HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0067.003 2006-2008
Testimony against Bi11345-City 8c County Hawaii County Council Meeting January 4,
2007
I am against Bi11345 which amends the definition of "family" to include a group of not
more that eight unrelated persons, plus staff living in a licensed facility or certified by the
State Department of Health.
The word "family" according to accepted usage and the Webster Dictionary means
related persons or persons of a common lineage. When we refer to "family" as unrelated
persons aze we saying that a family of birds nesting includes a dove, mynah, parakeet,
owl and hawk.
My second point has to do with our rights as citizens living in the community, in our case
a residential association, losing our power to determine our own destiny.
I lived on Oahu for 45 years in condominiums projects as I could not afford to purchase a
single famiiy home. All of the condo have restrictive convents known as CC&R
(Condition, Covenants & Restrictions} The CCBcR was very effective in providing for a
safe, comfortable and pleasant living environment as the owners association was
empowered to enforce the CC&R against owners/tenants violating the restrictive
convents.
My wife and I, seven years ago, contemplating retirement decided to return to our birth
place on the Big Island. We purchase a vacant lot in the Keaau Ag Lots due to this
project had an established Owners Association with CC&R We grew up in the
Plantation Camp environment with single men and related families, The Camps proved to
be a place which we lived in harmony, safety and trust with all ethnic groups.
I recommend that the City Council-City & County of Hawaii enact slaw/ordinance that
Owners Associations/Neighborhoods be given the right to approve or deny any
Application to the State of Hawaii Department of Health for any Care Facility in their
effected area.
In closing I ask the City Council to give us taXpaying, voters living on the Island of
Hawaii our basic rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Submitted By:
Hiroshi Kozohara
P.O. BOX 52
Kurtistown, Hi 96760
Comm. No. ~ 7.
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Ref, date -JAN 2UU