HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0400.117 2002-2004 .~I~ Li,'J IiUU L,t} I I I ~.l .
August 27, 2004
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Fax: X61-8912
To: ~ Members
Haw ' ~ County Council
Fro Peggy Ratliff
Fax: 34-9631
Pho :329-6770
RE: Clifta's, Bill 178
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Augu~t 27, ao04
Fax: IHawaiii County Council Members Fax no. - 961-8912
Fmm Peggy Ratliff Fax no. - 334••9631
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To all members;
Pleasg do not override the nrzayor's veto an Clifto's Bill 178.
You xbust recognize and take ~eesponsibility for this. l cannot
say it~ better than the two recent editorials enclosed. There is a
solution.
I rec tly had the opportunity to help with the hiving at the
new heraton Hotel in Keauhou (the old Kona Surf Hotel).
Man of the applicants are currently employed on the Kohala
Coos . They are hoping to get a jab in Keauhou because of the
tz•affi on Queen Kaahumanu Hwy. Same of them will be
givin up many years of seniority.
Due o state and county inertia, it took over ten years to get
Held to comimit to an environmentally sound power plant at
Keah le. Why?
Please turn the corner and rise up above the fray and become
a government that moves in a positive way and does a good
job.
Thani you for your consideration.
and ,
Pe ~ ~tliff
73-4348 Laui St.
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740
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WEDNESaJ4Y, UST 25 , 20ti4 ~ WEST WAWAII TObAY
EDI'TpRIAL ~eaitt~il-iaabeeri: _
cbmpontiNedrby decades of ~ _ _
~ ~ gt~vwth and f9ilare of the state,, eonmy and developers..-
~T~~ w impro'ce infrastructure - at the expense of .
riesiden~ts' duality of life:
Rim has heard the chorus of concerns regardizrg
inadequate mods from Vest Hawaii residents-and
~ based his veto upon his pposition that CliRo's should not
lie approved until state tughway improvements
fronting the project area south of the Natural ~:nergy
~ Laboratory of Hawaii are complete.
Kim said Clifto's project assumes that phase two of
ayor H Rim has taken the right action ~ ~'~Y widening will occur before substantial
to his of the CliRo'.s Kona Coast buildout of the project.
` reaoni . Yit`est Hawari years ago could no `We must make sure that this amd future
longer rd to compromise its already development that will increase traffic are tixrred so that
overburdened infr cruse: Yet it did, until we have non-residential occupancy is tied to the widening of
arrived at today's tenable situation of gridlock that Qneen Raahumanu Higl#`way; Kim said.
has taken, a great II on the quality of life of those who The state DepatRmen of TYansportation said Queen
live in West Ha br must commute through it- Raahutn,4nu Highway'was at maximum capacity in
We can no for make that bad situation worse. X98•
Kim has demons d his veracity and taken action ' 8ixtr suggested ~ScnEnding rezoning Bill i7a with a
to back up his earl er rhetoric provision in respect to the ailowablencn-residential
mod, trees, (thRt,) no.>Sw7ding permit shall be issued until the
Kim recently sal his adzpinistration had adopted a con'struction.~aontcact for the plisse two widenng of
policy of eoncutrm cy, anon-binding (in the legal $ueen Ka~umanu Highway has been let."
sense) approaleh ' development that disallows growth ~ ;This, finally, is'sound planning,
in areas vhRhtSUt equate infrastructure or unless U'nforfunately, the County Council, which suffers a
infrastivc°ture is ' roved'eoncurrentwlth the majoa~ty of East Hawaii-oeeighted iuexnbers; cannot
developmentto re infrastrucnure adequacy. crotuprehend our ire. Governmenthas failed to respond
The County ell in the 199os coulii not pass to what can otrIy be coiled as ire crisis in
legislation that d have adopted cxincttrrency as 'Vest llawaii. So2Gie council membersr includ:'rg
law, jet as it has been unable to pass laws to stipulate 'Waimea dotit?ciltinaxa Leningrad `$larivnoff; have
impact fees.. as placed upon developers have already stated their intent to overtide,the veto.
been incoa8'istent d poorly defined, the burden on ~'e su@'er now because developers and government
infra.+ltiictureh~s creased steadily -without relief. have neglected ihevr responsibIIrty to the community to
The county has ntinued this practice despite its wmsure mfrastntcture is unproved. and. our; quality of
awareness of an. life is mot compromised.
infrastructure deft 't itt West i~ 'nVe have endured decades of unfi~IfiIIed promises to
Hawaii going b to tlse. tw}n'ove'rbads and to;~spond to existing with
mid-lgaos when t •Mmyor C,~wernanent has miser of Better and sound planning.
Dante Carpetater with {~~l to Tesponcl to Kim has ta3ten rhetoxic axrtl tranafoitned it into
Gov John Waihee ii his §ound planning.
department heads to outline ~'~'t taxi o~Y be The County Council,, if it has any true compassion fc
a what then vas ~ ~]ed an tlie''problem it has fostered.oveir the past decades, will
back off from its efforts to override the veto:
~ etnrer d , ~.4f sn., ~fr8structlu'e The ccimmunity~s overall quality of life ~ no ]tinge
hun. ~ A~<~i
dollars. ~ ~ . be sacrificed under the ktufe ofpoor pIannitig pxactiG
~e. i5s-the aiter~f individual prrr&t,
~ FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2004 ~ WEST HAWAII tODAY'
EbITORIAL '
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taken m ~'OViV WN'l4~!
' exposure grid in view of di4lre~rdh~ld bgthc
those whose quality of life
wr1llikelvvbecompromised aoouueclmajArilyofBona
C o s hire should thesiar_votaveto
overrjde succeed. l~e 1'i~(~S oFwesr
e ' ' by County Council Chairman James The admdnistration „
Azakald hear in ,Hilo an issue that is controversial should entertain the ITASVSn 1~1eII19C~9.
to West awaii and has little impact on East Hawaii suggu
Lion raised ai the
residents wrong.. time it. sought boixd
Arakald has p on the Sept 1 County Council agenda funding for a West Hawaii
the mayor's f
the 's Kona Coast pzoject, rather civic center: The County Council should be ornmpelled - by
than wait until a Sept.1 meeting and decide the issrole in law - fo convene as fi~rentlyin West Hawaii as it does in
Hone, before th pie o will be most impacted ifthis Hilo. That does not pzeclude meetings elsewhere, but halts
Project is a11o liefore there is adegnatt infrastructure I the habitual run-and-hide-in-H'~Io voting that the Clifto's
(roadway) to su rt the additional development. ,issue exemplifies.
Regardless of abr1ity td waive normal procedure sad The Hawaii County Planning Commission hear, West
place the issue ~ the ageuda sooner', as he has done, his Hawaii issues in a West Hawai{ venue, and East Hawaii
action.speaks vol es,abnut the diszegard held by the ! 'i issues there. Matters pertainuag to both sides are heard on
sound majority. Kona concerns and precisely the both sides. The Bound should !foAowsuit -and since good
residems of
West;Hawau tlremseIves. intention is negligible from the couacd, that procedure
V1Te have already gone on the record in support of the should be compelled by law
mayor's veto. The mayor's°veto message calls for amending The o!!-ated rift between East and West fiawaii is not
the rezoning Biz 78 with a provision °in respect to the something created by the residents of either side. It is made
allowable non-residential uses, (drat) no budding permit solidly .md increased regularly'by the actions of our county
shell be issued' the construction contract for the phase government
two widening of eeti Kaahumanu Highway has been let" e1 rift groins only so wide before full separation occurs,
,That makes se ; it doesn't say developer Cliff Morris that is a physical reality the council and county government
~ can't build, just, he has to do the right thing, and wait best mxognize.
until the mad support the increased burden. Keep in Chairman Aralcatd, zeconsidez your diseafranclrisement o
mind the state edt of Tt`ansportation said Qlreen West Hawaii's residents and reschedule your #ctioru -
Kaahumanu way reached capacity in iggs. whatever they may be - to the full light of a avenue.'