HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-09-25 PL-INT-2024-008751 GP 2045 Draft Comments - C. Harden DeVera, Ashley
From: Cory <
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 9:47 PM
To: Planning General Plan
Subject: comments on July 2024 General Plan draft
COMMENTS ON GENERAL PLAN FINAL RECOMMENDED DRAFTJULY 2024
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from Cory Harden, September 25, 2024
I made detailed comments on the September 23, 2023 draft, raising concerns about
waste-to-energy
hydrogen
"NIMBY" (not in my backyard)
reducing the role of the Land Use Commission
concurrency
weakening requirements for cultural impact assessments
Planned Unit Developments
I believe other commenters raised similar concerns. But I do not see any acknowledgement of these concerns in the July
2024 draft.
I also raised concerns about nuclear power and some forms of carbon sequestration. It seems these have been dropped,
but with no indication of what was changed since September 2023, I don't know for sure.
Unfortunately, Planning Department has not followed normal procedures while developing the General Plan.With the
September 2023 draft, it took requests from the public before Planning provided most of the information needed to make
informed comments, such as a PDF copy of the draft, a tool to compare 2005 and 2023 maps, and the rationale for 2023
changes to the 2005 General Plan. (And that rationale, unfortunately,was inadequate, since it did not reveal what 2005
content was left out of the 2023 draft.)
In light of this, County Council should also be allowed to depart from normal procedures, and allowed to make
amendments.
Mahalo for the opportunity to comment.
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