HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-09-26 PL-INT-2024-008848 GP 2045 Draft Comments - Kevin Hill DeVera, Ashley
From: Akuakea <
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2024 12:07 PM
To: Planning General Plan
Subject: Kevin Hill Testimony
1. I, and many of my friends living in this county object strongly to being force fed things we did not write or
have meaningful input into. This plan does not represent my values and goals, not that of any of the friends
that I have discussed it with.
2. Who wrote this plan? Where did it come from? I want to know who the author is who starts a valid
discussion off with a radically different value system for individual liberty, personal choice, and the role that
individuals have in solving their own problems, meeting their own needs and that of their
communities. Show us the genesis of the authorship and lets have a talk!
"A government or an administration,who means and acts honestly, has nothing to fear, and
consequently has nothing to conceal;"
—Thomas Paine,The Writings of Thomas Paine 1 1774-79
4. This general plan is eerily similar to other plans in Texas, Washington State, Idaho and Montana. Why is
that? Again, who authored it? I reject it outright. I don't even want to edit it. I want a document authored
here, by real people dealing with all the issued that have been created over the last decades here - housing,
agriculture, economics including tourism. I will participate in drafting such a plan that serves us.
5. I resent the prolific use of the term 'sustainability' that means more control from outside "Stakeholders"
(??!!!) who get to decide how we take care of our own and where and when? Sustainability means to me
something vastly different than whoever is promoting this document. Sustainability is about stewarding the
environment for the purpose of self-sufficiency and caring for the needs of this island population in a way
that honors the unalienable rights enumerated in our constitution both of the Kingdom of Hawaii and of
America. Any plan that violates those rights is unlawful on its face no matter how nicely the unlawfulness is
couched in words like 'sustainability'.
6. Climate changes are the core justification for this document from beginning to end. We, the occupants of
the county will determine how we will be prepared for and respond to changes in our climate or other living
conditions. We do not all see things the same, this topic is the object of much debate and it is not
acceptable to assume we all agree on the choices and decisions incumbent on us regarding the data.
"There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel,but to deceive is to destroy;
and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion,whether men deceive themselves, or submit,by a kind
of mutual consent, to the impositions of each other."
—Thomas Paine,The Crisis
This document is intended to deceive; and its assumptions and its deception will destroy liberty, destroy private
property, tax and fine in an attempt to control and coerce. The core thoughts are anathema to our governing laws
and must be rejected in favor of a document created here with public input and sincere and truthful intent. "The Life
of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness" and the death of it is perpetuated by deception.
Start over. We want to write our own general plan.
Sincerely,
Kevin Hill
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