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Good evening. My name is ®ick Boyd. I am speaking for Kako'o. <br /> Tonight !want to focus your attention on the section of the General Plan dealing <br /> with North Kohala's economic future Pages 54 to 56 in your draft. With one <br /> exception we want to thank you for the additions proposed. <br /> The exception is your reference to the resort zoning at Mahukona. Your wording <br /> does not reflect the reality of the situation. It is very unlikely that a resort will be <br /> built at 141ahukona in the next 10 years. 1=first you have to realize that people in <br /> our community have been fighting for over 30 years to protect the public nature <br /> of the only place in our 29 miles of coastline where we can safely access the <br /> ocean. Because virtually nothing was done on the resort the first 5 years and <br /> only minor dirt moving was done the next 4, efforts are underway to call on the <br /> county to vacate the zoning. <br /> With court access cases, legislative resolutions, petitions, meetings and more <br /> meetings, we have called for an open coastline. even Chalon's own community <br /> participation committee advised keeping the Special Management area in <br /> Mahukona free from development. <br /> When the county ignored these strong public outcrys and granted resort zoning <br /> in 1993 one of our groups responded by suing the County, not Chalon, for <br /> ignoring it's own rules on environmental review and ignoring state review by <br /> approving this (show map) convoluted segmented 14.4 acres of land in a <br /> resort that would seriously impact 645 acres of shoreline land. Chalon chose to <br /> <br /> join the suit. The Supreme Court agreed with us on the need for Chapter 343 <br /> environmental review. Judge Ibarra recently threw out a less than 15-acre <br /> segmenting case similar to Mahukona. The irony is that if Chalon had agreed to <br /> do and CIS and undergo State land use review, they could have started <br /> construction 9 years ago. They didn't. They chose to fight the community. <br /> Since 1988 this company has a record of twisting planning regulations to avoid <br /> community review and public hearings exactly what they are doing now on the <br /> north coast with consolidation re-subdivisions. <br /> Now YOU know and I know that the bankrupt Chalon now called Sureity will <br /> never build a resort in Mahukona. They have been saying this themselves in <br /> print and at public meetings lately. if they sell the land, the new owners will have <br /> to right the wrongs committed by the County and Chalon --and face a much <br /> more organized community unified on the public use of this shoreline area. <br /> This is why it is important to modify the reference to Chalon is it Sureity? in <br /> <br /> the text and include under "courses of action" the phrase: <br /> reevaluate areas at ~49ahukona currently zoned f®r resort use. <br /> f ;FNv~ <br /> • <br /> ~s I~~t~ ~ ~ 1 g ~ <br /> _ _ _ _ _ <br /> <br />