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Murashige, Laura <br /> From: leonie Caron [leoniec@earthlink.net] <br /> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 11:13 AM <br /> To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> Subject: Punaluu <br /> With all due respect... <br /> Please carefully consider the long reaching impact of this critical decision - not only <br /> <br /> 'for the specific area of Ka'u, but for the state of Hawaii and even the world! Once <br /> "development" is allowed to move forward, there is never any chance to turn back. Please <br /> consider the impact such development has had in other areas around the island... Can <br /> anyone remember the days before Princeville was the way it is now...? Look at Waikiki..., <br /> Maui..., Kona. Nobody wants to drive to Kona anymore because the congestion is so bad. <br /> Many more examples of rampant development can be seen on the mainland. Orange county, Las <br /> Vegas, Phoenix, even the little towns have all become mini-Irvine's - no character, <br /> nothing unique, same buildings, colors, plantings, all mediocre, everyone cramped together <br /> like sardines in a can. On the weekends everyone leaves to find someplace quiet and <br /> peaceful. Hawaii has changed. <br /> I remember when everyone who spoke to me said "aloha" - that word is hardly used anymore. <br /> The integrity that holds Punalu'u so special, unique, so sacred is being threatened. I <br /> often wonder why all those sugarcane fields aren't revitalized so the cane can be used for <br /> ethanol - which is already being done elsewhere in the state. I wonder if a bus transit <br /> system that has more routes (and runs on ethnol) would help the transportation issues. <br /> Why is it such a terrible thing to temporarily move to where the jobs are? 2 did that. <br /> All my family did that. My friends did that. we lived close to where we worked, some of <br /> us moved back - some of us moved on. Please, with all due respect, keep Ka'u sacred and <br /> honored. <br /> i <br /> .r, <br /> c_ <br /> ~i <br /> J <br /> Comm. No. 3 ~ . SOS <br /> Ref. To: <br /> Ref. Dote J(IN 4 <br /> i <br /> <br />