Country roads
The Land Use Commission met for the sixth time in two years to hear Defend Oahu Coalition’s motion for an Issuance to Show Cause for Failure to Perform to Kuilima Resort Company on Thursday. They once again hid from the issue and moved to continue the case: a waste of time, money and energy that a rousing audience of more than 50 supporters of the motion will again lose.
The disappointment was thick on both sides. The developer would love to see this go away. Defend Oahu Coaltion only wants the commission to order the motion so a hearing can be held to determine why 236 acres at Turtle Bay, which haven’t been developed in more than 24 years, should be reverted from its urban reclassification back to ag land.
They’re not asking the commission to stop the development. They aren’t asking for anything extraordinary. They just want answers. This hearing would enable the public to hear first-hand what the developers have in mind for the resort, and why they haven’t complied with the conditions set forth 24 years ago, questions that have remained unanswered after countless attempts at communication.
Do your job, Land Use Commission! Your mandate is to refuse land reclassifications for speculative purposes! Twenty-two thousand bumpers stickers and more than 10,000 T-shirts worldwide can’t be wrong. Keep the Country COUNTRY!
Katye Killebrew
Honolulu
