HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0208.079 2004-2006 PLAN TO PROTECT KONA
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Re: B!II 78 5/18/B5
Rloha, Council Members!!!
Plan To Protect Kona is a 5B1c3 organization farmed to encourage
land use and economic development decisions that retlect Sustainable
Development and Smart Growth policies. Bill 78 provides a missing tool
the County needs to advance Smart Growth policies.
Recently, 28 governors of both political parties dedicated portions oT their
speeches to growth-management issues including land and open space
preservation. Preservation, of course, includes both land purchase and
regulation.
While our new General Plan and the Community/Regional Plans about to be
develop will provide needed regulation, we need fSS for land purchase.
Bill 78 will allow purchase of open coastlines, natural areas, cultural sites and
agricultural lands that are critical to Rawaii's economic, cultural, and
recreational well-being.
Plan To Protect Kona fully supports Biil 78 as it allows an effective and much
needed tool
Yours,
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Duane D. Erway )
PS
! t is totally appropriate and legal for a small percentage of our budge! be
dedicated to land conservation. The state currently dedicates approximately
1/2% of the CIP budget on the arts.
We need at least S2m/yr to get anything meaningful preserved. That is not
likely to lower of our bond rating, as some tear, because bond rating is based
on amounts we have borrowed versus the percentage of income we have to
repay debt. By all standards we are doing very well in this area.
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