2024-09-15 Aerie Waters Testimony#4 -Oppose

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From:aerie waters To:LPCtestimony Subject:Opposition to item numbr 4 Date:Sunday, September 15, 2024 12:51:15 PM Attachments:92951a7c9d6c4bdaa63577de9b9be568.png Your testimony needed now! DEADLINE for Written Comments: Mon, Sept 16, 4:30pm DEADLINE to Register for Zoom meeting: Wed, Sept 18, 12pm (Do it now) What: Leeward Planning Commission meeting When: Thursday, September 19, 9:30am Where: West Hawai‘i Civic Center, Council Chambers, Building A, 74-5044 Ane Keohoklole Highway, Kailua-Kona (or via Zoom) Big Island has 2 Planning Commissions (Windward and Leeward). Windward meeting was on 9-5-24 and Leeward is coming up. One down, one to go! We're on a roll! For Windward meeting over 75 people opposed the Planning Director's inferior ordinance! Thank you! You rock! Let's keep it going! Anyone can testify! You don't have to live on Big Island. Please testify now! The Backstory We at Safe Tech Hawaii have been working with Hawaii County Council Member Cindy Evans for over a year on a telecom ordinance that reins in the rampant deployment of towers and antennas. CM Evans' ordinance was introduced on August 20 and had been previously forwarded to the Planning Department. Yet over Labor Day weekend the Planning Director submitted a new ordinance of his own that is too sympathetic to the Telecom industry. We support Council Member Cindy Evans ordinance (Bill 194) that was already introduced on August 20. _______________________________________________________________ I oppose Item #4 because I support Council Member Cindy Evans' proposed telecommunications ordinance, Bill 194, which had already been forwarded to you. The new ordinance proposed by the Director is too sympathetic to the telecommunications industry with not enough protections for our community. It gives almost total power to Planning and Telecom with no other agencies or experts involved! It rushes the approval process to only 30 days! It has no provisions