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Tes-tirrbvtY September 7, 2006 ~,U SEP 7 RP} 10 Mr. Chairman and all members of the County Council, Aloha! I am here to testify regarding Bill 309, an ordinance amending the Hawaii County General Plan. I would support the proposed E-2 amendment if it were amended to mandate a 100 foot buffer within the "Shores of Kohanaiki" along its entire border with the Kaloko Historical National Park. I strongly oppose E-4. I won't go into history except to remind us all that in 2001 our County Planning Director initiated and advocated the "Open" designation for the DLNR Honokohau property. Over time, the community massively supported this re-zoning, and this very Council formally agreed with the Planning Director by re-designating this property as "Open" in February 2005. I prefer to not Sper..LilatP about the reasons for the proposed "Urban" re-zoning which was proposed as the sensible option, once the requested ]acoby hotel/resort was rejected. Currently, to those of us who are working on the KCGDP and who are looking, perhaps even more seriously and comprehensively, at the challenges which are already impacting West Hawaii and at those which must be avoided, the only acceptable designation for the DLNR Honokohau property is "Open". I strongly oppose F-2. While I, disu, could cite reasons why even a signed voluntary covenant guaranteeing that the Kealakekua property in question may nut, in perpetuity, be subdivided into lots smaller than 2 acres, Inadequately protects the island jewel which is the Kealakekua Bay, I believe that the only necessary reminder to this Council is that the only legally defensible designation for this Kona Coffee Belt land, is "Important Agricultural Land". Gordana Leonard 75-5784 Nele Place e Kailua Kona HI 96740y.~ Comm. No. ~b~• Ref. To: Ref. Date, ~J-r 0 20 TO 39Gd OON Z6999Z6 99:0T 900Z/L0/60