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Produce or Pavement?

Posted by Anthony Aalto & Robert D. Harris on Monday, April 5, 2010, In : Agriculture 

Preserving Prime Farmland so Future Generations Can Enjoy a Sustainable Hawai‘i

Some of the best and most productive farmland left on O`ahu will soon be history if we give David Murdock, owner of Castle & Cooke, permission to build 5,000 houses on Koa Ridge.  Together with projects already approved in Central O`ahu -Waiawa by Gentry and Royal Kunia- it's a repeat of a failed 20th century policy: urban sprawl.

Ours would hardly be the first civilization to destroy its best farmland en route to...


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HB 2338 - Reducing Citizen Participation in the Land Use Process

Posted by Robert D. Harris on Saturday, January 30, 2010, In : Legislative 

HB 2338, which allows the Counties to reclassify land before the Land Use Commission without meaningfully involving the public, is a terrible idea.


Citizen participation in land use decisions is an essential part of our democratic tradition.  It ensures decisions are based on complete information (which may involved directly challenging biased studies paid for by developers).  It gives decision makers sufficient information so that they can attached protective, enforceable conditions to perm...


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