwarded to the council in
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Communication 372.00.
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For example, DRAFT 2 includes substantive amendments to the Final
Recommended Draft General Plan 2045 Land Use Map, changing the land use
designations of thousands of parcels. These amendments were proposed during
the Planning Commissions' General Plan review by "Director Darrow Recommended
Amendments to Final Recommended Draft General Plan 2045", dated February 18,
2025. Seethe Director's substantive amendments changing the land use designations
of thousands of parcels, included in Communication 372.00, pages 32-90.
General Plan, §16.1 COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW prohibits the council's
consideration of certain amendments at this stage, including land use map
amendments that change a land use designation of a parcel, as part of the ongoing
comprehensive review. Land use map amendments shall be processed as a new
interim amendment pursuant to §16.2, as a matter of law, as follows:
§16.1 COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
(10)The County Council shall review the amendments submitted and
the separate recommendations of the Windward and Leeward
Planning Commissions and adopt an amended General Plan. The
County Council may make modifications, deletions, or additions to
the proposed amendments as it may deem necessary, within the
general intent and subject matter of the proposed amendments, in
accordance with its rules of procedure. However, any County
Council change to a proposed amendment which substantially
changes the general intent or subject matter of the proposed
amendment, such as newly adding or deleting a goal, policy, or
course of action, or standard, or a map amendment which changes
a land use designation of a parcel, shall be considered an entirely
new proposed amendment. Such a new amendment proposed
at this stage shall not be processed as part of the ongoing
comprehensive review, but shall be processed as a new
interim amendment pursuant to Section 16.2. Comm. Z•l�
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DRAFT 2 should be totally disregarded. The council must follow the law and
only make modifications, deletions, or additions within the general intent and subject
matter of the "Final'Recommended Draft July 2024" as it may deem necessary, and
which do not substantially change the general intent or subject matter, or newly add
or delete a;goal, policy, or course of action, or standard, or a map amendment which
changes a land use designation of a parcel.
If the former Planning Director's "Final Recommended Draft July 2024" is so
deficient.as to require thousands of amendments, the council should not waste
everyone's time. The council should propose a motion to reject the plan and its failed
process and start over. Public testimony has overwhelmingly opposed not only the
process, .but the content of the "Final Recommended Draft July 2024."
Sincerely,
Richard Bodien
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