Aloha Defender!
There are two important events coming up this week and several ways you can help Keep the Country Country!
First, as you might already know, the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement process has begun for the new master plan at Turtle Bay. The developer will be hosting an open house at the resort this Thursday, September 15th starting @ 5:30pm.
Join us beforehand for a sign-waving as we remind speculators, resort guests and elected leaders that this proposal is still unacceptable. We will gather in front of the main gate @ 4:00pm . prior to attending the open house. Wear your green shirt and spread the word!
Next, the Honolulu City Council meets on Friday (September 16th) @10 am to vote on the Special Management Area Permit for the massive hotel being proposed as part of the unsustainable Envision Laie project. Defend Oahu Coalition is strongly opposed to a four story, 222 room Marriott Hotel (replacing the former 49 room Laie Inn)
and adjoining commercial/restaurant complex along scenic Kamehameha Highway in rural Laie, Oahu. If allowed, this development would forever alter the character of the surrounding area. Additional serious concerns involve flooding, traffic, sewage, wildlife, beach access and infrastructure in general. If you are unable to attend this meeting at Honolulu Hale please
click here to send testimony in opposition to the granting of an SMA permit:
or submit your comments to:
Subject: City Council Testimony - Resolution 11-84 - SMA Laie Inn Redevelopment
Stay informed, stay positive and
STAY INVOLVED!
Representatives for the owners of Turtle Bay Resort have rolled out their new "master plan" for the 880-acre property—one which still calls for massive, sprawling hotel and condominium expansion and shoreline development spread from Kawela Bay to Kahuku Point. On the surface, this plan appears to be a significantly downsized version of the original 5-hotel Oaktree plan. In reality however, it's just "Oaktree-light": a mega-resort encompassing the entire coastline. This plan is still not sustainable for North Shore and Ko'olauloa communities and fails to address serious concerns residents have about iwi kupuna, traffic, endangered species, and crumbling infrastructure. To trade our future for a plan that enables mainland banks to realize maximum profits on a bad investment is
UNACCEPTABLE.
Most recent monk seal pup born on the Turtle Bay coast just four weeks ago.
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Nineteen burials have already been discovered
and disturbed in areas of proposed development.
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Typical North Shore traffic.
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Today, (August 23rd) begins the 30-day comment period for the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (required by the Hawaii State Supreme Court ruling against the City and Turtle Bay developer last year). You can make your voice heard and ask important questions of the developer regarding the impacts such a plan would have on our island home. Submit questions via mail to:
Department of Planning and Permitting
650 South King St.
Honolulu, HI 96813 |
or |
Lee Sichter LLC
45024 Malulani St. #1
Kaneohe, HI 96744 |
Submit questions via email.
In the meantime, write letters to the editor and call your City Councilmember, your Representative and our Governor.
STAY INVOLVED
Together, we will save Oahu's beloved backyard and Keep the Country COUNTRY!!
KNSA report from TS3
History of Turtle Bay
A piece of Oahu's last untouched coast line from Kawela Bay to Kahuku Point has been the victim of endless speculation and constant threat of massive development. This film follows the resort from its inception to present day and the turmoil that this beautiful landscape has endured.
TALK STORY 3
Mahalo to all that attended
Ko'olauloa North Shore Alliance hosted an evening with the Governor Neil Abercrombie, Turtle Bay representatives and community leaders to inform the community and discuss the future of Turtle Bay resort and its upcoming Supplemental EIS.
KNSA Report from the Turtle Bay "Plussing" Workshop
March 27, 2011
Please read this Letter to Ko’olauloa North Shore Alliance Supporters-
AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE IS A VIDEO EDITED BY "ENVISION LAIE," THE MASSIVE EXPANSION PLAN BEING PUSHED BY DEVELOPER HAWAII RESERVES INCORPORATED (THE FOR-PROFIT ARM OF THE MORMON CHURCH)... WATCH THE WHOLE MEETING AND SEE BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY AT OLELO – WATCH NOW>
Keeping the Country Country
A North Shore couple’s never-ending battle with the City
BY CURT SANBURN | MAR 2, 2011
HONOLULU WEEKLY
In late June 2007, longtime Windward Oahu community leaders Creighton and Cathy Mattoon of Punalu’u received invitations from the city and county of Honolulu to join a committee that would execute a legally mandated five-year review of the Koolau Loa Sustainable Communities Plan.
The KSCP was formulated in 1999 as part of former Mayor Jeremy Harris’ effort to devolve some of O’ahu’s governance back to the island’s traditional districts. The invitation letters were signed by Henry Eng, director of the Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP) under then-Mayor Mufi Hannemann.
Little did the Mattoons know that they were being set up, so they ..... READ MORE>
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Important Meeting!
Tuesday, December 7th - 6:30PM
Kahuku High School Cafeteria
As you may know, the draft Ko'olauloa Sustainable Communities Plan has been released by the City and County of Honolulu's Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP). While much controversy still swirls around the massive "Envision Laie" plan in Malaekahana, DPP also ignored the public's demands regarding the proposed resort expansion at Turtle Bay. Over 5,000 residents signed a petition to amend the Sustainable Communties Plan by removing the decades-old expansion plan at Turtle Bay Resort. Instead of responding to the needs of the community, DPP met with the developer at Turtle Bay Resort behind closed doors and then recommended moving forward with the plan for 5 additional hotels and 1,000 condominiums.
Come to the final Community Meeting next Tues. Night (Dec. 7th) @ 6:30PM at Kahuku High School Cafeteria
DPP has already lost their case before the Hawai'i Supreme Court, now tell them to change the draft community plan for Ko'olauloa to one that is truly sustainable.
Mail your comments to:
info@hhf.com or click here!
You can also mail your comments to:
Helber, Hastert and Fee, Planners
733 Bishop St, Suite 2590
Honolulu, HI 96813
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The North Shore Neighborhood Board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday night September 28th at 7:00 p.m. at the Ali'i Beach Surf Center.
On the agenda is the proposal for a development on public beach park land in Haleiwa. If you'd like first hand information on this proposal, please attend this meeting.
Defend Oahu's position is that no public park lands should be sold for private enterprise.
Press Release
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Defend Oahu Coalition would like to express our sincere appreciation for all who came to the Land Use Commission hearing yesterday in the strongest showing of support we have seen yet for Keeping the Country COUNTRY. As you may have already heard, despite a room full of green shirts, passionate testimony throughout the day, the overwhelming evidence of failure by numerous developers at Turtle Bay Resort to keep their promises, and a clear mandate to rule under State Land Use Law, the LUC failed to reach a decision. After nearly two years and six separate hearings, the commissioners once again decided to call it quits and kick the can down the road.
You can watch portions of the day's events by clicking here>
ALL WE HAVE BEEN ASKING THE LAND USE COMMISSION TO DO FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS IS ISSUE AN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE TO THE DEVELOPER AT TURTLE BAY RESORT. The 236 acres of property in question should be returned to its original agriculture classification due to nearly 25 years of inaction by the developer. Please help our cause by writing a letter to the editor, voicing your frustration with the LUC for not acting in a timely manner on a case that is an egregious example of land use abuse by developers. You can also continue to inform friends and neighbors of our plight and ask them to sign this Call to Action.
Developer Stanford Carr and the mainland banks who control Turtle Bay Resort want this case to go away. It is clear that the Land Use Commission wants this case go away. But it won't go away...
AND NEITHER WILL WE.
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Press Release (click to view)
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Aloha Defender!
After waiting an entire year for another hearing before the State Land Use Commission, our time has finally come!!!
Join us on the morning of Thursday, February 4th as we continue our fight to Keep the Country COUNTRY!!! Defend Oahu Coalition has been before the LUC five times in the last two years asking that the commissioners issue an order to show cause to the developer at Turtle Bay Resort. Our motion questions why a portion of the resort property should not revert back to an agricultural classification due to over 25 years of unfulfilled promises by numerous developers. It is a vital issue, yet still has not been properly addressed. The untimely and unsustainable development proposal (5 more hotels and 1,000 additional resort condominiums) that threatens the North Shore could hinge on this important meeting.
Now we need your help.
We must show the LUC what massive opposition exists to the proposed expansion at Turtle Bay...that means a house packed with wall-to-wall green T-shirts when the hearing is called to order.
Be there:
Thursday, February 4th 2010
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 406, Fourth Floor,
Leiopapa A Kamehameha Bldg.,
235 S. Beretania Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Details to follow...
until then sign our
CALL TO ACTION
and spread the word!!!!
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Conserving North Shore's
Pristine Beauty
Any day now, the Hawai`i Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling on whether a supplemental environmental impact statement is required for an expansion of the Turtle Bay Resort that was originally approved in 1985. The resort owns five miles of some of the most inaccessible coastline on O`ahu, including part of famous Kawela Bay. HPR's Noe Tanigawa takes you there in this report.
Turtle Bay Resort, now in foreclosure, confirms Oaktree Properties still owns the resort. Oaktree's representative did not return HPR's request for comment by airtime. Listen Here->
Press Release 12/15/09
Local community groups opposed to the massive expansion planned at Turtle Bay Resort received further encouragement last night at the North Shore Sustainable Communities Plan Meeting #3 in Haleiwa. The meeting featured a presentation about the culmination of a two-year process in which the Public Advisory Committee for the North Shore completed a final-draft version of the revised plan. The plan to be submitted to the City’s Department of Planning and Permitting now deems resort zoning “inappropriate” for the North Shore of Oahu. The plan also features an additional statement supporting the Ko’olauloa (where the resort resides) community’s position opposing expansion at Turtle Bay Resort, particularly as it relates to impacts on North Shore infrastructure.
Meeting host Scott Ezer, of planning firm Helber, Hastert and Fee (the firm tasked with facilitating and preparing the plan for the City and County of Honolulu) acknowledged that opposition to the proposed expansion was unanimous amongst the 23 community members on the influential advisory committee and stressed that although the resort is not located within the North Shore Plan’s rural boundaries that “what happens at Turtle Bay doesn’t stay at Turtle Bay.” Residents of both Ko’olauloa and the North Shore have long held that impacts on infrastructure and traffic caused by the outdated expansion plan would have a devastating effect on the quality of life in both communities and Oahu in general.
The news comes on the heels of the announcement that Defend Oahu Coalition’s Amicus Brief, filed in support of sister organization Keep the North Shore Country’s lawsuit, was accepted for consideration by the Hawai’i State Supreme Court. The brief, announced at last week’s “Talk Story 2: the second in a series of community forums regarding the future of Turtle Bay”, stresses support for the existing hotel at Turtle Bay Resort but contends that an additional 3,500 resort and condominium units is “an idea whose time has come and gone”. The group argues that “benefits promised to the community as a condition of the approval of the expansion project have never materialized” and that “…this case represents the epitome of unplanned and ill-conceived development and should be stopped until the appropriate studies have been performed and considered.”
Keep the North Shore Country and the Hawai’i Sierra Club filed suit against the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting asking that a supplemental environmental impact statement be required of the developer at Turtle Bay due to changes in conditions on the property and in surrounding communities since the original EIS was done almost twenty-five years ago. Oral arguments in the case will be heard at the State Supreme Court at Aliiolani Hale on Thursday, December 17th starting at 9 a.m.
North Shore Sustainable Communities Plan Public Review Draft:
http://honoluludpp.org/Planning/NorthShore/NS-5yr/NorthShore.pdf
Defend Oahu Coalition's Amicus Brief:
File 1 - File 2 - File 3
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Supreme Court to Hear Case!
Oral Arguments Scheduled for November 19th
Keep the North Shore Country and Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, are pleased that the Hawaii Supreme Court has agreed to hear their case on the need for a Supplemental EIS for the Turtle Bay Resort Expansion Plan.
Kuilima Resort Company, now headed by local developer Stanford Carr, is seeking Final Subdivision Approval for five new hotels and 1000 luxury condos at the Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu's rural North Shore.
The resort, which has about 500 hotel and condo units, would be.....
(Read more here)
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Hawaii Supreme Court takes Turtle Bay case
Other resorts may be affected by decision on environmental study
By Suzanne Roig
Advertiser Staff Writer
The Hawaii Supreme Court has agreed to take up the issue of whether Kuilima Development should be required to do an updated environmental study for its planned expansion of Turtle Bay Resort.
The court announced Thursday that it will hear oral arguments in the case Nov. 19. The Supreme Court will review a 2-1 decision by the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals that denied a request for an updated review of the project's impact on the environment.
The question is whether the project's 24-year-old environmental impact statement is still valid.
In 1986, a 236-acre parcel was rezoned from agricultural to urban use and a plan was proposed to build five new hotels with 3,500 rooms and condominium units and four public parks on a total of 880 acres at Turtle Bay.
Meanwhile, Gov. Linda Lingle announced plans to acquire undeveloped portions of the property as a way to limit development and maintain open space.
The Sierra Club and the Keep the North Shore Country group have been working for more than four years to require the developer to submit a supplemental environmental study. They claim that much has changed along the North Shore since the original study was done.
Traffic is worse, endangered species nest on the beach and the community's needs have changed, the groups said.
"The volume of traffic has grown through the roof," said Gil Riviere, president of Keep the North Shore Country. "We want responsible planning for the North Shore."
Stanford Carr, interim management officer for a consortium of banks that took control of the property in 2007 in a foreclosure proceeding, said he looks forward to the hearing.
"We look forward to our day before the Supreme Court," Carr said. "The whole nexus of the lawsuit has bigger ramifications for our state and economy. We would like to put this behind us so we can satisfy our conditions for redevelopment.
"It's a dark cloud over our head. "
If the court requires the developer to provide a supplemental environmental study, the ruling could affect other communities where approvals were granted decades ago and the building still continues, Carr said.
He cited work at Ko Olina and Kaanapali Resort on Maui as examples of projects that have taken decades to build out. Financial backers count on development agreements with the county for entitlements that form a kind of collateral.
Not every environmental impact statement needs to be revised, just ones in which conditions have changed, said Robert Harris, Sierra Club Hawaii director.
"The Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that unless there was a change in the project, a design change, then there was no need to change the environmental study," Harris said. "We're arguing that a supplemental (EIS) needs to be done when there are changes to the community or the environment, not just a design change."
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Much has happened in recent weeks and the Fight to Save Turtle Bay Is Still Not Over. Land Use Commission continues to delay holding a meeting on our motion to show cause, and the Governor’s Turtle Bay Advisory Working Group has not had a meeting of consequence since LAST SEPTEMBER.
Meanwhile, Stanford Carr and the gang down at Kuilima Resort Company are pushing forward and making progress with the resort expansion plan, currently under a fourth extension of the 2006 Tentative Subdivision Approval. The plan remains to build 5 new hotels and 1,000 additional condominiums at Turtle, Kawela and Kuilima Bays.
All is not bad news however. KNSC plans to appeal their case to the Hawai’i Supreme Court, the state Land Use Commission has recently issued some positive rulings in a similar land use case on the Big Island, and a meeting to update the community is in the works.
We still need your help. You can do this by writing a letter to the editor about the need for City and State officials to wake up and take action before it is too late. It’s been well over a year since the Governor held her talk-story session and this community is well within its right to ask for an update from the government and resort developer. The fact that this project remains hugely unpopular with residents and visitors (as evidenced by the distribution of over 16,000 Keep the Country COUNTRY! bumper stickers and the over 1,400 supporters who have Clicked to SAVE TURTLE BAY) isn’t the only reason to stop it.Traffic, lack of infrastructure, an increasingly fragile ecosystem surrounding the resort, as well as the negative impact construction of this magnitude could have on a rural area are just a few other reasons which our elected leaders must recognize in order to cease the expansion. Let’s stop putting all of Hawaii’s economic eggs in the tourism hand-basket. Economic diversification and sustainable development are essential for Hawaii’s survival.
Mahalo for all your continued
help and support !
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An old resurrected large-scale development proposal on the Windward side of Oahu has prompted Defend Oahu Coalition to pass a motion supporting Laie residents in their fight to Keep the Country COUNTRY.
During the last meeting of the Ko'olau Loa Neighborhood Board, several newly elected board members (who are pro-big development) passed a motion to hold another meeting regarding Hawaii Reserves Inc. (HRI) "Envision Laie" proposal. The meeting is scheduled for
Thursday, July 30th at 7 PM
at Laie Elementary School.
This meeting seeks to circumvent the Ko'olauloa Sustainable Communities Plan (KSCP), and make the city accept a design for a sprawling suburb in the area known as Malaekahana/Gunstock Ranch. We must show up in force to show HRI that this huge development proposal is not what the community-at-large wants or needs. The plan does not adhere to the KSCP vision which "seeks to preserve the region’s rural character and its natural, cultural, scenic and agricultural resources." The KSCP vision goes on to state that "the region will remain country, characterized by small towns and villages with distinct identities that exist in harmony with the natural settings of mountain ridges and winding coastline". You can read the entire plan here : click here
This appeal goes out especially
to our supporters in Ko'olauloa.
IF YOU LIVE IN KO'OLAULOA,
THIS IS A MUST-ATTEND MEETING.
Here is a petition from a community group comprised of Laie residents. This petition seeks to preserve Malaekahana and Gunstock Ranch Agricultural land and calls for strict adherence to the Ko'olauloa Sustainable Communities Plan. Please print and distribute to friends and neighbors and bring yours along to the meeting. We hope to help gather 750 signatures by meeting-time (we already have over 200). While Defend Oahu remains focused on the issues surrounding Turtle Bay Resort, this proposed 1200-home suburb in Laie and Kahuku is one that pertains to our mission statement because (like the proposal at Turtle Bay) it threatens communities along Ko'olauloa and the North Shore with the dangerous effects of large scale development. Get the latest news at our website: www.defendoahucoalition.org and information about "Talk Story 2", the second in a series of community forums regarding the future of Turtle Bay.
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Defend Oahu Coalition grants scholarships to two local graduates pursuing higher education in sustainability through public service and agricultural studies:
Recent graduate of Kahuku High School Julian Reedy and Waialua High School graduate Joshua Kapika were each given a $500 scholarship for use in pursuit of degrees that will serve to strengthen their communities and preserve open space on Oahu for future generations. During a May ceremony at Kahuku High School, Defend Oahu Coalition Co-Chair Tim Vandeveer presented Reedy with the check on behalf of DOC, stressing the importance of volunteerism and community involvement in land use decisions. Reedy plans to study agriculture and sustainability at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. 
Waialua graduate Joshua Kapika accepted his award before a June board meeting of the Defend Oahu Coalition. Upon accepting his award, Joshua expressed his gratitude for the honor through a moving Hawaiian chant (Mahalo Oli). Kapika plans to study political science and Hawaiian studies at Chaminade University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Defend Oahu Coalition wishes both grads lots of luck in the coming semester...ALOHA!
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Thanks to everyone who signed our
Call To Action over the past few months.
Your efforts were acknowledged
at the latest meeting of the
State Land Use Commission (LUC).
On February 2nd, despite receiving over 1,100
of your Calls to Action and overwhelming
public testimony asking for the issuance of
a motion to show cause,
LUC deferred taking action once again.
This was the 6th time in the past year that Defend Oahu Coalition and their attorneys have been before the LUC asking the commission to issue an order to Kuilima Development Company to show cause as to why 236 acres of land that was reclassified to Urban zoning in 1986, should not revert back to its original Agriculture zoning based on 23 years of inaction by the developer.
Read the latest Honolulu Advertiser article about the meeting: (HERE->)
Please voice your anger and frustration with the LUC in a letter to the editor:
· Advertiser
· Star Bulletin
· Weekly
· North Shore News
Encourage family, friends and neighbors to sign our Call to Action. Stanford Carr and the Land Use Commission need to know that we are not giving up or going away:
Let the LUC know that...
• The 236 acres of property in question should be returned to its original agriculture classification due to decades of inaction by the developer.
• Turtle Bay developers originally presented their timeline in 1986 and promised the state and this community to be finished with the project by 1996. Now, with no new hotels, no additional condominiums, no parks, and no affordable housing we must put an end to the infinite speculation that has occurred under four different resort owners.
• This property has fallen into the limbo of receivership, its ownership is unclear, and there is no money in the current investment market to start or (much less) complete a project of this magnitude. To allow the developer to perpetuate this behavior is to encourage land speculation. Residents no longer want or need this outdated expansion.
• This commission was created to prevent land speculation in Hawai'i. Please carry out your obligation under state law and act in the interest of WE THE PEOPLE.
• This process must move on to the next step. Residents of Ko'olau Loa and the North Shore deserve the chance to give testimony on a project that could severely impact their quality of life.
If you haven't already,
please send testimony to:
luc@dbedt.hawaii.gov
and sign our
CALL TO ACTION to
Mahalo for all your continued support!! Stay strong and positive.
Ko'olau Loa
Sustainable
Communities Plan Meeting # 2 - Update
The vision of the Ko'olau Loa SCP seeks to preserve the region’s rural character and its natural, scenic and agricultural resources.
This plan is 5 years overdue, this meeting is 3 years in the making and could be the last opportunity for public input before the draft is submitted to the City Council.Let City and County officials know that we want to Keep the Country,COUNTRY by removing the proposed expansion at Turtle Bay from the Sustainable Communities Plan.
A proposed 5 additional hotels and 1000 resort condominiums are not sustainable and will threaten the viability of the existing resort.
For more information:
http://honoluludpp.org/Planning/Koolauloa/Kloa5yr/KloaProjectPage.pdf
Update on the Turtle Bay Expansion
(With thanks to Gil Riviere and the Ko'olauloa-North Shore Alliance - KNSAlliance.org)
As 2008 comes to a close, we would like to remind you that the Turtle Bay Resort
Expansion controversy is far from resolved. Kuilima Resort Company (KRC) continues
to work towards final subdivision approval that could allow them to develop five new
hotels and 1000 luxury condos on the rural North Shore.
When announced as the Interim Management Officer of KRC, Stanford Carr was
thought to be capable of balancing the public’s intense desire to "Keep the Country,
COUNTRY!", with the creditors’ interest in getting out of foreclosure. That “spin” may have
been overly optimistic as he is clearly following his fiduciary responsibility of maximizing
the resort’s value with no compromise in sight.
The current Turtle Bay Resort has become successful in the last couple years because
it has been correctly marketed as a rural destination on 880 acres of the pristine North
Shore. If anyone tells you TBR is doing poorly, remind them that TBR is doing better
than most of the Waikiki hotels during these difficult times.
Several important efforts are underway to help preserve the rural character of the North
Shore, but the work is not yet done. Your help is vital!
Governor's Turtle Bay Initiative
In January 2008, the Governor boldly suggested that the state could help organize a
public-private partnership to preserve the lands around the Turtle Bay Resort and to
assure long term health of the existing resort. With much fanfare, the Turtle Bay
Advisory Working Group was convened to develop a solution.
The Group recently met to discuss options and the Governor's office released a statement mentioning two recent failed bids to purchase the undeveloped property surrounding the resort.
The Governor’s State of the State Address is coming up in January. Send an email
to the Governor encouraging her to keep the preservation of Turtle Bay a priority in
2009.
Defend Oahu Coalition’s Challenge of the 1986 Conditional Land Use Change
Defend Oahu Coalition filed a motion with the State Land Use Commission (LUC) to
order the developer to show cause as to why 236 acres of the resort property should
not be returned to its original agriculture classification after 22 years of inaction.
The LUC plans to hold its third meeting on this issue in early February at a time and
place to be determined. Please send an email to the LUC to request the hearing be
held on the North Shore, preferably in the evening, so that the maximum number of
concerned residents can participate. It will be imperative to have a strong showing
because KRC is trotting out hotel management personnel as area residents who
support the expansion. Click here to read the Defend Oahu Coalition position paper.
City and Country of Honolulu
It is time to remind the Mayor and the City Council that the public does not want
large scale expansion of the Turtle Bay Resort. Serious issues with traffic,
affordable housing and poorly maintained infrastructure will worsen with expansion.
It is time for our leaders to walk the talk and help Keep the Country, COUNTRY!
Send a message to the Mayor Send a message to all of the City Council Members
Keep the North Shore Country’s Legal Challenge for a Supplemental EIS
Keep the North Shore Country recently filed a motion to prevent the City and County
of Honolulu from issuing Final Subdivision Approval until the legal questions over the
need for a SEIS are decided. These injunction requests are very difficult to win and
the court denied the motion.
Oral arguments on the need for a SEIS were held at the Hawaii State Intermediate
Court of Appeals on April 9, 2008, but the court has not yet ruled.
KRC received Tentative Subdivision Approval on September 29, 2006 and has
received three extensions to complete the conditions necessary for Final Subdivision
Approval. To qualify for the latest extension, KRC had to show that they were
moving forward on the resort expansion. The construction project to expand Kuilima
Drive to four lanes is probably the simplest way for them to go through the minimum
motions to buy more time for their grand plan.
Go to www.keepthenorthshorecountry.org for more information.
Nothing great ever comes easy! We are at a critical moment in time; whatever
ends up happening on the North Shore now will have lasting repercussions for all
of Oahu. Please take the time – right now - to send emails to our elected leaders
and pass this on to your friends. Stay Active!
