Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 8, 1 August 2007 — Kona development [ARTICLE]

Kona development

Kona has lost so many historic places. Our State Historic Preservation Division has been attentive to these problems. If proof is needed, I'd be most happy to walk the 'āina with you, and

you better get me early while I still ean walk, as I'm getting up in . age - 1 am 80 years old. To me, seeing is believing. Many of us talk story, but no one heeds because they eome with plans already made. To our state and county: I want to tell you that we, the kama'āinas, are being squeezed off and pressured by all this new development along our shores. I, as a kupuna, want to ask of you to "Stop! Enough." What would your grandchildren's lives be like in the future? Living in condos? We need open space for them. Learn to plant. Look around at what is happening today. Give them land to build a home and a farm. Hawaiian Homes should do the same. To Hawaiian Homes: kūpuna are looking at your plans above Kealakehe. These lands are good farmlands. Why eoop them in with homes so close? Open up. Please, no more building hotels along our beaches and shores. Hawai'i Island is one that has few niee beaches. Lilly Makuahine Namakaokaia Haanio Kong Kona, Hawai'i lsland