PL-SMA-2023-000038 02.24.24 J. MATLOCK TESTIMONY

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Araujo, Jaclyn From: janet Matlock <matlockjanet@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2024 3:23 PM To: LPCtestimony Subject: Oppose SMA application PL-SMA-2023-000038, Kona Hawaii Development LLC Aloha kakou, Mahalo for this opportunity to testify on the SMA application for a potential 100-room hotel on Ali'i Drive. (Applicant Kona Hawaii Development, LLC PL-SMA-2023-000038, for a Special Management Area Use Permit to develop a 100-room hotel on a 1.76-acre parcel located at 75-5868 A1i'i Drive, TMK: 3-7-5-18-11) Please say no to this request to extend, yet again, the holding pattern for this project. It has been 25 years since the original 48-room hotel was proposed (see timeline below). So much has changed since then. Please consider the impacts this doubled-in-size vacation property would have on Kailua Kona's: • limited water supply, • stressed sewer system, • single landfill, plus • the inevitable runoff, • the increased traffic, and • the safety concerns with tsunami, fire, and other evacuation bottlenecks. It is baffling that the Planning Director's report states, "While there are no anticipated traffic impacts from the proposed project..." How can a 100-room hotel's traffic, feeding into a tiny intersection, have no impacts? What other concerns have been similarly dismissed? (Hint: see list above) Today and going forward, please think outside the resort box, and please consider development in the aggregate, not by individual project. There are so many things that we who live and work in Kailua Kona need far more than expanding hotels. Mahalo for your time and consideration. janet Matlock Kailua Kona Project Timeline 1998, a 48-room resort condominium /office complex with retail is approved. 2002, four years later, a time extension is granted. 2007, nine years later, building permits issued for the current the slab and structure. 1