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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Murashige, Laura <br /> <br /> From: KEOFF@co.hawaii.hi.us on behalf of KAPILAGO@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 8:18 AM <br /> To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> Subject: FW: Opposes Hawaii County Council Bill 246 SUBDIVISION CODE <br /> <br /> <br /> -----Original Message----- <br /> From: Donald MacGowan [mailto:macgowan@email.com] <br /> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 4:56 PM <br /> To: Pilago, K. Angel <br /> Cc: Yuen, Chris; Harry Kim; Isbell, Virginia <br /> Subject: Opposes Hawaii County Council Bill 246 <br /> <br /> TO: Councilman Angel Pilago Planning Committee Chairman, <br /> KAPILAGO@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> From: Donald B. MacGowan, PhD. <br /> re: Bill 246 <br /> Date: 30 April 2006 <br /> cc: Virginia Isbell, Harry Kim, Chris Yuen, Josh Green <br /> Councilman Pilago: <br /> Passing Bill 246 will do nothing to enhance the quality of life for Hawaii <br /> County taxpayers; in fact, it would serve to exacerbate the current decline <br /> in that quality. The County simply wishes to change laws it finds <br /> inconvenient simply to suit their agenda, not to better serve taxpayers. <br /> Sunday's West Hawai'i Today quotes Planning Director Chris Yuen as saying: <br /> "...people who don't want the changes proposed by Bill 246 are fighting all <br /> growth..." Once again (this time in the person of Chris Yuen) the County <br /> Bureaucracy are here to tell me what I think, like so much else they <br /> undertake, once again they get it completely wrong. <br /> Also, Yuen's statement is patently untrue and Mr. Yuen knows it; he simply <br /> seeks to marginalize and demonize opponents in an effort to neutralize <br /> them--a common, and cheap, political ploy. <br /> And yet once again Chris Yuen tries to play the fear card with taxpayers; <br /> his current dishonesty and dissembling with Hawaii County taxpayers ill <br /> serves this man who otherwise is known for being fairly straight-forward and <br /> honest. However, given the amount of unchecked and unbalanced power Bill <br /> 246 would give him, it's understandable that he's not exactly playing by the <br /> rules this time. Also, fearing his cushy satrapy threatened by public <br /> outrage at his attempted outright usurpation of power to waive, at will, <br /> environmental requirements, public hearing requirements, subdivision <br /> application information requirements, he trots out some outrageous <br /> falsehoods and misleading statements simply for their fear value. <br /> Why? <br /> Because once again County Bureaucracy was caught by the courts breaking <br /> laws, once again the County wants to change those laws to suit their agenda, <br /> not to better serve taxpayers. l Z S f <br /> Someone should make sure Mr. Yuen understands that the public outrage is not Comm. U0. <br /> about "fighting all growth", its about the County and developers ramming Ref. To: <br /> development after development down our throats regardless of public wishes Ref. pate <br /> t <br />