HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0927.023 2004-2006
Aloha, my name is Ann Kern, and I'm a resident of Kahalu'u in Kailua-Kona. Although
the proposed six-month moratorium on West Hawai'i's development is apparently well-
intentioned, it appears ill-advised to me for two reasons. First, it delays worthwhile
projects that desperately need to proceed now, not later, projects like Hiluhilu and its
University of Hawai'i components. Second, a six-month moratorium imposed so that a
current planning process can be completed is poor politics, in my opinion, and I mean no
disrespect to my fellow citizens fortunate enough to have the disposable income and time
to participate in that process. The process itself is deeply, if not fatally, flawed because its
participants don't mirror the economic and ethnic diversity of our community and
because the model it's based on is an East Coast mainland suburban-urban template that
doesn't apply appropriately here on our outer island in Hawaii. Please don't impose this
temporary moratorium. It definitely won't do what's intended: it won't solve West
Hawai'i's difficult development problems. A delay won't make these problems go away:
it may make them worse.
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