HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-09-26 PL-INT-2024-008834 GP 2045 Draft Comments - C. Rohr DeVera, Ashley
From: Claudia Rohr <
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2024 12:01 PM
To: Planning General Plan
Cc: Planning Internet Mail; Surprenant, April
Subject: General Plan 2024 proposed content
Aloha- There is no good way to edit comments online, so I am repeating/editing some of my proposed
amendments to the proposed GP 2045 here that have been ignored. Please confirm receipt.
[Proposed Amendment, replacing the proposed content with:] CLIMATE CHANGE GOAL The people of Hawaii
have declared "a climate emergency."S.C.R. 44, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, 31st Leg., Reg. Sess. (2021). To ensure our
residents' right to a life-sustaining climate,the County of Hawaii adopts a primary goal to reduce carbon and
greenhouse gas emissions now, before the damage done to the environment is irreversible,through adopting a
zero carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, clean economy target and through incorporating equitable climate
mitigation and adaptation strategies and priorities into all policies, programs, infrastructure, and decision making.
OBJECTIVE 1
Ensure the County addresses our climate emergency and achieves the state carbon goal deadlines set out in
Chapter 225P, Hawaii Revised Statutes and S.C.R. 44, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, 31st Leg., Reg. Sess. (2021).
OBJECTIVE 2
Ensure that our county prioritizes and schedules the fortification of low areas in our roadways being inundated by
high tide and storm events as an equitable climate mitigation and adaptive strategy to protect our coastal
transportation infrastructure and corresponding water and sewer infrastructure therein.
[Proposed Amendment replacing/adding content:] POLICIES
1.1 Sequester more atmospheric carbon and greenhouse gases than emitted within the County as quickly as
practicable, but no later than 2045; provided that the County target includes a greenhouse gas emissions limit,to
be achieved no later than 2030, of at least fifty per cent below the level of the County's greenhouse gas emissions
in 2005.
1.2 Promote, encourage, and reward healthful modes of transportation such as walking and riding bicycles.
1.3 Promote, encourage, and reward the use of public transportation for everyone.
1.4 Discourage and decrease the use of private vehicles on our roadways.
1.5 Promote, encourage, and reward a healthful, locally produced whole foods diet for everyone.
1.6 Promote, encourage, and reward energy self-sufficiency for everyone.
1.7 Promote, encourage and reward affordable and subsidized housing projects that are energy efficient and that
use environmentally friendly and sustainable materials.
[Proposed Amendment, replace/add:]
PRIORITY ACTIONS
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1.a Reduce emissions that cause climate change and build energy efficiencies across all sectors, including
decarbonizing the transportation sector.
1.b Manage the County's fleets and buses to achieve the clean ground transportation goals defined in section
196-9(c)(10) and decarbonization goals established pursuant to HRS chapter 225P.
1.c Expand the schedule of Bike Lanes and Bike Routes on every qualified road and develop a standard for
pedestrian pathways on curbless streets.
1.d Where road right-of-way widths are insufficient to provide bicycle lanes, bicycle routes, and pedestrian paths
under the Code, paint bicycle and pedestrian symbols on the paved road shoulder to prioritize these forms of
healthful transportation, to provide notice to drivers of motor vehicles of the presence of bicyclists and
pedestrians, and to provide equal access along narrow roads to bicyclists and pedestrians with a low tech/low
cost solution.
1.e. Fortify coastal roadways and infrastructure therein as well as a developing a plan to move mechanical and
electrical systems out of low lying basements in county buildings now before inundated by sea level rise.
Claudia Rohr
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