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Page 1 of 3 Murashige, Laura From: fr8dog [fr8dog@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:14 AM To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us Subject: Testimony for 5/16-17 I wish to testify regarding a number of the items on your agenda for May 16 and 17 Bills 224 and 225 I am against allowing the Hilu Hilu Development / Palamanui to rezone 725 acres of ag land. There is no dispute that it will add to the already intolerable over use of our roads. Testimony at the last hearing showed that the number of cars it will ad would extend over 15 miles along Queen K. More fundamentally, as I testified before, it is just WRONG to run our society by depending on the patronage of the mega rich. Basically, they are bribing us with the prospect of helping to build educational and medical facilities, provide a few jobs and an inadequate amount of so-called "affordable housing "...these guys think 700,000 is affordable... and it is, FOR THEM! Education and Health care should be the responsibility of the community, THROUGH OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR TAXES. These rich mainland and --sad to say-- local land rapists come to our HOME and if we let them buy us, we are whores if the council agrees to it, I guess that would make them the pimps. Well, perhaps it's an off color analogy, but let me say that I think the people who have been here since long before the Kona Inn was a shopping center or before we even needed traffic lights have a right to be more than a little pissed off at the way our successive administrations have ruined the island lifestyle. To tie a couple of cliche's together, "You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube" but "when you're in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging"! No more so called development (i.e. construction and adding to the burdens on roads, water, land, schools, housing, electricity, etc, etc) until a real plan is developed to fix the problems we already have. The only long term solution is to build an economy and a society not dependent on booming construction. You, our leaders should guide us to place far more value on the preservation of a way of living that has enchanted visitors since right before they started ruining it than on the acquisition of unseemly wealth. And through your actions on the council, you should make it clear that those who merely want to make themselves rich at the expense of the land and the local people will find an unwelcome environment. This does not mean you have to be unfriendly to business! Aquaculture, agriculture, eco-tourism, Hawaiian studies, clean energy, environmental research, and much more will all create jobs and make people wealthy...just not the obscene and unnecessary megawealth of the land speculators and developers who court you constantly. I really don't think it will hurt Charles Schwab to DONATE his entire property to the community for a park and a university. He'd still be disgustingly rich, and he ought to do it as penance to the island he's already fouled so unforgivably. Bill 268 CHARTER AMENDMENT TO HOLD EQUAL NUMBER OF MEETINGS IN WEST HAWAII You know what's a disgrace? That this is even a battle! Ever hear of no taxation without representation? I've been against splitting the county, but if you won't even let this issue on the ballot, that will change my mind and plenty of others, I'd imagine. Enough said? Comm. No. 7(04) JD Ref. To: r1eseoto0 Q p RLf. 'Uo!: MAY 17 2006 5/17/2006