• Not Kaua‘i way of doing things • We use our free time • Pathway to beauty? • Pathway to beauty? • The path is coming Not Kaua‘i way of doing things I am a member of the silent majority
• Not Kaua‘i way of doing things
• We use our free time
• Pathway to beauty?
• Pathway to beauty?
• The path is coming
Not Kaua‘i way of doing things
I am a member of the silent majority for the Superferry. I have read much about the protests and feel they are very biased with only a very small percentage of the population of Kaua‘i.
I sure hope they don’t think they are talking for all of us here. I have lived here 50 years and know local folks don’t write letters to newspapers and are not vocal, but of the many I have talked to they look forward to a new mode of travel. The remarks given out against the ferry are meant to scare folks and to rile some of them up. For 300 cars to come off the ferry is a stupid remark.
I would say 50.
O‘ahu folks coming here to rip us off is another stupid remark, and polluting our land (we do a great job without any help from anyone).
Why not protest the great number of homes we can’t afford being built and outside people buying them and with government having no regard for the roads to improve them.
The recent rude group at Lingle’s meeting on Kaua‘i was a joke. And JoAnn Yukimura incited the audience with unfounded accusations.
This is not the Kaua‘i way of doing things and many of us were truly sorry for her and her group and ashamed of those protesters who seem to think they represent Kaua‘i.
They don’t.
Just talk to the average local residents and you will get your answer.
Robert King
‘Ele‘ele
We use our free time
In response to the letter “Free time Wednesday?” Letters, Sept. 25.
The Surfrider Foundation sponsored a clean-up this last Saturday at Hanama‘ulu Bay. Some of the same people who had been protesting also took time out of their Saturday to help clean up the beach and the rocks of all the trash that accumulates there.
Before throwing stones, maybe you should find out more about the groups that are protesting. We do a clean up every month somewhere on the island. If you’d like to suggest an area for clean up, please contact; SurfriderKauai@gmail.com
Steve Benjamin,
membership coordinator
Kaua‘i Chapter Surfrider
Foundation
Pathway to beauty?
Thank you, Superferry. Thank you, environmentalists for worrying about the killing of whales, bringing in mongoose and coqui frogs. Thank you, freelance crime fighters worrying about drugs and weapons being brought in at an alarming rate. Thank you, State of Hawaii and Gov. Linda Lingle. Thank you to the County of Kauai for all the bike path problems. Thank you to the developers in Koloa and Po‘ipu area for creating traffic and dust problems. Thank you, “Tropical Thunder.” Thank all of you for diverting everyone’s attention away from a very big but little-known project on the Eastside.
I would imagine that these words are the first thing that pops into the mind of Andy Friend, Paul Kyno and investors known as Plantation Partners. No longer will you be able to see cattle and horses grazing, green pasture and rolling hills when you look mauka traveling to the North Shore past Kapa‘a. Very soon you will see more houses. And with all the focus on all these other problems, barely a whisper has been said about the 2,021-acre project at Kealia known as “Kealiakelanani.” This “pathway to beauty” will consist of another 190 homesites, from 3 acres to 100, all under the magical umbrella of agriculture again.
Prices for the first phase can get you 3 acres for $750,000, or if you need a little more for your “small sustainable farm,” you can get 17 acres for $2.3 million. But wait a minute, you may ask, “How can I possibly raise any animals or crops on 3 acres to substantiate that cost?”
“No problem,” say the developers. “You can grow herbal tea, taro or cacao.”
But wait another minute, you may say, “I don’t have the time, desire or interest in growing and tending to tea, taro or cacao, but I would love to get one of these fabulous home sites under the guise of ag land.”
“No problem,” say the developers. “Let us use your land, let us plant your crops, take care of them, make it appear that you actually want to support ‘local’ agriculture, because we all know ‘local’ farmers can afford those kinds of prices.”
“But wait one more minute,” you may say again. “What am I going to do with all of these crops on my land after you ‘assist’ me in planting, growing, tending and harvesting my crops?”
“No problem,” say the Developers. “We just happen to have a million-dollar processing plant planned up by Spalding Monument to ‘assist’ you.”
How did our local County Council, Planning Department and everyone else not catch this? Well, seems like the developers are being kind enough to give up some 10,000-square-foot lots for affordable housing. What’s affordable? There is still no concrete answer on how the developer will come up with this magical number. In one of only a handful of articles, it has been stated that it was suggested to be set at $200,000 but it still hasn’t been determined. Where were Richard Hoeppner and his “1,000 Friends of Kauai” then? Where were the protesters? Issues like this don’t get national coverage but although it may be the lesser of two evils, it’s still evil. Wake up, everyone, although the squeaky wheel may be getting the grease right now, there are still other issues that are just as important. I’d rather have local families visiting our island that come on the Superferry than another 200 homes built under the disguise of a real agricultural project.
Paul Sanders
Kapa‘a
The path is coming
I would like to say that I attended a couple meetings concerning the proposed bike/pedestrian path which is being built.
Let me say this. They are proposing to extend the path up through Kawaihau Road because they say there is a bike/pedestrian path already being used on Kawaihau Road.
Maryann Kusaka, who was the mayor at that time, made the foot path for the walkers/joggers.
Now fast forward to today. I want to know who in the county labeled it a bike/pedestrian path? Who changed its designation?
Be forewarned, people who live on Kawaihau Road. The bike/pedestrian path width requires between 10 to 12 feet. The current path is less than 2-1/2 feet in many sections. If they succeed in making the path go up Kawaihau Road, I give you one guess where they are going to get the extra feet they need to make the bike/pedestrian path.
That’s right. You are going to lose frontage of your properties so the path can be 10 feet to 12 feet wide.
Wailua Houselots community said “No” to its going there. Now it’s time for us to stand up and be counted. Otherwise, bumb bye, you going cry.
Think about it.
Michael Kiyabu
Kapa‘a
