• Respect da imu • Green harvest waste • Learn from Wailua Beach setback problems • Market madness • Respect da imu Mark Perry thinks fire and or smoke is terrible air pollution. I bet Mark Perry drives a car
• Respect da imu • Green harvest waste • Learn from Wailua Beach setback problems • Market madness •
Respect da imu
Mark Perry thinks fire and or smoke is terrible air pollution. I bet Mark Perry drives a car and transplanted here on a jet plane, but those don’t pollute the air, right?
Mark talks down on our culture and traditions. The Hawaiian imu is an ancient and important part of our culture and it is very smokey for a short while. Does Mark’s BBQ not make smoke?
Maybe Mark Perry should expand his brain and grow up or better yet move somewhere that does not allow imus or fires. Aloha ‘oe. Don’t talk about downgrading the quality of life to a culture that had everything taken from them.
Kohala Alawa, Wainiha Valley
Green harvest waste
Just to let the pilot and police state know I don’t appreciate being awakened from a nap while recovering from sickness by your white and maroon helicopter flying over my house a few days ago at no more than 100 feet above my bedroom.
If you insist on wasting taxpayer money looking for plants, some of which may actually be legal with a medical permit, please observe the FAA 500-foot minimum height limit.
Otherwise you are not only invading my and others’ privacy and space, you endanger lives and property damage when you have a malfunction and crash on top of us.
The consequences of this possibility are far more severe than any good you may do from finding some illegal plants.
Michael Wells, Moloa‘a
Learn from Wailua Beach setback problems
Where the volleyball net and lifeguard tower were a year ago at the south end of Wailua Beach is now in the surf zone, and the plastic mesh underlayment installed under the parking area at the foot of the cane haul bridge is now exposed through the sand bluff created at the “high wash of the waves” line.
That line currently determines the shoreline setback in the Shoreline Certification Process in the Kaua‘i County Code. It consequently determines how near to the water structures, even nonpermanent ones, can be located.
Ordinance 887, passed in April 2007, established the setback at 40 feet plus a formula based on erosion rate.
That ordinance was passed without benefit of UH Professor Chip Fletcher’s Erosion Rate Schedule, which has since been completed for Kaua‘i. So further revision is in the works which Planning Department Planner Kaaina Hull says will result in an ordinance that could be the most progressive in the country.
At Wailua Beach, the high wash of the waves is less than 50 feet from the highway.
A year from now the entire beach could be restored, but in light of the evolving ordinance process and the guiding premise that retreat is the most effective means to shoreline preservation, placing the concrete multi-use path in this location would be foolish.
County Engineer Doug Haigh said at a Wailua Kapa‘a Neighborhood Association meeting that the grant for funding the path carried no stipulation that the path must be continuous. It is used for recreation, not commuting or commerce, so not building it will have negligible consequence.
The mayor and others pushing for the path on Wailua Beach should view this unforeseen development for what it is, accept the direction the Planning Department is headed on shoreline preservation and alter their agenda accordingly.
Kip Goodwin, Kapa‘a
Market madness
What a shame that the recent brouhaha — red tape, politics, “NIMBYers” (fill in the blank to suit your perspective) — that briefly shut down the farmers market is now forcing the wonderful long-running July craft fair in Waioli Park to relocate to Po‘ipu.
I have been a shopper and a vendor at both of these events. I know firsthand that the farmers market serves as a gathering place for local residents and visitors who are delighted to find locally made crafts besides picking up their farm fresh fruits and veggies and tropical flowers for the week.
The craft fair has also been a destination event, bringing in both locals and tourists and contributing to the North Shore economy in many ways by generating income for the vendors and for Hanalei town shops and restaurants. This fair also provided a gathering place with food and music.
With so few activities available on our North Shore it’s a real loss that this fair with its fantastic array of locally made crafts is being forced to take its offerings to Po‘ipu.
One can only hope that some similar powers that be can reverse the decision for the July craft fair just as the Hanalei Farmer’s Market was granted a stay of execution.
Petrina Blakely, Princeville
