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January 6, 2006
Aloha,
As you are well aware, our County of Hawaii continues to experience tremendous development
growth. With this growth comes some negative impact on our public facilities and infrastructure.
In an effort to find a fair and just method to pay for necessary improvements to public facilities
the County of Hawaii Planning Department is undertaking to develop an impact fee ordinance by
July 2006.
As the first step in the process, the County of Hawaii Planning Department has contracted Helber
Hastert & Fee, Planners, Inc. to develop an Infrastructure and Public Facilities Needs
Assessment for our island. These consultants have subcontracted Duncan Associates of Austin,
Texas and Alice Moon & Company of Hilo to assist with the project. In mid November initial
stakeholder meetings were held in Kona and Hilo to receive input and gauge sentiment about
impact fees and we are now broadening our outreach. Workshops will be held in January and
March to gather stakeholder input.
You and/or your organization have been identified as Stakeholders and your feedback in this
process is extremely important to us. We are asking that you or a representative to attend a video
conferencing workshop on Tuesday, January 17 from 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at the following
locations:
Kona Council Offices – Kailua Trade Center, 5706 Hanama Place #109
Hawaii County Councilroom in Hilo – 25 Aupuni Street
State Capitol Center Conferencing Center, Honolulu – 1177 Alakea Street
We will be presenting information about the enclosed Policy and Growth Memos and your direct
input is crucial in order for us all to better understand the needs of our community when
assessing impact fees. I must stress the importance of your involvement in this process and ask
you to make every effort to attend the January workshop. If you cannot attend, please find an
alternate. Whoever plans to attend should review these memos and have questions and concerns
noted prior to the workshop.
Hawai’i County is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider
amoon@bigisland.com
Please contact Alice Moon by January 13, 2006 at (808) 933-9772 or
with the names of the people participating and at which location they will be attending. Should
you have any questions regarding the Policy or Growth Memos, please contact Susan Gagorik at
the County of Hawaii Planning Department at 961-8288 ext. 256 or
sgagorik@co.hawaii.hi.us.
Sincerely,
CHRISTOPHER J. YUEN
Planning Director
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Wpwin60/Chris/Policy & Growth Memo
Attachment: Memo and Growth Memo