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Aiello, Jeanette
From: Eoff, Karen on behalf of Pilago, K. Angel
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 8:57 AM
To: Aiello, Jeanette
Subject: FW: Proposed subdivision code changes - Janice Palma Glennie
Importance: High
-----Original Message-----
From: Janice Palma-Glennie [mailto:palmtree7@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 12:38 PM
To: Pilago, K. Angel
Subject: Proposed subdivision code changes
Importance: High
Aloha, Councilman Pilago and members of the Hawaii County Council Planning Committee:
It has come to my attention that changes are being suggested by the Planning Department to
the subdivision code. Overall, these changes are onerous and untimely.
1) The County appears to be consistently going at cross-purposes to itself since Octobet05.
Since that time, the community and consultants hired by the county have been working
diligently and in the spirit of aloha and optimism to create a Community Development Plan.
Meanwhile, the Planning Director and others of the administration have been recommending
approval after approval of subdivisions and rezonings. And now these changes to the
subdivision code are being recommended... all before the imminent completion of the CDP.
This is not only undermining any chances of improving land use planning for our county but,
more important, it is increasingly destroying the face of government and the hope for
democratic process to succeed on our island. Is this what our leaders really want for our
communities, and for themselves, their future, and their 'ohana?
2) These changes will significantly limit public control over their land use planning destiny
when the exact opposite is what is called for. Without legal recourse, the public will have
to accept the Planning Directors decision on subdivision rulings. How can this be considered
part of the democratic process, especially when the Planning Director is an unelected
official and when there is so much at stake for residents, the 'aina, local economy, and even
those who visit our state?
While so many more pressing land use issues face our county, members of this committee need
to join with Councilman Pilago to recommend that proposals for increased power of the
Planning Director be tabled indefinitely, especially in relation to subdivision approval.
Mahalo for your consideration of my views on this urgent matter.
Best regards,
Janice Palma-Glennie
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