HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-02-04 Donna Grabow TestimonyFrom: Donna Z Grabow
To: LPCtestimonv
Subject: Aloha,General Plan 2045
Date:Tuesday, February 4, 2025 8:03:48 PM
My name is Donna Grabow and there are many reasons to reject the entire General Plan 2045.
There are so many homes that are already so many vacant,foreclosed homes because of high
interest loans.
Yet The Plan promotes relocating people into new cluster housing The Plan has a list of vague
rules for smart transportation in smart communities.
There is part of the Plan that mentions agricultural growth,but the details of sustainability are
not feasible. Farming Expansion needs land,workers and machinery, all of which are limited.
Dependence on imported food will still persist.
If the mistake is made to implement parts of the Plan,then communities of islands can be
turned into controlled, dystopian housing projects.
A sterile technocratic culture would replace the friendly Polynesian culture that is so
treasured.
In the General Plan,it's been discovered that a new map was either tampered with, or
mistakenly mislabled an area that is actually Urban land.
The new map has somehow been redesignated as 'Conservation land.'
This slight of hand would give the State a green light to prohibit homes,farming or building.
On the last note-Keep Hawaii the way it is. There are already plenty of Forest Reserves,
Hawaiian Public Lands, and lots of well-planned parks,beautiful beaches,waterfalls, a free
zoo and botanicial gardens, all which are available to the public. This is a wonderful place to
live. I'm so lucky to live on Moku o Keawe.
The General Plan is not the ONLY choice.
There are much better ideas and clean technology to be considered.
Sincerely,
Donna Grabow
Hilo