HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-09-15 Aerie Waters Testimony#4 -Oppose
From:aerie waters
To:LPCtestimony
Subject:Opposition to item numbr 4
Date:Sunday, September 15, 2024 12:51:15 PM
Attachments:92951a7c9d6c4bdaa63577de9b9be568.png
Your testimony needed now!
DEADLINE for Written Comments: Mon, Sept 16, 4:30pm
DEADLINE to Register for Zoom meeting: Wed, Sept 18,
12pm (Do it now)
What: Leeward Planning Commission meeting
When: Thursday, September 19, 9:30am
Where: West Hawai‘i Civic Center, Council Chambers,
Building A, 74-5044 Ane Keohoklole Highway, Kailua-Kona (or via Zoom)
Big Island has 2 Planning Commissions (Windward and Leeward). Windward
meeting was on 9-5-24 and Leeward is coming up. One down, one to go!
We're on a roll! For Windward meeting over 75 people opposed the Planning
Director's inferior ordinance! Thank you! You rock! Let's keep it going!
Anyone can testify! You don't have to live on Big Island. Please testify now!
The Backstory
We at Safe Tech Hawaii have been working with Hawaii County Council Member
Cindy Evans for over a year on a telecom ordinance that reins in the rampant
deployment of towers and antennas. CM Evans' ordinance was introduced on
August 20 and had been previously forwarded to the Planning Department. Yet over
Labor Day weekend the Planning Director submitted a new ordinance of his
own that is too sympathetic to the Telecom industry. We support Council Member
Cindy Evans ordinance (Bill 194) that was already introduced on August 20.
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I oppose Item #4 because I support Council Member Cindy Evans' proposed
telecommunications ordinance, Bill 194, which had already been forwarded to you.
The new ordinance proposed by the Director is too sympathetic to the
telecommunications industry with not enough protections for our community.
It gives almost total power to Planning and Telecom with no other agencies or
experts involved! It rushes the approval process to only 30 days! It has no provisions
to protect us against 5G small cells! It freely allows towers at schools, playgrounds
and day care centers!
Please consider Council Member Evans proposed ordinance which has clear,
attainable requirements. It is the perfect balance between the health, safety and
welfare of the people and the needs of the tech industry.