HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOMM 53.5 from S. Stoddard re Dist 4 & 5Eoff, Karen
From: Scott Stoddard [davinci5 @mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:37 AM
To: Rene Siracusa; Karen Eoff
Cc: James Weatherford
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP screenshots
Attachments: FDP. Pahoa. D5. Keaau. D4. Detail. pdf; ATT00019.txt; Commission Final Draft Plan all of Pahoa
in D5 and Keaau in D4.plan; ATT00022.txt
FDP.Pahoa.D5.Kea ATT00019Axt (97 Commission Final ATT00022.txt (662
au.D4.Detail.p... 6) Draft Plan al... 6)
Rene /Karen,
Attached please find the plan revisions suggested by James, along with a PDF containing detail views of the
changes he is suggesting. 1'd like to go on record saying 1 support the changes he is suggesting for several
reasons, although 1 won't be able to attend tomorrow's meeting. May 1 submit testimony in writing? If not,
then consider these views an informal opinion offered at this late date, and again, mahalo to you both for your
tireless efforts and hard work.
The two main changes James is suggesting would put Kea'au primarily in District 4, and would put the bulk of
Pahoa in District 5. 1 like these changes because they maximize the number of Puna residents that get to be in
Puna districts. As we have discussed, the public has expressed an overwhelming preference for keeping
communities together rather than bringing the districts in at close to the ideal population numbers. We know
that Puna has 45,000 residents, which, if divided between two ideal districts, leaves almost 5,000 people in
another district. Pushing the deviations of both districts to the maximum allowable will serve to reduce the
number of Puna residents left out in the cold, as it were.
1 also like the idea of putting the two remaining towns in separate districts. Kea'au in D4 and Pahoa in DS. The
draft plan as currently proposed puts Kea'au in D3 (not Puna!) and Pahoa in both, split right down the middle.
Now 1 realize that these districts have little resident population, but they will become the hubs of commercial
development in the next decade. Including Kea'au in D4 will allow the residents of HPP and Nanawale and
Hawaiian Beaches and Leilani Estates to have a voice in how that town will expand and grow in the coming
decade. And if Pahoa is split down the middle of the street, efforts to create a design district (currently
underway) and control the flow of the commercial development there will not have to be coordinated between
two offices in the council.
Also, there is a minor technical issue with the proposed Kea'au boundary. It currently places the Shipman
residence in an area of D4 that is cut off from the rest of the district, since Milo Road is the only route to the
Highway. It would not be prudent to give Bill Walters grounds to bring legal action, even if he were not
immediately inclined to do so.
Please adopt these minor changes. It will make a great plan even better.
Mahalo,
Scott Stoddard
(as an individual)
COMM. 53.5