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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Murashige, Laura <br /> <br /> From: Nancy [nlgm@hawaii.rr.com] <br /> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 10:28 PM <br /> To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> Subject: Council Mtg Oct 24 re: Bill 309 <br /> It is my understanding you are voting on Bill 309E-4 which proposes to change 300 acres of <br /> coastal property from open to urban. This change is to accommodate a hotel, marina slips <br /> and timeshares. <br /> As a registered voters we say NO. The county has to control development. It is necessary <br /> to grow as a community, but within the means to support it. Did you know that we currently <br /> have a four day fresh fruit/vegetable supply if we were cut off by some disaster or <br /> strike? Why, because it is going to the large hotels, not to the community. We need <br /> tourism to survive, but we also need to survive. <br /> Currently there are not enough employees to staff the existing hotels/ resorts. Why would <br /> you add more? An above average hotel has 1 employee per room, that's 800 employees-1700 <br /> timeshares 1 employee per 4 rooms, that's 425 employees and 800 marina slips, 75-100 <br /> employees. We are currently short over 1000 employees in our existing hotels, where are <br /> 1000+ more employees coming from and where will they live ...not in the 2 or 3 affordable <br /> homes being built. <br /> Then we have the road/traffic situation. Did you know we can't even get asphalt for the <br /> roads that have been approved? Now we're waiting to move utility poles that were installed <br /> even though the road project was in planning. No planning for the future. <br /> Regarding 309F-2. The legal stuff and the loopholes involved are just that. What is real <br /> is... <br /> I live in Kona town near the beach, do you know where our waste (poop, pee, bad water) <br /> goes? Into the ocean. Do you know where all the peoples waste above me goes? Into the <br /> ocean, sometimes it runs under our houses when it rains up mauka and smells really bad. <br /> Maybe we should work on this before Kailua Bay winds up looking like the Boston Harbor. In <br /> case you didn't know the water is black and the fish are deformed because of exactly what <br /> we are doing here in Kona, building without infrastructure. Of course they are trying to <br /> fix it <br /> now, but it's too late. The bay is black and the fish are deformed. <br /> Vote NO on 309F-2. Don't pollute Kealakekua Bay with more development above. <br /> Please consider our future when voting on these issues. <br /> r., <br /> Thank you. v> <br /> Nancy Ginter-Miller la <br /> Mark R. Miller C <br /> C : -i <br /> rV <br /> a _ <br /> Co <br /> N <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Comm. No. y Q <br /> Ref. a-Pse ~ <br /> 1 Ref. E) ate ti~ <br />