Clifto's Kona Coast

[Konaguy]

The project, which 392,000 sq feet of commercial space,
200 hotel rooms and 390 housing units were planned on
83 acres next to NELHA/ Kona Int'l Airport has been stopped.

The attempted county council override of Mayor Kim's veto
was denied. To override the veto required 6 votes. In the
end the vote was 5 not to override, 4 to override.Two East
Hawaii County Council members changed their votes and
sided with the council members not wanting override.

Personally I'm happy this happened. This poorly planned
project won't go forward and dumping more cars on to
Queen Kaahumanu Highway [Which is already maxed out for the last 6 years according to the HDOT].

Evidently 300 people were there when the meeting started at 9AM. 41 people submitted testimony against the project, 7 for the project.

Gary Safarik
Michael Tulang
Bob Jacobson
Curtis Tyler
Joe Reynolds
Voted against the override

Jimmy Arakaki
Aaron Chung
Fred Holschuh
Leningrad Elarionoff
Voted for the override.

http://starbulletin.com/2004/08/24/news/story8.html
http://www.ooma-clifto.com/maps.html

Edit: 7 of the 9 council members are up for re-election. Curtis Tyler
and Joe Reynolds are not running again.

[Miulang]

More fallout from the veto of this development (in today's Honolulu Advertiser). Hooray for the Kona community and for Hawaii County! Maui County is trying to do the same thing with the Wailea area (Prince Resorts wants to put up luxury housing around an area which has artifacts of religious and historical significance).

I'm heartened by the fact that some people are not welcoming large new developments into their communities without first asking the developers to address basic issues like adequate infrastructure and affordable housing.

WTG! So people of Oahu...if the neighbor islands can put an end to willy-nilly development, then surely you guys are akamai enough to start pushing for the same things...

More here: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Sep/19/ln/ln01a.html

Miulang

[Konaguy]

The goods news is in light of the voting yesterday, we have some new blood on the council now.

Bob Jacobson retained his seat
Gary Safarik retained his seat
Peter Hoffman beat Leningrad Elarionoff
Virginia Isabell got elected to the council
Angel Pilago got elected to the council

The bad news
Fred Holschuh Go re-elected
Jimmy Arakaki Got re-elected
Donald Ikeda beat Michael Tulang

There was another newcomer from the Hilo side that
got elected Stacy Higa.

Of the people that were involved in the override vote
in regards to Clifto's.

Voted against override of Mayor Kim's veto

Joe Reynolds [Retired] replaced by Virginia Isabell
Curtis Tyler [term limits] replaced by Angel Pilago
Bob Jacobson re-elected
Michael Tulang defeated by Donald Ikeda
Gary Safarik re-elected

Voted for the override
Jimmy Arakaki re-elected
Leningrad Elarionoff defeated by Peter Hoffman
Fred Holschuh re-elected
Aaron Chung [Did not run]

[BKHale2007]

On a related note (because of the archaeological sites being threatened with development), I'm a member of the Archaeological Conservancy, which buys land in historically-rich areas, and preserves it for archaeological exploration. Hawaii needs a similar organization.

[Miulang]

On a related note (because of the archaeological sites being threatened with development), I'm a member of the Archaeological Conservancy, which buys land in historically-rich areas, and preserves it for archaeological exploration. Hawaii needs a similar organization.
There's a Maui Coastal Land Trust that is in the process of buying up some land in Waihee that has some of the most pristine ancient Hawaiian archeological artifacts and sand dunes in Hawaii. I believe they will allow archeologists to work in this area. They and the Nature Conservancy are working toward preserving as much undeveloped land of archeological significance from encroachment by civilization on the island of Maui.

Miulang