2024-02-28 PL-SMA-2023-000036 PL-SMA-2023-000038 Maki Morinoe Opposition Testimony

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From: Maki Morinoue To: LPCtestimonv Subject: Written Testimony Date: Wednesday, February 28,2024 9:28:48 AM Aloha Leeward Planning Commissioners I am a kama'aina of Holualoa ahupua'a and I am STRONGLY OPPOSING Agenda items #3 & #4. 1 have been testifying for a few years now, watching how things are getting passed through LPC and County Council. Also, the change in leadership in 2020 and the impact Zendo Kern has caused is a direct link to his conflict of interests with his former company, Zendo Kern and Associates, now known under the same leadership sans Zendo, Land Planning Hawai'i, LLC. Zendo re-released and undermined the Hawai'i State constitutional right for our lineal descendants who pushed our community concerns into contested hearing cases, stopping ALL DEVELOPMENT along Ali'i Drive until proper evacuation routes and sewage issues were managed. We are STILL overcapacity and unfit for development. After years of local community demands with epic failure to evacuate residents of Kailua- Kona, especially Ali'i Drive, and Kuakini, WE ARE STILL OVERCAPACITY AND NOT CATASTROPHICALLY PREPARED. We continue to echo the Police chief, who testified after experiencing several tsunami evacuations came to a complete standstill in traffic after actively evacuating residents and told people to get out of their cars and run for the hills. There were NO siren warnings. Sounds familiar? Lahaina is a dark, unfortunate warning, as we have warned County and Leeward Planning for decades. We are overcapacity, our sewage treatment plant is under litigations under the Clean Water Act, over tourism, water use restrictions, grossly lack open space cultural landscape, and we have created an over luxury-oriented offshore investors investments playground, including our parking lots they make money off this land. NO EVACUATION ROUTES, NO four-lane roads put in on Kuakini, overly gated up communities on the Mauka areas since the 1990s, and coral reef impacted and in terrible conditions. WE ARE NOT FIT TO BUILD. Instead, I demand a moratorium on luxury developments in Kona and a moratorium on hotels and vacation rentals for offshore investors. We continue to stress local communities by having to attend oral testimonies on the same issues regarding developmental activities and rezonings because our majority leadership cannot seem to vote in the right direction. Today marks an opportunity to start listening to community warnings. Lahaina disasters are man-made disasters. It is preventable, and it starts here in this room and with our County Council leadership.