HomeMy WebLinkAbout2026-09-23 Roberta Hickman SupportFrom:Roberta Hickman
To:Planning LPC Testimony
Subject:Bill 170
Date:Wednesday, September 23, 2026 8:47:16 AM
My name is Roberta Hickman and I live in Ocean Viewing. I am writing in support
of Bill 170 and asking the Leeward Planning Commission to recommend additional
strengthening changes before sending it back to the County Council.
The original Bill 170 language uses subjective phrases like "industrial-scale
operation" and "beyond that typically accessory or incidental to office, commercial,
or public institutional uses."
Those phrases don't set a clear line, and a well-resourced developer's attorney can
argue around them either way. I'm asking the Commission to recommend replacing
that subjective language with an objective, enforceable standard: a specific
electrical-demand threshold, measured in megawatts, that applies to a single facility
and to any campus of multiple facilities built under common ownership or control, so
a developer can't dodge the rule by splitting one large project into several smaller
buildings.Our island's closed water system, fossil-fuel-dependent grid, and already strained
infrastructure cannot support data centers. Please recommend the strongest
possible version of this bill to the County Council.
Hawaii is such a unique State in so very, very many wonderful ways. WE DO NOT
NEED NOR WANT AI DATA CENTERS HERE! Please please please let's keep it
this way!
Malama aina!