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DeVera, Ashley <br /> From: Cory < <br /> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 9:47 PM <br /> To: Planning General Plan <br /> Subject: comments on July 2024 General Plan draft <br /> COMMENTS ON GENERAL PLAN FINAL RECOMMENDED DRAFTJULY 2024 <br /> https://www.pla n n i ng.hawa i icou nty.gov/home/showpu bl isheddocu ment/308136/638597487229830000 <br /> GeneralPlan@hawaiicounty.gov <br /> from Cory Harden, September 25, 2024 <br /> I made detailed comments on the September 23, 2023 draft, raising concerns about <br /> waste-to-energy <br /> hydrogen <br /> "NIMBY" (not in my backyard) <br /> reducing the role of the Land Use Commission <br /> concurrency <br /> weakening requirements for cultural impact assessments <br /> Planned Unit Developments <br /> I believe other commenters raised similar concerns. But I do not see any acknowledgement of these concerns in the July <br /> 2024 draft. <br /> I also raised concerns about nuclear power and some forms of carbon sequestration. It seems these have been dropped, <br /> but with no indication of what was changed since September 2023, I don't know for sure. <br /> Unfortunately, Planning Department has not followed normal procedures while developing the General Plan.With the <br /> September 2023 draft, it took requests from the public before Planning provided most of the information needed to make <br /> informed comments, such as a PDF copy of the draft, a tool to compare 2005 and 2023 maps, and the rationale for 2023 <br /> changes to the 2005 General Plan. (And that rationale, unfortunately,was inadequate, since it did not reveal what 2005 <br /> content was left out of the 2023 draft.) <br /> In light of this, County Council should also be allowed to depart from normal procedures, and allowed to make <br /> amendments. <br /> Mahalo for the opportunity to comment. <br /> 1 <br />