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To: Clerk, County Council of From: Denys Lynn Temple
Fax 961-8912 Home Telephone 808-965-7139
Date~me: 1/2/2007 1:12:12 PM Fax 808-965-7139
Subject: Testimony Pages: 3
Note: Attached is teitimony I would like put before the Council at its January 4, 2007
meeting.
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County Council of Hawaii
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Re: Bills 220 and 221
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To the Honorable Members of the Council:
1 am writing in opposition of the request for the zoning changes in Bills 220 and 221, and
urge you to vote "no" on both bills.
Before you is the findings of the Planning Commission which recommended this not be
approved for reasons of safety and the fact that the Planning Department has had a policy
for not allowing the area along Highway 130 from Kearau to Pahoa to be opened t'or
commercial use end the building of strip malls. W e applaud the Commission's and
Director Yuen's Endings on this for several reasons, the safety factor of traffic along
Highway 130 being only one of them.
My opposition to these bills is also based on:
1. 'fo pass these bills would set a precedence which the people of the Puna azea have
repeatedF~ requested not be set and prior Council's have seen fit to both
acknowledge and uphold. I ask the same of this body.
2. The economic impact of strip mall development on both Pahoa and Kea`au, both
economically distressed villages, would be disastrous.
3. While the safety issue was mentioned above it is much too important an issue to
be left out of this list of concerns. The traffic on Highway 130 has increased ten
fold in repent years and number of accidents right along with the amount of
traffic. To add yet another impediment to the free flow of traffic on Highway 130
until such time as safety issues and concerns can be worked out with the state
only increases the greater risk of mounting injury and death to an already overly
high number.
4. The new fire and police stations plans called for them to he placed on Highway
130 in order to increase their response efficiency. To allow this development as
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well as future development nullifies the intent of the move and increases jeopardy
to our police, fire, and emergency medical responders.
5. The fact that this bill allows for the building of storage units does not prohibit the
properly owner from selling the land at a future date to another developer such as
WalMart or Costco or an industrial entrepreneur, and
6. The CDP plan which is being developed for the Puna area specifically denies
economic development along Highway 130. As this is the will of the people who
reside in the area it should most definitely betaken into consideration.
Again, I urge your "no" vote on Bills 220 and 221 on behalf of the people of Puna.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely
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Denyse Lynn Temple