To: Don Couch, Councilmember and Alan Arakawa, Mayor of Maui County
Save our Community Plans
Don Couch and Alan Arakawa, stop trying to insert language that would make our our community plans unenforceable.
Why is this important?
Maui county charter provides that the general plan and the Lana'i, Moloka'i and Maui island plans as well as community plans govern land use. But Couch and Arakawa keep trying to insert language into law and into the plans which would turn that upside down and either make the administration's zoning supercede the community plan or flat out say that the community plan is only a "suggestion" and has no force of law.
The plans are the only way that the public can have a say on the rampant development occurring in Maui County and these sneak attacks on the plans are designed to remove the citizens themselves as impediments to the developer agenda of paving over our islands.
Couch plays all innocent and claims he's only trying to "clean up the rules and make them uniform." But he's making them uniform by getting rid of the enforceability of what the public wants.
The plans are the only way that the public can have a say on the rampant development occurring in Maui County and these sneak attacks on the plans are designed to remove the citizens themselves as impediments to the developer agenda of paving over our islands.
Couch plays all innocent and claims he's only trying to "clean up the rules and make them uniform." But he's making them uniform by getting rid of the enforceability of what the public wants.