HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0493.123 2000-2002 P.O. Box 186
Pahoa, Hawaii 96778
20 August 2002
Hawaii County Council
Committee on Planning R'ECEIVEC'J
25 Aupuni Stret
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Re: 2002County of Hawaii General Plan
Dear Chairwoman, Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd & Members of the Committee:
Aloha! This comment is regarding the aspect of the district of Puna shoreline in
Opihikao.
I own a property that is zoned conservation. However, I am unable to acquire a permit to
build a simple structure for the future of my mo'opuna kuhikahis (Great Grandchildren).
The reasoning is that I am unable to afford the exorbitant fee for the conservation permit
which includes a consultant fee which is a private corporation. As a Hawaiian I feel that I
am being discriminated against being a Hawaiian in my own homeland. I believe that a
type of waiver system should be implemented in such cases as mine and my fellow
Hawaiians.
Native Hawaiians are the most impoverished of any ethnicity in Hawaii Nei.
The alarming statistics show that Native Hawaiians have the highest statistics regarding
poor health, education, drug abuse, divorce, child abuse, suicide, alcoholism and
incarceration.
Therefore, I implore the Hawaii County Council to amend the 2002 Hawaii County
General Plan, to help Hawaiians in their ability to live on the land. An exemption to
existing regulations in the case of Hawaiians is very much needed.
Hawaiians are an endangered species! As host people of this island I ask that necessary
amendments to the 2002 Hawaii General Plan will consider this `Catch-22 Situation',
which faces the Hawaiian people.
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A. Leilani Chow Cam. Noa •
Fiie Ido.
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Ref. Date BUG 2 2 2002