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<br /> <br />1 Kona Community Development Plan Action Committee <br />2 County of Hawai‘i <br />3 Minutes <br />4 Meeting Date: August 28, 2013 <br />5 Call to Order 2:00 p.m. <br />nd <br />6 Place: Kona Planning Conference Room. Bldg. E, 2 Floor <br />7 West Hawai’i Civic Center <br />8 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway <br />9 Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i 96740 <br />10 Roll Call: <br />11 1. Members Present: George (Keoki) Schattauer Jr., <br />12 Aaron Nagata, Hiram Rivera, Bo Kahui, Greg Ogin, Elaine Fukushima, <br />13 Chauncey Wong Yuen, Douglas Payne and Ken Melrose <br />14 2. Planning Department: Bennett Mark, Terry Dunlap <br />15 3. Corporation Counsel: Margaret Masunaga <br />16 4. Public in attendance: Marnie Herkes, Janice Palma-Glennie, Charles Flaherty, <br />17 Jeff Zimpfer, Paul Strauss and Laura Dierenfield <br />18 <br />STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 Janice Palma-Glennie commented on concurrency and the problems of developer generated <br />22 roads and who is responsible for the road way improvements. There is a problem that there is no <br />23 vision to provide infrastructure first. She stated that a blueprint is necessary to plan the future <br />24 infrastructure projects so that development would not place such a burden on the existing <br />25 community. Janice is hoping that the Action Committee will not “water it down” too much <br />26 when making future comments on concurrency. Janice thought it would destroy the plan if <br />27 concurrency was relaxed. A second item mentioned deals with open space network plan which <br />28 is the second most important concept of the plan. <br />29 <br />30 Charles Flaherty, second speaker, confirmed what Janice mentioned previously about <br />31 concurrency issues. He offered the use of his background files for reviewing the history of <br />32 concurrency with the County. He also mentioned open space concerns including critical habitat <br />33 and the problems of cutting up individual parcels for this habitat. Also mentioned is the need to <br /> <br /> <br />