PCDP - Amending the Amendments

[JerryCarr]

So now we have amendments to amendments which may need to be amended themselves. I clearly heard Mr. Brown say that everything would have to go very smoothly for the plan to be enacted with the amendments before the end of the current Council term. Does anybody who has actually observed the workings of the Council and the County Planning Bureaucracy think they can move forward with this on the organizational level of a Japanese railroad schedule? They could not do it separately, and the required process would require them to work in tandem to get it done in time. Whether Councilwoman Naeole knows it or not, the amendment process can either kill this thing by delaying it or diluting it to the point that it does not resemble the plan the citizens produced.

Not feeling too cheerful about our prospects, but hopeful none the less,
Jerry