
Aloha Ohana,
Happy Aloha Friday! Just a quick reminder about the sign-waving event on Wednesday August 18th against the purple spot. The Land Use Commission will be conducting an official site visit to the Tropic Land parcel at 1:30 pm on August 18th. This is a great time to show the LUC the community's commitment to keeping Waianae country. Please join us on Farrington Hwy along the corners of Lualualei Navy Access Road and Hakimo Road to wave signs.
The LUC will be by just before 1:30, so let's congregate by 1:00 pm to get set up. The LUC will go up the Navy Road to Tropic Land's parcel. They will stop there and get out to walk the land. Then they will go thru Ms. Stack's gate and down Hakimo Road. They will stop at Waiolu St. to see both Maui's profile and the Hakimo-Farrington Intersection.
If you can't join us that day, you can still participate. Make a sign that says something like "LUC: No Ag. to Urban" or "No Purple Spot" or "Keep Waianae Country." or "Farms, not Dumps". Then take a picture of you and others holding the sign. Email the image to us (miwa@kahea.org) and we'll make sure the LUC sees it. If you live along the LUC's site visit route, then post the sign on your fence where everybody can see it.
Aunties Alice and Lucy have extra signs to pass out, if you need.
It is hard to say how long the LUC's visit will last, but we should plan to out there for at least an hour. And if we can, we should try to keep up the sign-waving through part of the rush hour, so that all of our concerned neighbors can learn about what is being proposed.
Also, the Nanakuli Neighborhood Board will be meeting at 7 pm on Tuesday August 17th at Nanaikapono Elementary School (89-153 Mano Avenue). Please consider attending and testifying during the community concerns portion of the meeting (near the beginning of the agenda). You can tell people about the LUC's public hearing on Sept. 9th (9:30 am at Kakuhihewa Bldg in Kapolei), or express your concern about the urbanization of rural Waianae, the immense increase in heavy truck traffic (Tropic hopes for 500+ trucks an hour!), or harm to farming and public health from more industrial activity.
If you have any questions, want to pick up or drop off signs, call us anytime:
Marti/Miwa/Shelley: 524-8220
Alice: 371-8958
Aloha Aina,
Marti.
P.S. Big Mahalo to all who came out to make signs on Wednesday at Aunty Alice's house. Aunty Clara, Helen, Alice, and Lucy, Shelley, Ali, Tyler, Summer, Samson, and little Kili. It was super good fun to see everyone flexing their artistic strengths! (see attached photo)
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Marti Townsend
Program Director
KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance
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E ho`omalu kakou i ka pono, ke `ano o ka nohona a me ka `aina mai na kupuna mai
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