Hawaii County Council 2nd vote On General Plan May 20th! (Email Testimony!)

The update is that they’re submitting amendments and the one biggest amendment that I’m concerned with is Kimball’s. You know, this county council member has really shown her colors when she has put forth different bills around. She wanted to do a bill that would force people who rent out their place, their private, their room in their home, their ohana unit and she wanted them to register their home with the county. Thank God that didn’t go through. So I’m always concerned about when she puts something forth, what is she putting forth? So I do want to inspire, encourage, ask people to send in testimony.

They’re going to be voting again on May 20th. You guys, it’s five to four. Five to four and if that that if that goes through that way and it gets on the governor’s, I’m sorry, the mayor’s desk, the Hawaii mayor’s desk, and he vetoes it, they will lose. We’re so close. We’re so amazingly close with this UN agenda, sustainability, clustered homes, climate change. I do want to say so much Mahalo Nui Loa to the four council members that did oppose Hawaii general plan 2045, Bill 66, so much Mahalo Nui Loa to them.

You know, that was Ashley, Houstis, Onishi, Inaba also. And that’s just amazing. I mean, Houstis, he went on record and showed so many errors in the map, so many errors and omissions that alone should force the county council members to pause and look at this and go, did the locals help with this plan when there’s so many errors in the maps? So that is a, that’s a real tell. You know, somebody did contact me and said that her plan is actually, there’s a bisection of her residential or agricultural farm with natural land.

So what does that mean for her? So I really want to inspire people, encourage people, especially if you got a letter from the planning department about your property being land, your land zone, your land use, I’m sorry, your land use being changed, please contact the county council. I’m going to leave their, their email down here in the description as well as on the video and tell them your thoughts about getting a letter from the planning department saying your land use is going to change. Now they keep going, there’s no zoning, this doesn’t change the zoning, but it sets it up for the rules to be changed.

It does set that up because if a land use is zone is says this is a land use, it’s residential, agricultural, natural, then there’s a zoning, they’re going to look at what the land use is and they’re going to assess what you can and cannot do on your property based on the land use. So that does affect zoning. So if you’ve gotten a letter from the planning department, highly, highly encourage you to please contact county council, let them know your thoughts on that. I want to also share what happened when Matt, county council member Matt, and I’m not good with some of these last names, so he asked, you know, about stakeholders and here is the, here’s what Jeff Darrow, the planning department, the planning director said when he said stakeholders, he goes, that doesn’t mean everybody.

And then Darrow said, there are many people in the world, starts off, there are many people in the world that doesn’t include all of them. It includes everyone, all of them. Okay, he just contradicted himself. It includes everyone, all of them. It includes everybody involved in this process. It could involve people in the world or, but mainly we’re going to see local people involved in this process. So he keeps like what he didn’t, he basically was saying, yes, it includes everybody in the world. But then he was saying, but it’s going to only be people in this process for Hawaii.

Not necessarily, not necessarily. So I have contacted county council Matt and told him, I’m like, look at the transcript because then Matt did a, I call it a bait and switch because he goes, oh, it doesn’t mean they’re going to have a leg up on the locals. I’m like, that’s exactly what it could very well mean. And then he goes, it’s just a gen, it’s just a government term. Like when they say roads, the roads in Hawaii don’t involve the mainland roads. There’s a big old Pacific ocean in between us, but the word stakeholder does involve everybody around the world.

So that, that is, that is a definite problem. The also, I want to show you guys the amendments that Kimble and I already shared this before, but I’m just going to share this again. And I just want to remind everybody, uh, the Wednesday, the 20th is when their next vote, we have two more votes were five to four. You guys were close. Let’s just encourage these county council members to oppose this plan because here is what Kimble, Heather Kimble, council member, thank God there’s somebody running against her. Please vote for that other person.

She wants to change things like she wants to take out the general plan is intended to be used as a policy guide for coordinated growth and sustainable development across our island. She wants to take that out and put the general plan shall serve, shall serve as the primary governing framework for coordinated growth and sustainable development across the island, establishing binding binding direction for the location, intensity, and timing of development. So she wants to make it more, more rules, more regulations, and more stricter and more stronger than what it is right now. And that’s not Pono.

That’s not Pono. So then just making a short video here, um, let me see if there’s anything else I want to share around that. Yeah, they want to expand and develop outside of urban growth areas, but who benefits from that? Who’s the, and could that affect growth in rural areas? So that’s also in her amendments. I did share a whole video on those amendments. Subdivisions in rural areas shall be clustered to minimize infrastructure costs and preserve open space. That’s concerning because what Hawaii local, especially if you live out in the middle of nowhere, you don’t, we’re not, that’s not how we live.

Will this alter traditional rule lot patterns push toward denser nodes, denser homes? Could it change rule character over time? All of these are concerning. Non-agricultural residents development shall not be the dominant use on productive agricultural parcels larger than three acres. So she’s basically, again, more rules, more regulations. So then she also says non-agricultural resident development shall not be the dominant use on a productive agricultural parcel, but how is dominant use defined? You see what I’m saying? It’s like all these rules and regulations, vagueness can be the interpretation of the planning department.

Very, very concerning. Could this affect homes on agricultural land? I’m guessing that non-agricultural resident development shall not be the dominant use. I’m guessing that they’re just not going to allow people to build more on their own property, and especially if it’s not agricultural. That’s my guess. Could supplemental income use become harder because of that? Absolutely. Especially with Kimball putting in amendments, because that is what she was pushing. The binding direction language of the general plan does concern me a lot. And again, May 20th, Wednesday, they are going to be voting a second time.

So just put your voice forward. Just put your voice forward. Send them an email, especially if you’re a homeowner that received a letter from the planning department. Please tell them again what your thoughts are on the general plan 2045. It’s way over the top. Hundreds of goals. It’s setting the county up for failure. So many mistakes on the maps. So many omissions on the maps. And the maps are really concerning because that’s where the zoning and permits, they’re going to look at the land use on the maps. And if the maps are not right, that’s going to affect homeowners of what you can do with your property.

So I just want to again say, please send an email and join stantogetherhawaii.com Mahalo so much for sharing this video with locals and with your own community and stay strong everybody. This is a crazy time. It is going to war is not what we think it is. I’m going to do a whole video on that because it’s not what we think it is. I ran this that has been by all by design and I’ll be explaining what that means. Okay, you guys, let’s do a quick prayer, infinite creator, great spirit of all things.

I just trust our journey. I trust my journey. I trust what is mine to do and I leave the rest to you and whatever is going to happen is going to happen and great spirit. I know that each one of us came here for a reason and we are the bravest of the brave. We don’t give up. We just reassess and move forward from our hearts, taking action from what we know is right and we continue to do that always. Thank you so much great spirit for always guiding us and supporting us, keeping every person safe.

We know we see this island as free. We call that forth now. We call forth angels and guides to be with the county council to touch their hearts, to doing the right thing, to doing what is Pono for the island, for the Ohana here, for our Keiki. Great spirit, we get to choose a better world, a better life by our actions, staying in Aloha, forgiving ourselves first because Lord knows I’m not perfect and forgiving others. Thank you so much great spirit and so it is. Sending you on your Ohana. So much Aloha from the Big Island.