HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0973.002 2004-2006
30 July 2006
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Mayor Harry Kim ~
County of Hawaii
25 Aupuni St.
Hilo, HI 96720
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Aloha Mayor Kim.
On behalf of the Ocean View Neighborhood Watch, we are very much in favor of the
Transfer Station site proposed by the volunteer Community Task Force headed by Nelson
Ho. The site is in an ideal location: can not be seen from any road, is located on the
extreme west side of the greater Ocean View area where prevailing trade winds carry any
smells away from any populated area, plus there are no objections from any properly
owners in that area One property owner in a subdivision far to the east of the proposed
site did object even though they would not be able to see or smell it.
The Ocean View Neighborhood Watch has 24 volunteers who are scheduled for both day
and night time patrols in our community. Over the last 10 years we have received
numerous reports about people dumping their trash in pukas in dozens of places and we
firmly believe that this would be greatly reduced if we had a transfer station in the Ocean
View area, instead of 12 miles away in Waiohinu (24 miles round trip). That could be 1
to 2 gallons of gas, or close to $3.50 to $7.00 at today's price of gasoline.
The population of Ocean View is growing very rapidly. From 1990 to 2000 it increased
by 124%. A recent survey made by myself and others identified nearly 2200 places of
residence in the greater Ocean View area, and that multiplied by 2.8, the States factor for
the average number of people in a house, comes out to over 6000 population. When all
13,000 lots in Ocean View have homes built on them, our population will be around
40,000. Please help us by approving the site proposed by Nelson Ho and his Task Force.
Mah~alo,
96b Barry, Coordinator
Ocean View Neighborhood Watch
cc: James Arakai, Stacy Higs, Peter Hoffman, Fred Holschuh, Donald Ikeda, Virginia
Isbell, Bob Jacobson, K.Angel Pilago, Gary Safaril, Nelson Ho, Marge Elwell.
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Ref. Date AUG 11 2006