HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-10-04 PL-INT-2024-008914 GP 2045 Draft Comments - M. Melendez October 4th, 2024
To General Plan Manager and Staff,
Many people were at the meeting in Puna on October 3rd, 2024. We all had many concerns
about the general plan and it didn't seem like you took our concerns seriously since you said,
"This is the plan that will be going forward."
We told you that this general plan looks like other general plans across the nation with words
like: clustered housing, buffer zones, stakeholders, reduce vehicle mileage and more.
You told us that this plan will not take away our freedoms, which leads me to believe you are not
taking our concerns seriously and do not understand the magnitude of this plan.
Here are some examples that are throughout this general plan:
• Pg. 116 Objective 19 Reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT). This is a violation of the
right to travel. Many County "incentives" have increased taxes in order to get the public
to comply. That is extortion. Will that be a tactics in your quest to reduce travel? People
have the right to travel without the overreach of government. Anything regarding
"Reduce travel" should be removed and in its place put, better public transportation like
the rail line from Home Depot south that was abandoned.
• Page 41 (1.13) Incentivize private land management practices that protect and enhance
natural resources and values and, when appropriate, pursue the acquisition of lands
for the protection of natural resources. This says you'll increase fines, permits and other
regulations that hinder people's right to privacy, property and the right to pursue
happiness since you'll be taking people's money! Acquisition of land says that you will be
taking people's private property. This again, goes against the Constitution. How can you
not see this?! See also page 171, 35.a, & 35.k, page 215, 3. Page 236 8d. You may be
thinking I'm looking too much into this. Then, add to those places, "without increased
fines, regulation or permits and without taking people's private property without their
permission".
• Page 33 the diagram reads: "Regulatory Measures": County Code, Administrative Rules,
Permits. This shows that this general plan will increase restrictions and fees on farmers
and other locals. This is not Pono. The plan should reflect innovation not constraints
against the population. It should be changed to "Innovation Practices": Implement
new resources, Administration support, Economic Alternatives Remove "permits".
Stop trying to permit the population to death!
• Page 43. The word "cluster" is very concerning. You have many areas where you'll
"encourage" and "incentivize" clustered homes. See: "1.m Review the Code and
consider amendments to encourage site clustering of development in order to avoid
critical environmental areas and assets." This is also on page 88, 13.15, page 98, 14.4,
page 101, 15.6, page 130, 25.5. Page 232, 1.m. Also, on page 98 you want to amend
the zone to establish "Clustered Rural Subdivision". Clustered homes are NOT how Big
Island residents want to live. Are you "encouragements and incentives" going to be in
the form of more regulations and taxes to get people to do what you want? You don't
think this takes away people's freedoms?
• "Buffer Zone" concern. You have this defined as, "Biosphere Reserve Buffer Zone
(BRBZ) is enacted either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to
guide development within the region's native forest through regulatory measures and
economic incentives." These last phrases says more fines, permits and code.
"Economic incentives" also says fines or even an increase in taxes. This is NOT pono!
See also page 101, 15i, page 232, 1h, page 233, 10, page 238, 15i. This is very
concerning!
• "Conservation" page 236, 10a is very concerning. This says that you'll amend zoning
codes to keep people out of nature. This is not pono with the people on Big Island! Page
241, 26i, says clearly that you'll "incentivize" through reducing taxes to make people do
what you want. That is EXTORTION!
• "Stakeholder" is written 26 times and "homeowner" is written ZERO! The definition of
Stakeholder: Stakeholders can include a wide range of entities, such as employees,
customers, suppliers, investors, government agencies, community members, and
non-governmental organizations. It does not say homeowner, farmer or local
resident. Yet, we are to believe that we are included in this definition of "entities". That is
simply not true!
This general plan is a huge concern for many residents. The language in the general plan is
also written in many, if not most, general plans across the nation so how was this plan written
specifically for the Big Island?
You have climate change as a factor for many things in this general plan, yet have you
researched it?
The climate change areas in this plan will further relinquish the rights of people on Big Island.
1952 credentialed scientists have signed a world declaration stating: There is NO climate
danger! You can find it at Clintel.org/world-climate-declaration/ or simply put, "World Climate
Declaration" into any URL. Climate change is a false narrative that the investors in renewable
energy need people to believe in order for their investments to be profitable. Please do your
research!
The declaration states:
To believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. This
is precisely the problem of today's climate discussion to which climate models are central.
Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical
science. Should not we free ourselves from the naive belief in immature climate models?
Lastly, Rosa Kori, who was a 30 year District branch manager for the California department of
transportation, and a litigation and eminent domain specialist, found the United Nations agenda
2021 which included all of the above terminally. She went throughout the nation speaking to
County and City Council members warning that this plan would not only take away freedoms but
inventory and control all land, animals, property rights and more! This is not a conspiracy. This is
fact! Please watch this video to better understand https://TinyUrl.com/RosaKori
Be brave and tell the County Council that this plan needs to be revised extensively. If you put
this through, you'll be harming your family, and your keiki's future. This plan is not going to
sustain the Big Island. It will destroy it!
Concerned Big Island Resident,
Michelle Melendez-
PS I am not a conspiracy theorist. I have spent years studying what is going on through experts
in meteorology, climatology, geology, and other sciences, as well as government areas. What I
have written is the truth. If you ignore it, you condemn the people of this island to communism.
Don't you owe it to your children to look deeper? 4-1-1
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