HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-09-24 PL-INT-2024-008688 GP 2045 Draft Comments - F. Kailikini DeVera, Ashley
From: Kalei Kailikini <
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 8:33 AM
To: Planning General Plan
Subject: Sept. 26, 2024 (Thursday) Hawaii County General Plan Testimony (written)
Aloha Planning Department,
The final draft of the Big Island general plan does not support the future of Big Island,
nor does it clearly define what you want to do. It should be revised or thrown-out and
redone.
The current general plan looks like it will further regulate and fine the public, limit
travel, cluster people into dense housing and more. It has no conclusive plan to help
communities prosper.
The main structure of the plan is "Sustainability" when it should be "Innovation". We
want to move toward thriving communities, environmental support and economic
alternatives that support farmers and homeowners and not put people in boxes while
over-regulating them.
The general plan you have is modeled throughout the United States/Mainland with the
exact same words like: cluster, stakeholder, buffer zones, change codes, amend and
more!
How is it possible that it was created by the Hawaii County Planning Department when
so many other General Plans around the country have the same language?
Also there are several issues that are potentially detrimental for the public/people such
as: 1. Oppose to parts of the Plan that attempts to give more powers to the Planning
Director; 2. All sections with the word "Amend" is potentially detrimental as we do not
know if those amendments will benefit the people, since there is no comparisons from
current codes to what may be amended. 3. Interfering with the peoples' rights to travel
is unacceptable as government has constantly eroded the peoples' rights defined in
the US Constitution using excuses that can be historically proven as outlined in the
Hawaii County General Plan; 3. Reference to native Hawaiian access rights - Page 111
"OBJECTIVE 17 Increase transportation connectivity. Policies 17.1" as a part native
Hawaiian & have seen the STATE OF HAWAII &the Counties in Hawaii constantly violate
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our rights. The wording in the General Plan is one sentence that starts with the word
"Ensure", There is nothing substantial, as I do not see any research for the past 100 yrs.
to all the violations against native Hawaiians' access rights in this Plan. One sentence
reflects no effort, no studies, no statistics, no solutions, no mention about what
"experts" will oversee &track violations. What monies did the native Hawaiians receive
for these violations?The very few areas native Hawaiians are mentioned are minuscule,
weak, &just an attitude of "why should we care?" 4. References to climate change is
offensive since you provide no proof,just words. There are thousands of scientists from
the late 1950s to the present unequivocally state "there is no climate change" they
even signed an Agreement. Changes in the weather are natural earth cycles a cleaning
mechanism for the earth. Since the Plan references "climate change" I demand
scientific proof for those claims & more details for "green". I know that is a business
model to make money&the government passes laws for "green" enabling companies
to sell "green". I do not want Hawaii County officials to be making false statements
over, &over again until a lot of people start to believe those false statements. I demand
clarification & proof of what you state in this Plan.
I believe this plan was not the product of Hawaii County residents who care.
Mahalo for your time &efforts as I believe you are good people. Please continue to be
that good person as we all need to depend on each other to survive. I am an older
person & I believe it is our job to protect our future generations.
Fay Kalei Kailikini
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