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.
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.
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