HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0163.007 2010-2012 FROM: Jim Spielman
PO Box 925
Na'alehu Hawaii 96772
TO: Members of the Hawaii County Council
RE: Resolution to hold all rezoning requests in the district of Ka'u until the Community
Development Plan is in place for the district of
DATE: April 19 2011
QUESTION ONE:
Given the enormous impact the approval of entitlements for existing unimproved
subdivisions will have on the price of land and , by default, its ability to then support
commercial farming: And given the challenges that unimproved subdivisions like
Hawaiian Ocean View Estates, with entitlements to build houses has caused the county:
And given the problems the county has experienced with the Hokulia development:
Will this moratorium include a freeze on granting housing entitlements for unimproved
subdivisions originally improved and intended solely for agricultural use?
QUESTION TWO:
What specifically happens to approval of entitlements for existing unimproved
subdivisions after December of 2012 if the County still has not put in place the
Community Development Plan?
The historical evidence supports the possibility that there still may NOT be a plan in
place by that date IF EVER.
Is there nothing this Council can do to move that process along in a way that listens to
and responds to the hundreds and hundreds of people who came out and talked story and
attended meetings to make sure their ideas would be represented?
AND why did we pay a consulting firm a huge sum of money and then dismiss them
because they were doing their job and listening to and representing the people of Ka'u?
AND why are we now , via county payroll, paying the very individual who hired the
consultants and then dismissed them to write the Community Development Plan which he
has been doing for months or should we say YEARS and in the process leaving a lot of
people very disillusioned.
AND you wonder why it is so hard to get people involved in the process of government.
Thank you for the opportunity to address the council with my concerns.
Aloha
Jim Spielman
COMM. No. / 63.7
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