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    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.
    Last edited by Aaron S; September 15, 2004, 08:49 PM.
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    Re: Clifto's Kona Coast

    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/ar.../ln/ln01a.html

    Miulang
    "Americans believe in three freedoms. Freedom of speech; freedom of religion; and the freedom to deny the other two to folks they don`t like.” --Mark Twain

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      Re: Clifto's Kona Coast

      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]
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      The Kona Blog

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      • #4
        Re: Clifto's Kona Coast

        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.

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        • #5
          Re: Clifto's Kona Coast

          Originally posted by 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.
          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
          "Americans believe in three freedoms. Freedom of speech; freedom of religion; and the freedom to deny the other two to folks they don`t like.” --Mark Twain

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