HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0729.001 2008-2010Re: Bill number 215
Aloha, Chairman Yoshimoto!!!
Aloha, Council Members!!!
Regards
tr uan t a trway, P sident
Plan to Protect Kona
PLAN TO PROTECT KONA
74- 5602 -A Alapa Street
Suite 725
Kailua -Kona, HI 96740
May, 4, 2010
Councilman Pete Hoffman has introduced Bill number 215 to the County
Council. If passed by the Council majority, the Bill would put into place a
Concurrency Program for the County of Hawaii. Concurrency is an
infrastructure finance policy implemented by communities across the
country designed to match public facilities with private development.
Concurrency requires developers to pay for infrastructure needed to
serve new urban land development.
Planning Director, Ms. Leithead -Todd, argues against concurrency saying
the County policy of fair share will deal with infrastructure inadequacy,
however, developers have a history of turning fair share into unfair
shares. 92% of the accessed fees remains uncollected, according to Fair
Share Annual Report submitted to the County Council earlier this year by
the Planning Department.
Most of us could support new developments consistent with the goals
and objectives adopted within the Kona Community Development Plan if
they paid the full impact of their use. We need concurrency because fair
share does NOT work.
Please vote for Bill number 215. It is a method to fund land for
infrastructure including parks and fire stations because without it, history
has shown that new development has created greater and greater
shortfalls in the infrastructure and services needed to serve them.
Comm. No. 72q,
Ref. To: P1 PC-
Ref. Date MAY 0 4 2010