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From: Bob Hunter[robert.m.hunter@hawaiiantel.net]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 7:38 AM
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To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us; Hoffmann, Pete
Cc: Yagong, Dominic; Ikeda, Donald; Yoshimoto, J; Higa, Stacy; Naeole, Emily; Jacobson, Bob; Ford,
Brenda; Pilago, K. Angel; cohmayor@co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Support of Bill 114
Hawaii County Council Planning Committee
Councilmember K. Angel Pilago, Chair
The citizens of Waimea have been preparing for the South Kohala Community Development Plan
(CDP) process for two yeazs. As a part of the County's Community Readiness Program, the County
encouraged participants to undertake CDP pilot projects with broad community consensus. Just as
importantly, the CDP pilot projects are intended to given citizens experience in shaping the future of
their community.
The Waimea CDP Committee of the Waimea Community Association selected as a CDP pilot project
downzoning, historic preservation, and improving public access to a 420 acre State-owned parcel that
contain historically- and culturally-significant Waimea pu`u. Volunteers are working on the historic
preservation and public access aspects.
A critical and initial aspect of the project is to downzone the parcel to prevent future development. The
Waimea Community Association has been on record with its support for downzoning of the pazcel for
over 30 years. The County Planning Director has done a great job of documenting the significance of
the parcel in his rezoning application.
The community wants the County to create anon-conforming lot by setting the minimum lot size for the
parcel to be larger than the actual pazcel size of 420 acres. This action, which is allowed by State law,
would prevent even a single residential structure from being built on the parcel.
For example, an A-400a designation would prevent subdivision of the parcel, but would allow a future
land owner, Michael Dell for example, to build a residence on the parcel. An A-SOOa designation,
which is the designation the County Council requested be used in its Resolution No. 465-06, would
prevent subdivision of AND building on the parcel.
I am here to ask the County Council to change the minimum parcel size of TMK 6-5-001:020 to A-SOOa
in Bill 114. While creation of anon-conforming parcel is normally to be avoided, it is exactly what is
needed in this situation. Preventing construction, repair or reconstruction of buildings is the idea. I
hope the County Council can get a little creative in this unique situation.
I am on the board of directors of the Waimea Community Association (WCA), I am chair of its Waimea
Community Development Plan (CDP) Committee and the WCA asked that I be named to the South
Kohala CDP Steering Committee, which I was, but today I am representing myself. '
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Robert M. (Bob) Hunter, Ph.D., P.E. Ref. To: h~~
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7/9/2007
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