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DeVera, Ashley <br /> From: Deanna Wentworth < <br /> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 4:24 PM <br /> To: Planning General Plan <br /> Subject: General Plan <br /> Aloha Planning Department, <br /> The final draft of the Big Island general plan does not support the future of our Island, nor is it clearly <br /> defining its intentions. It clearly needs revisions. <br /> The current general plan is seemingly set up to further regulate and fine the public, limit travel, cluster <br /> people into dense housing and more. It has no conclusive plan to help communities prosper. <br /> The main structure of the plan is "Sustainability" when it should be "Innovation". Although we live in a <br /> country that is full of legal toxins we also live in a country with the most cutting edge ideas and <br /> innovations for farming and medicine and education and building ect. We want to move toward thriving <br /> communities, environmental support and economic alternatives that support farmers and homeowners <br /> and not put people in boxes while over-regulating them. <br /> This general plan you have is modeled throughout the United States/Mainland in communities just like <br /> ours and they use many of the exact same words like: cluster, stakeholder, buffer zones, change codes, <br /> amend and more! <br /> How is it possible that this General Plan for The County of Hawaii was created by the Big Island Planning <br /> Department when so many other General Plans around the country look and sound the same? <br /> Please review the attached PDF and revise the general plan accordingly. <br /> Mahalo Nui for your time and consideration. We appreciate you are trying to do a good thing and we have <br /> grave concerns about this "Final Draft" and hope you will consider revisions. <br /> Sincerely <br /> Deanna Wentworth <br /> https://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=G3KFe&m=3YOa1J131KX887a&b=7fDgKZSyXIJ3p4517GhHEg <br /> 1 <br />