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From:
Janice Glennie <palmtree7@hawaiiantel.neb
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022 3:02 PM
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Subject:
Sunshine holdings(PL-REZ-2022-000032)
Agenda item #2 Sunshine Holdings
Leeward Planning Commission, 9 AM Thursday, October 20, 2022, West Hawaii Civic Center
Aloha Commissioners,
This application is a good example of why it's important for planners and elected officials to be able to
address the issue of old, latent applications in a timely, modern manner rather than allowing them to
linger for decades before they rear their ugly heads with their owners hoping to move forward with a
project like it was yesteryear. Many projects that seemed okay back then aren't appealing, sensible, or
worthy of approval now. In fact, some are quite the opposite (aka potentially damaging). Reasons for
this can be lack of supportive infrastructure, destruction of native species once thought to be resilient
but now known to be threatened, cultural sites and activities discovered where they weren't seen or
noticed, a new understanding of the value of keeping agriculturally viable lands free of development so
that they can provide food and sustainability for island residents, new planning paradigm based on
Smart Growth. The list goes on.
This project seems to hit all the warning bells.
Without full clarification and justification of why this project would be good for more than the
developer, this applicant should be required to go back to the drawing board.
Mahalo and sincerely,
Janice Palma-glennie
Kailua-kona
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