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<br /> Yahoo! Mail - hawaiiwuntycouncil~ayahoo.com Page 1 of 2 <br /> yAHoo.? M A [ L Print - Clcs== S'><i;a<low <br /> From: `COUnd! Testimony <munctltest€meny:!~co.fiavraii.hi.us~ <br /> ro: hawailmunty~~uncibmyahoaco~ <br /> Subject: FW: Support of BiII ISE <br /> Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 SE;44: 16 -5000 <br /> From: Bob Hunter [mailto:robert.m.hunter@hawaiiantel.net] <br /> Sew: Tuesday, May Oi, 2007 3:37 PM <br /> To: counciftestjmony@co.hawari.hi.us; Hoffmann, Pete <br /> Cc: Yagong, Dominic ;Ikeda, Donald ; Yoshrewto, J ; Higa, Stacy ; Naeole, Emig; Jacobson, Bob ;Ford, <br /> Brenda ; Pilago, K. Angel ; cohmayor@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> Subject: Support of Bill 156 <br /> Councilmember Pete Hoffmann, Chair <br /> Councihnember K. Angel Pilago, Vice Chair <br /> Hawaii County Council <br /> I strongly support Bill 156 concerning affordable housing. <br /> If the ordinance allows applicants to request that they be exempted from the affordable <br /> hn„sin~= requirement, the ordinance should set clear criteria for granting such exemptions. <br /> Fnr ezaisn,lc-; hew would an applicant establish "lower demand" or "sufficient supply?" <br /> How would lower demand or sufficient supply translate into "lesser requirements?" In the <br /> tllaft Hawaii CUUiity li]1Nd~tiCZ uiuif}ai}Ce (i;ONy dti3u~}rtl), 5[7oC€ iL iusi€cu:as a:r l,.z :r_- <br /> iii l.ii: eiS"a:il iii ii.:i:;tr:;uurreu ~iuiiiu~ ~u uteri uv::ty n}tpiiceru iiceicu ih~ ~atui:. i'[u~ appiua~n <br /> is fair and has withstood legal challenges. <br /> Also, what does the phrase "exempted State industrial Lands" mean? Under the <br /> Memorar}dum of Understanding (see paragraph IV.FI hetwee}: Hawaii Coe€€itE~ err}v rlie <br /> Derart,~,ent of Hawaiian Hoinc bands (l?HIII,1 and the staff me}nn exrrtaining it f;;cipi:~s <br /> attached), UHHL may decide on how to use its lands, but once a use is established, the <br /> R;iiiiP.Aii: '3iiiliC:'i i!i :i:C ;~%ii7i: fCi-iiiii::ii::ir c': :is irit i::r ii::l i:iilliC.i i.i i,ii; I3iirri ric: ._7:iii7i: ii <br /> G <br /> mean DHHL lands. Also, how would an "unequal competitive sihrahon" be translated into M <br /> a "lesser requirement?" <br /> rJ ~ <br /> 0 <br /> Iti4; renr8r, it is difficult to understand how exemptions would be recessar3r :vhen, as the N <br /> ?Tani}ii}j' viriCt:sr Cxplafi}S in Cvi}}iii. 1trQ.11, it }S i}vt nCCC53ai <br /> y' tv CriCi}}';t dCY~iL~i}'}inCniS !i} <br /> geo~aphical are:.s from the ordiua:}cc because the method calcu[at}on of the in-1}eu tee z° ~ <br /> ti?,l<es ware of geographic variations in medial} house prices and median incoi}}e levels and ~ ~ <br /> enSiire~ Thai aifnrdai~ie hnn.ino exactions fi-nm deg-einnerc ncenr where they are needed v <br /> Realizing that "politics is the art of tl}e possible," 1 hope that any exemption procedure float <br /> httn~lhes +tixx .y~p:€ vR€:nn Cnm!VnL~JhO:i'L~iI~C.'t)4X-1t1tJOYl~.~~Sn;,^i=~b!;,1 j~1u i~)uvi_1u~~7 vi_ 1 ~~>!JU / <br /> <br />