Important questions about the PCDP

[EightFingers]

"....You may take that as an invite to join us if you are like minded. ..."
You can bet I'd be there if I could

[dakine]

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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[mella l]

Well said dakine, and I appreciate your style. Thank you Frankie for the background information also! Thank everyone for the links and I promise to try and keep up in the future!!

Wishing you all the best tomorrow at the Rally, and so sorry I can't join you.

mella l

[james weatherford]

Jerry Carr lays it out pretty plain.
There really are entrenched powers that benefit from HPP residents having unreasonably limited options, and those interest are prepared to do a lot to maintain that status quo.

As long as Puna south of Shower Drive is kept as a provincial colony of the Hilo-Chamber of Commerce and the Shipman/Keaau power base, we will continue to pay more and get less.



James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park

[Guest]

Dr W -

Money talks... people walk.

Great testimony at the meeting w/ Ms. Naeole and a great touch was added at the end of your testimony by giving her the flower.

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Rally For the Plan

[JWFITZ]

OK, Rob, I'll be down there in a half hour.

I am extremely uncomfortable with the plan itself, and extremely uncomfortable with what I see as lack of attention paid to the average working class citizen of Puna, and see the PCDP more or less as a manifesto of HPP values, rubberstamped on the community at large. Still, at this point, I'll need to confess that I'm converted by the argument that something must be done, and in a timely manner, and that passing the "plan" as it is, is perhaps the best first step.

Thanks for your due diligence in facing the difficult questions in a public forum. That alone is a testimony to the integrity of the process.

[Guest]

I'm with Jay. I can hear the Gestapo buckling their boots.

All totalitarianism starts with, "Ya know we should get together and make some laws"