HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0493.014 2000-2002 February 20, 2002 / V • ~ ; ~
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RL: County Council Committee on ~I,~i~n;;~i~~in~i'~ ®iscus~~the General Plan
Dear Ms. Leithead-Todd, ~ ~ ; _
I understand that you will be deferring discussion of the General Plan amendments at your
Council Committee on Planning meeting, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today. Instead, you plan
to hold several community rneedngs around the island in order to hear our concerns. i am
Ioolang forward to attending ~~hose meetings, especially the ones in Kona. Please try to
schedule these meetings in the early evenings so folks who work during the day wilt be able
to attend.
Some of my concerns about the General Plan, are listed as.follows:
1) °fr~e General Plan must have a Vision for our island home. Many Genera! Plans from
othe?' mainland counties are including visions. Visions provide direction.
2) The General Plan is full of a lot of unnecessary language and information, which
makes it difficult for the average person to read, It is worth the time and money to
hire an experk, like Bruce Tsuchada from Townscape, Inc., to clean up the document,
durr~p the garbage and simplify the language. Mr. Tsuchida is not only an
experienced planner but also an excellent writer. An exceptional example of his well-
written work is the, Waianae Sustainable Development Plan. I believe this "clean up
process" will not take as long as most of you thinka! since Bruce will know what
he is doing. Our final document should be something that we are proud of.
3) With Environmental OVoise being an ongoing issue in West Hawaii, it is essential that
the General Plan include a chapter on N®I.SE with solutions such as creating space
or buffers between noise generators (highways, schools, etc.) and residences.
®ur island is increasingly being paved aver to build more roads and parking lots in
order to accommodate our car addiction. The entire island will soon look lake one
more mainland hellhole. fibs General Plan needs to address this problem and
provide solutions ti`~at would encourage other means of getting from to
5) 1°he General Plan needs to quit trying to cram as many condos and homes into
Kailua-Kona. `Phis kind of planning will destroy Kona's character.
6) -The Gene~l Plan needs to do some serious planning of Flood Parks for West 4~lavvun.
I understand that Kailua-Kona isvdoorreed if a major flood were to occur.
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7) As unpopular as this might be, some serious thought should be given to a
ratorium on building cons~'uction in Wes€~ Hawaii until we have our Community
velop Plans in place.
Sa-.ever ,
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