Important questions about the PCDP

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In keeping with Frrankie's post here is what I submitted. A different point of view surely, but in the hopes of stimulating others to take the few minutes that it takes to submit your opinion on this issue (that unlike so many others may, one can hope, be swayed by public input) I post mine here. As you can see compared to Frankie I know zip about the details. What I do know is that one person who was voted to represent the people of Puna should not be able to blow off so much sincere effort on the part of so many people. To do so would make the whole process a joke, don't you think?

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Aloha Chairman Pilago and fellow Council Members,

In regards to bill 318, please allow me to make this short statement.

As a resident and land owner in the Puna district I have been more of a witness to, rather than a participant in, the process of developing the Puna CDP, but I know of many in my community that have worked long and hard on it's development. With this in mind I am writing to you today to add my voice to those that are asking that you pass this bill in its entirety, as it is written, and without further delay. My purpose in doing so is simply that I believe to do otherwise would be to say that the opinion of the few that would amend this document before passage rather than after is greater than the hundreds, if not thousands, of people that worked earnestly on the Puna CDP, and, this in essence would be to deny us the democratic process upon which our way of life is based.

Thank you for your kind consideration of my thoughts.

Aloha

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