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10/30/2019 Gmail-Resort Designation at Mahukona-draft General Plan 2040
Mmail Fredrico Cachola<fredcachola@gmail.com>
Resort Designation at Mahukona - draft General Plan 2040
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Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 8:55 PM
To: GeneralPlan@hawaiicounty.gov
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Aloha Planning Director Michael Yee and other County officials working on the draft
The resort designation for Mahukona must be removed from the Draft General Plan 2040 for several very significant
reasons.
1. The zoning for that resort"is no longer in effect", according to a Planning Department letter to the current owner, a
pension fund in Canada,which acquired the land from Kohala Preserve Conservation Trust in foreclosure in 2012. The
current zoning of the land is agriculture. So how,when and why did your planning group continue to designate Mahukana
as a Resort and Low-Density Urban designation. At a Speakouts meeting at Kohala on Sept. 25- Planning Director
Michael Yee said he is getting "lots of political pressure"to maintain that resort designation. Who is applying that
pressure, Mr.Yee? You can not maintain the resort designation because of political pressure. The Kohala community
and indeed the entire constituents whom you serve in the County of Hawaii deserves an answer. The pension fund in
Canada and the Morrison Grove holding company in Florida who was hired to dispose of the property can not dictate the
use of land in Kohala.
2. The wording in the new General Plan describes six requirements on how decisions are made for the plan. None of the
six requirements were met in designating Mahukona as a resort area-such as 1)Must be consistent with the CDP's-not
so,the North Kohala Community Development Plan (NKCDP)calls for the County to use the 2%Open Space Fund to
purchase the 434-acre private land between Mahukona and Lapakahi. How can the officials working on the draft of
General Plan 2040 operate completely independently of their own rules and so blatantly in direct opposition to the
NKCDP. Is the County Planning Department begging for a lawsuit to challenge the actions in designating new resorts in
undeveloped coastal area-like Mahukona?
3. Mahukona is a cultural/historical gem that needs to be preserved. I was born and raised in Kohala, I am a retired
educator from the DOE and the Kamehameha Schools and I live in Kohala.-Kohala is my Kulaiwi (land of my ancestors)
I am a Kohala kupuna, (84 yrs.old)and direct a Kohala preservation project sponsored by the North Kohala Community
Resource Center-"Malama e na Wahi Pana 0 Kohala" I visit,and continue to study many cultural/historical sites in the
434 Mahukona area that have significant religious and cultural significance to kanaka maoli- Hawaiians. My project is
one of five community groups that are in the process of funding the purchase of private coastal lands to open space. Our
five groups recently assisted the County Parks Div.to acquire 1.4 million dollars from the State Legacy Land funds. We
would be pleased to work collaboratively with the County Parks to acquire the Mahukona lands for conservation,
preservation and continued recreational use. Besides, Mahukona is Kohala's favorite fishing, camping,swiming area- I
earned so many of my Boy Scout merit badges at Mahukona-like cooking, hiking,trailblazing, swimming, etc.
Mahukona may currently and legally belong to the group in Canada- but in reality, Mahukona has belonged to Kohala
citizens/residents for many generations. Mahukona can not be a private resort area-it means too much to too many
people of Kohala and the County of Hawaii and the rest of the world.
Lele o Kohala me he Lupe la (Kohala soars like a kite-Hawaiian proverb describing how Kohala's people overcome
problems and adversities),
Me ke aloha pumehana,
Kohala Historian/Kupuna
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