HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0067.037 2006-2008
TO: Hawaii County Council Members
FROM: Nancy Cabral, Citizen of Hawaii County
DATE: January 19, 2007
RE: Council Bill # 345
I am writing in opposition of Council Bill #345. I am not writing in opposition of Group Homes. I am
asking you, the County Council, to do your job and take care of ALL the citizens of Hawaii County.
This bill is a zoning change that will greatly affect the density on individual house lots throughout our
County. Density changes aze so important in our zoning code that they can not be changed with a
Zoning Variance, but instead require a Special Use Permit.
I ask that you, the Council, recognize the importance of density and NOT PASS Council Bill #3345. I
ask instead that you, the Hawaii County Council, not a Honolulu or state agency, consider streamlining
the process of the Special Use Permit for Group Homes and all other similaz projects.
You, the Hawaii County Council, are all powerful. You are capable of doing the right job and not just
a rushed job to satisfy a few groups that are headquartered in Honolulu. Have our County Planning
Department take a hard look at the process now required for Special Use Permits and clean them up.
Are all of the details necessary? What affect on the positive growth of our County do these "standard"
requirements have?
Right now we ALREADY have a Group Homes with five clients and caregivers in Condominium
Townhouses where shazed water, sewer, pazking and walkway use aze causing an unfair increase in
cost to non Group Home owners and a reduction in the quality of life for other residents because of the
excessive burden the increased density is putting on common services.
We ALREADY have one street with two Ohana homes on one lot with ten clients and an unknown
number of care givers in the two homes. PLUS, 6 houses awa, we have a another lot with two homes
(Ghana) which is now in escrow to become a Group Home and a third property, two more lots away
with another Ghana property that is being considered for purchase by the initial Group Home operator
from Honolulu. WE WILL HAVE 60 people within one block of nine houses living, parking, talking,
walking, using the bathroom (with no County sewer systems), receiving deliveries, etc.
PLEASE THINK about what this MAJOR change in density will do to our community. Do not let
Honolulu or any state agency take control of our neighborhoods. Do not assume the State Health
Department will oversee these homes in a manner that is benefiting our community at large.
I ask that Group Home providers come and see me at Day-Lum Rentals & Management. Right now I
have THREE properties that are properly zoned for greater density and would be excellent for Group
Homes. No one from Honolulu with these agencies has ever applied with my firm. They just testify to
you that no one will rent to them. Now who is the crybaby? n
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