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Whitney and Rep. Meyer deliberate Pritchett
Letter
ly saw fit to obfuscate the facts (and
subsequently for Meyer to criticize
Talking truth Dan Boylan, who I consider one of
I was surprised and quite taken our more astute political observers),
with Stu Dawrs' article, ''Talking displays their own lack of regard for
Trash," in your Oct. 6 issue. Sur truth and journalistic integrity.
prised, because after all these years The trauma of that incident in
of shoddy journalism by the main volved not only Kotani's immediate
stream press regarding Roland and family, but a very large circle of
Grace Kotani's murder-suicide, friends and supporters of both of
those of us who knew the couple had them, and it is a wound that is only
pretty much given up on seeing any now healing over. Whitney opened
kind of unsensationalized National up those old wounds again like a
Enquirer-style reporting. Quite tak street punk using a razor to slash
en because Dawrs managed to be so someone's arms to get a purse. Ku
clear about the Cec Heftel smear and dos to Dawrs for at least pointing
Roland's involvement (or more out the truth behind that Honolulu
properly, lack thereof) in it. magazine hatchet job.
Dawrs makes plain that writer The real tragedy is not any made
Scott Whitney (who, in my opinion, up scandal involving an unproven
wrote one of the most bizarrely re connection between Roland Kotani
searched pieces I've seen yet in and the Heftel smear and hence an
Honolulu magazine, and that's quite alleged Democratic Party predilec
a feat in and of itself) and Republi tion for smearing its opponents,
can state Rep. Colleen Meyer are down to Linda Lingle. The tragedy
trying to rewrite historical truth to fit is how, in the case of Roland and
an ill-fitting garment of public mar Grace, the personal and private can
tyrs for the Republican Party. destroy the public good that might
I worked with Roland and Grace have been possible had Roland lived
Kotani on Ka Huliau. As Dawrs a while longer. Those of us who
rightly pointed out, the Ka Huliau knew the Kotanis can only conjec
stories were based on Heftel's polit ture now as to what could have.
ical leanings and his very high ab My thanks to Stu Dawrs and the
sentee rate. These were all matters Honolulu Weekly for setting the
of public record, although not well public record straight.
known, and they were in no way Wayne Muromoto
any kind of "smear." In other words,
Roland attacked Heftel' s public
track record, not his personal and
private life. Letters are welcomed. Write to:
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CALL 734-1961 CALL 533-3608 CALL 487-3828 The Attorney General's Office, work. We wanted something mean ally zoned acres on Maui's north
Prices sub1ect to chonge and seal avrnlab,hly Book early for lowest fares Must add taxes shaken by the Weekly's reporting on ingful." The administration's view shore are ripe for urban develop
the state's habit of unconstitutional was a major point of dispute in a ment. Now A&B plans to domesti
HONOLULU CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES ly sending acquittees by reason of growing fight between Sen. Colleen cate the remaining half-mile stretch
insanity to prison ("Insane Punish Hanabusa and Bronster. Hanabusa of wild beachfront between Spreck
8 p.m. Orvis Auditorium, UH-Manoa
ment," 9/15), has quietly settled argued that the state ought not to set elsville and Baldwin Beach Park
Bruce Freeman's federal lawsuit up a process only to let it expire be with 30 homes.
Friday, November 19
against the state. fore finishing the job. A&B also proposes to develop an
Finckel-Cello/Wu Han-Piano Freeman, who spent three months Hanabusa's argument follows adjacent golf course and subdivision
at OCCC before being transferred common sense, but what legal reme of 420 homes on the mauka side of
"A joy to behold!" -New York Times
to the Hawai'i State Hospital, will dies do these claimants have? Rep Hana Highway. In July the state
Meet the Artists - Rm 36 at 7 p.m. receive a cash award, and all his at resented by Davis Levin Livingston Land Use Commission approved
Tickets UH Student Center, Phone Orders: 956-8246 torney fees will be paid. Further, the Grande, the Native Hawaiian Legal A&B's request to redistrict the agri
Co-sponsors: UH Outreach College & Music Dept. AG' s Office has agreed to examine Corporation and Carl Varady, they cultural land to an urban classifica
the whole system to see what can be charge that Hawai 'i has violated tion. County consideration of the
done. (A deputy in the AG's Office their due process and equal protec matter is moving slowly. Organized
Save hundreds, maybe thousands commented, "We don't want any tion rights, guaranteed by the 14th opposition to A&B' s plans, mean
more Weekly articles.") Amendment, as well as the federal while, is coming from north shore
on your closing costs! The Weekly, meanwhile, is look Constitution's contract clause. Judge residents, the Maui group of the
ing into the case of Roman Brew Gillmor may, however, refuse to act Sierra Club and Maui Tomorrow.
We aren't lenders- ster, an acquittee by reason of insan on the grounds that a federal court -Curt Sanbum
ity who only three months ago died should not override the governor's
We 're loan consultants
of "natural causes" at OCCC. He legislative veto. Classic shock
hired by you to
was supposed to have been at the -R.R. Like to crank up the volume on
save you money. state mental hospital, and had been "Stairway to Heaven," ''Takin' Care
committed to the jurisdiction of the Fin fix of Business" or "Aqualung"? Better
Act Now!
Department of Health, but had been Last month, the W estem Pacific buy the CDs to hear white dinosaurs
at OCCC for three months. "For the Fisheries Management Council like Zeppelin, BTO and Tull, be
• There is no fee for our service
unless we save you money. last two months of his stay there he established an annual target of cause Honolulu's last "classic rock"
was sedated so much he couldn't 50,000 sharks killed as bycatch by station is no more.
• Our business is
saving you money. ... even call home," a family member tuna boats in waters widely sur KKL V FM 98.5 switched for
It's that simple! said. The medical examiner on Maui rounding the Islands. This reduces mats Oct. 22, embracing "island
• Discover why borrowers across has reported that Freeman was tran the current bycatch by 10,000 - a rhythm - an innovative blend of
the nation are calling Loan Pros! quilized two days before he died. relatively small reduction, when you Hawaiian, reggae and Jamaican mu
In spite of denials from the AG' s consider that the number of sharks sic." Explained single-monikered
.A-.
If )OU are about to close 011 a loan. call Toll Free- Office and DOH, the Weekly be killed in waters managed by the operations manager Lanai, ''The Is
1-888-560-.35:r~ -sa\ \ ou were referred lw LP860. CTTI a::J
lieves that the state has been send Council has jumped from about land-music industry is growing at an
For more i11formatioi°1 cMail lp8(10(<1 pearle'deans.com ._._
or, isit pearledeans.com/loanpros. l.,1t111 Pro, ing acquittees by reason of insanity 2,300 in 1991. amazing rate and [is] really just be
to prison in order to appear to be in In 1998, over 6.2 million pounds ginning to define itself. ... The new
compliance with the federal con of sharks were landed by Hawai 'i format will give local artists a venue
sent decree concerning overcrowd based fishers. As the practice of and help promote the growth of this
ing and other difficulties at the state shark-finning - cutting the dorsal expanding segment."
hospital. In fact, we have delivered and pectoral fins from a sometimes Lanai told the Weekly that KKLV
a copy of "Insane Punishment" to still living shark then dumping the has received a very positive re
the Civil Rights Division of the body overboard - only uses a small sponse to the format change - with
Department of Justice in Washing portion of the shark, the benchmark the possible exclusion of some of
ton, D.C. set by the Council still leaves some our armed forces. "There's a few
.__Robert!vf.Rees 5.8 million pounds of shark carcass people upset, but it's a small audi
dumped in western Pacific waters. ence - maybe 2 percent:--basical-
Home lands heist Dissenting voter Tim Johns, di 1y everyone on the military bases,
On Monday, Nov. 15, at 10:15 rector of the Department of Land which aren't counted by Arbitron,"
a.m., U.S. District Court judge He and Natural Resources, told the he said. By contrast, Lanai noted
len Gillmor will hear a motion for a Weekly he disagreed with the action, that the Island music scene, ranging
preliminary injunction in the case of because the Fisheries Management from traditional to contemporary, is
Kalima, Boner and Ching vs. Council failed to address the waste a $30 million market.
Cayetano. The plaintiffs, Native ful practice of killing the shark for its Despite the consolidation of radio
Hawaiians, seek to stop the state fin while discarding the rest of the ownership in Mainland hands, the
from enforcing a deadline that cuts animal. As Johns explained, the media game of "follow the leader"
them off from review of complaints Council instead chose to act mini is now taking a decidedly local-style
for alleged breaches of the Hawai mally while awaiting the result of a bent. KORL 99.5 FM joined the
ian Home Lands Trust. detailed study of finning' s impact on fray just last month ("Soft rock, Is
On June 16, Gov. Ben Cayetano local shark populations. land style ... "), while KCCN 100.3
vetoed a bill to extend the dead Specific practices to reduce the FM is already the most-listened to
lines, set by previous legislation. shark kill have yet to be developed, radio station, according to summer
The Legislature did not overrule the as they, too, would depend on re Arbitron radio ratings.
veto. The result is a Catch-22 ports prepared by fisheries scientists KRTR 96 FM and KINE 105.1
process: Though the Hawaiian for the Council. FM, meanwhile, broadcast similar
Home Lands Trust Claims Review Meanwhile, pressure to alter this formats, while Hawaiian blends can
Panel must review claims, then Pacific practice continues to grow at also be found on KCCN AM 1420.
send its advisory opinions to the the federal level. As we reported in KSSK (AM 59, FM 92) often spins
Legislature for approval before "Shark Attack" (10/6, HW), House local artists, while even college ra
claimants can take further action, Concurrent Resolution 189 would dio KTUH 90.3 FM and public ra
approximately 2,055 claims, in urge Wespac to stop shark-finning, dio KIPO 89.3 FM feature Hawai
volving 1,376 claimants, have not while asking Congress to prohibit ian music slots.
been reviewed. shark-finning in all U.S. waters. Two CD and tape sales for Hawaiian
Under the law setting up the re weeks ago, the House Resources music easily surpass rock, pop,
view panel, Hawaiian claimants Committee endorsed the resolution. country and hip hop. "Especially
were required to notify the panel of -Liana Holmberg now, with Na H6kii recognition and
any disputes by Oct. 1, and all re the Hawaiian Music A wards," notes
sulting lawsuits must be filed by Mo' beach trouble Bonnie Hoover, supervisor of Tow
Dec. 31. If deadlines are missed, the Although it's not on the Sierra er Records at Kabala Mall. But
right to sue is lost forever. Club's endangered-beaches list classic rock sales continue to be
Cayetano, acting on the advice of ("Keeping 'Em Wild," Page 7), popular, too, as evidenced by sales
former Attorney General Margery there's more troubling development for Monster Ballads featuring Jour
Bronster, vetoed HB 1675, the bill planned for Maui's coast: ney, Chicago, Rod Stewart et al.,
to extend the deadlines and the life Alexander & Baldwin, owner of Hoover says.
of the panel, stating, "The review 69,000 acres on Maui, boasted in an -Chad Blair
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'That's not good rent," says Craig nfortunately, Hawai'i's af
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Castellanet of the Legal Aid Society fordable-housing problems
of Hawai 'i. "That's why the owner don't stop with the Section 8 Creamy Gourmet Cheeses
wenty-five years ago, the has a legitimate gripe against HUD, opt-out crisis. There's also Enticing En tree du Jour
federal government re and that's why the tenants have a le the matter of the state hous
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vamped its approach to gitimate gripe against HUD, be ing authority (the Housing
low-income housing. It cause they have no security." and Community Develop lee Cream made from MiI1. 'n Honey
took the United States THC Ginza has applied to HUD's ment Corporation of Hawai 'i) and its
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Housing Act, created in "Mark-to-Market" program, which poor math and communication skills.
1937 for the purpose of is an attempt to adjust subsidies to HUD underwent massive deregu Single Malt Scotches
funding government-owned afford- match competitive rent prices in a lation in 1998 with the passage of and, a relaxing Cigar.
able housing, and added a new sec given area. If it gets the markup, the Quality Housing and Work Re
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tion that provided rent subsidies to THC Ginza will be required to par sponsibility Act. Among an exten
private owners with low-income ticipate in Section 8 for five more sive list of tasks, QHWRA dictates The Wine Bar opens at 4 p.m. daily.
families living in their units. Fami years. that state housing authorities are now
Lunch served on weekends, from
lies would put a percentage of their But five years isn't much time, responsible for assessing need and
income towards rent (based on fed and a company interested in buying eligibility in public housing and ten 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
eral standards) and the government Maunakea Tower has also applied to ant-based Section 8 projects.
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would pay the rest (o f what it decid the City & County of Honolulu for a This must be done with the assis
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for mqre than a taste, visit us at
ed was a fair rent price). Section 8 $26 million tax-exempt bond. The tance of a Resident Advisory Board
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was born, and it boomed. that represents the interests of both
And now it may be dying. A slow, public housing and tenant-based
With skewed
painful death - gasping for breath Section 8 program participants, and f 's
adovani (j/Jistro and GffirtlJ (j/Jar
as the 20-year contracts between pri both an annual and a five-year strate
data assessing the
vate landlords and the federal gov gic plan must be filed with HUD.
ernment start expiring all over the The deadline for the Housing and
need for 1956 Ala Moana Blvd.
place. With a flush national economy Community Development Corpora
(and even with our sagging local tion's first five-year plan is April 15, T e:le:pbone 808 H6 3+56.
subsidized
economy), rents have skyrocketed 2000, with a draft expected to be fre:c vale:t parkln5.
over the past few years. The U.S. De completed by December. Already,
housing in Banque:ts, call 9+7 H?36.
partment of Housing and Urban De though, there are major problems
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velopment, which administers the with the draft plan.
Hawai'i, the
Section 8 program, has failed to keep The number of very low-income
up with these market increases and is ' . households in Hawai 'i (families
states entire
underfunding many projects. with an annual income that's less
So when faced with the choice of than 30 percent of the area median)
affordable The Debut Self-Titled Release
sticking with Section 8 or switching was pegged at 600, a number that
to open-market rentals, many land Castellanet says is "wildly low," es
housing program
lords have decided to opt out of the pecially when compared to the [MATT SWALINKAVICH • Kl HO'ALU KID]
program. They're taking out loans to Housing and Community Develop
pay off their debts to HUD, which fi is at risk of ment Corporation's own Consoli MAKANA
nanced the building of many subsi dated Plan from 1998 (usin~ 1990
collapsing.
dized-housing projects back in the census data), which assesses that
1970s, and selling their buildings or same figure at 24,000 households.
turning them into more profitable "You've got to step back and look
ventures. (The Weekly reported in a money is ostensibly for renovations at the sheer magnitude of their num
June 16 Honolulu Diary, "Hatchett to Maunakea Tower, but the compa bers," Castellanet says. 'There's no
act," about Gov. Ben Cayetano's ny also plans to pay off HUD fi way [the QHWRA plan] is even
veto of a bill last legislative session nancing with the bond and, Castel close to correct."
that would have required a one-year Janet says, switch to the more lucra With skewed data assessing the
advance eviction notice to low-in tive tenant-based Section 8 program. need for subsidized housing in
come tenants.) If this happens all of the tenants cur Hawai'i, Castellanet says the state's
In Hawai 'i, there are currently rently living at Maunakea Tower entire affordable housing program is
3,971 project-based Section 8 units would receive Section 8 vouchers, at risk of collapsing. And while hous
(where funding is in the form of rent but rent rates would no longer be de ing advocates are trying to help steer
subsidies attached to specified termined by HUD - and there the Housing and Community Devel
units), and 8,993 tenant-based Sec would be no guarantee for tenants opment Corporation in the right di
tion 8 units (where funding is in the that their vouchers would be enough rection, they've been hampered by
form of a rent voucher distributed to to cover any increases in rent. the task of first opening the project
low-income tenants who then find Castellanet has suggested that the up to the public and to tenants.
their own rentals). So far only 18 city grant the bond to Maunakea Castellanet comments that while
property owners in the state have Tower's potential new owners, as the Housing and Community Devel
opted out of expired contracts, but well as bonds recently applied for opment Corporation's Board of Di
80 percent of Hawai'i's project by the owners of other Section 8 rectors has been very helpful in this
based Section 8 contracts will have projects, with the qualification that process, the actual staff of the agency
expired by 2004. The number of the units stay in Section 8 for the 30- has been difficult to work with.
opt-outs will no doubt increase. year duration of the bond. Complicating matters even more
The contract on the state's largest It's a tactic that's being taken in is HUD, which is pushing state
concentration of project-based Sec places like San Francisco, but the housing authorities to mix income
Available Now
tion 8 units, Maunakea Tower city's administrative staff has been levels in housing projects and pro
apartments, expired in August unreceptive to the idea - fearing vide more assistance for working
1998. The owner, THC Ginza Joint that such a move would force prop and medium-income families.
Venture, has signed a one-year re erty owners to opt out of Section 8 Castellanet fears that the elderly
newal with HUD, but has yet to altogether. The idea has received and disabled will be left out in this
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make a long-term decision on the some support from the City Council, "great rush to gentrify public hous
fate of the Chinatown high-rise, however - namely from Steve ing," especially if very low-income
which houses 380 households of Holmes and Duke Bainum - and a families are displaced to make room
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Defending Hawai'i's
dwindling supply of
undevelopei
beaches.
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Maha'ulepu petitioned U.S. Senator Daniel
Inouye to pursue federal funding for the pur
chase of Maha'ulepu for a coastal park.
Responding by letter, Grove Farm's then
CEO David Pratt signaled that the landown
er was not interested in such a sale. He argued,
Poster child: Kaua'i's Donkey Beach is on the Sierra Club's list of threatened coastal areas. A compromise between developers and
environmentalists allows for building of a housing complex - above the bluff line and with night-light and landscaping accommodations. somewhat illogically, that the adjacent, soon
to-be-completed Hyatt resort (itself on for
mer Grove Farm cane fields) "is a quality
ast fall, the Hawai'i Sierra Club ers in the land-use decisions that affect these which (together with the adjoining Waterhouse development which preserves and protects
launched a campaign to defend the cherished areas," Lafond says, "give them the family estate at fabled Kipii Kai around the cor the beauty of the area in a way which makes
Islands' dwindling supply of wild, tools they need to be effective participants. In ner) it should be. Grove Farm has long been a costly and unproductive wilderness park
undeveloped coastlines and a very real sense, these places belong to them hospitable to beach-goers and fishermen. The completely unnecessary."
beaches. Seven "threatened" spots already ... sort of a virtual ownership, you might gated access road along the coast is open to During the Hyatt golf course's hotly con
across the state were targeted: say, ownership from the heart. Once that link cars from dawn to dusk. The farm maintains tested permit hearings, developer Mel Ventura
Makalawena and Kohanaiki on the is solid, it's very easy to do the rest and really trash containers and pays a security guard. repeatedly argued that the golf course would
Kona coast of the Big Island, south Maui's defend our coasts." Hugh Klebahn, CEO of Grove Farm, says be the very last incursion into Maha'ulepu.
Palauea Beach, Waihe'e in northwest Maui, about 80 cars pass through Grove Farm's gate The people of Kaua' i have plenty of reason
Kahuku at O'ahu's northeast comer, Kefilia Kaua 'i's sunny Maha'ulepu may be on their way to the beach each day. to be hyper-defensive about Maha'ulepii, but
Kumukumu on windward Kaua'i and the Hawai'i's wildest, biggest and most "I think there's a balance tbat Hugh Klebahn argues that the
Maha'ulepii coast near Po'ipu on southeast beloved chunk of isolated-yet can be reached between agricul Curt Sanborn future ofMaha'ulepu doesn't
Kaua'i. accessible, privately owned pristine ture and other development, a bal have to be so black and white.
Mouth-watering pictures of the sandy strands coastline. Its two dramatic miles of ance with nature," Klebahn says "I think there's somewhere in
adorn a glossy poster distributed by the Sierra coastal dunes, coves and beaches are hidden of the extraordinary acreage in his between," he says, "a place where
Club, which exhorts: "Malama Kahakai ... Keep beyond the end of the road at the eastern end care. Klebahn 's ancestor, George Norton Wtlcox, we can compromise. We're all looking for the
It Wild!" of the Po'ipu resort district. Directly north son of Hanalei missionary Abner Wilcox, found same thing: preservation of the natural beauty
The Sierra Club calls these beaches the most and east are the scenic ramparts of Ha'upu ed the Grove Farm sugar plantation at Lihu'e of the place."
vulnerable stretches of open coastline in the Ridge and the headland at Kawelikoa Point. in 1864. Well, sort of. Grove Farm is also looking for
state. They're ripe for domestication by dint of Directly to the west is the lavish Hyatt 'Tm not a believer in absolutely no devel a "return to our investors," as Klebahn himself
private ownership and proposed development. Regency Kaua'i hotel and golf course. opment," Klebahn adds. "Grove Farm is a com has carefully noted.
The Coastal Lands Conservation campaign Resort encroachment into the spectacular, pany in transition. We've been an agricultural Klebahn emphasizes that, in recent years,
was the brainchild of the Sierra Club's then neatly bound 3,500-acre sanctum of cane fields, company for all of our existence, but now we're there hasn't been a single offer from a devel
executive director, attorney David Kimo Frankel, low sea cliffs and pocket beaches would be a struggling. We need to find alternatives, to gen oper to buy or lease acreage at Maha'ulepii,
who now lives on the Big Island. perfect tragedy: Perfect because if ever a erate a return to our investors." It should be implying that all the talk about Maha'ulepu's
"We'd watch all these local fights over Hawaiian coast was situated for ultimate resort noted that most of Grove Farm's stock is close impending rape is premature. He blames the
beaches," says Frankel, a veteran of the suc development, Maha'ulepu is it; tragic because ly held by members of the Wilcox family, whose delay on the state's land-use laws and "reams"
cessful 12-year grassroots battle to defend Maha'ulepu in its current state is a cathedral inherited shares make them passive investors of regulation that discourage developers.
O'ahu's rugged Sandy Beach/Kaiwi coast to ka ha Hawai'i, the breath (or spirit) of at best. "There are reasons that people aren't jump
line. "They were usually last-minute, des Hawai'i. The threat of development has hung over the ing on planes to buy up every last piece of real
perate skirmishes with a few overworked In fact, landowner Grove Farm presented a coast since the 1960s, when, according to estate here. Hawai'i is a beautiful place, but
citizen activists and a lawyer. We needed to roughly sketched-out resort/residential devel Klebahn, planners sketched "Hyatts stacked there are other places," he says.
get ahead of the game and think of beach con opment proposal for the area during the coun up all the way along the coast." Klebahn notwithstanding, the news on Maui
servation more comprehensively." ty-sponsored Future Fair in October 1998 - In the mid-1970s, Grove Farm got involved is that people are jumping on planes to buy up
With $25,000 in locally raised funds, the the visioning part of the Kaua' i General Plan with a Florida-based builder called Leadership every available piece of real estate. On this
Sierra Club hired Maui activist Richard Lafond review process. Reacting to the proposal at that Homes in a scheme to develop the entire tract, most Califomicated of islands, real-estate prices
to run the Coastal Lands Conservation cam time, a county councilman was dismissive: until interoffice memos addressed to the Florida are going up, especially for beachfront prop
paign for a year. "When we gave developers Po'ipii, we drew headquarters boasting ofbackroom deals with erties.
"The trend is toward loss," Lafond notes. the line at Maha'ulepu. There will be nothing Kaua'i leaders were copied and leaked to The
One of the key problems, he says, is the rela at Maha'ulepu!" Garden Island newspaper. The ensuing scan '' I t 's unusual to have this amount of
tive ease of converting land in an agricultural Undoubtedly, Grove Farm will have a huge dal and public uproar swamped Grove Farm's Maui oceanfront on the market,"
district (i.e., most former plantation land) to an fight on its hands if and when it submits pro plans and the political career of then-Mayor says Realtor Bob Cella, owner of
urban district, or, if that fails, simply skirting posals to the state and county for anything more Francis Ching. Jean Holmes, editor of The Coldwell Banker Island
state law and developing (luxury) "farm than a new barn on the site. Garden Island from 1966 to 1984, fondly recalls Properties in Kihei. "A lot of it is
dwellings" en the agricultural land. In reality, Maha'ulepii looks like it already the affair as "the best scoop I ever had." moving right now. We're seeing young
"We want to get the public involved as play- is a minimalist state park, or a national seashore, In 1988, a citizens' group called 'Ohana 0 people with lots of money looking to buy.
November 10 -16, 1999 • Honolulu Weekly • 7
There's a lot of conversion of stock options Councilman Dain Kane and many of Maui's farm. Waihe'e's pristine condition - and the "Someone told me it's like O'ahu in the '80s,"
to land and, vice versa, of dirt to cash. Kihei, most vocal interests are still wrangling to get landowners' intentions - qualified the site for says Maui activist Dana Naone Hall, referring
Wailea, West Maui - the whole island is the land in public hands. inclusion in the Sierra Club's list, even though to her island's surge in real-estate activity. "But
red-hot." Recently, the Honolulu office of the Trust the narrow sand beach is marginal. in the '80s it was hotels. Now it's private res
Cella is the sales agent for the subdivision for Public Land (TPL), with its bag of magic Over the years, Sokan has scaled back its idences, half-acre lots going for $2 million to
and sell-off oflovely little Palauea Beach, tucked leveraging tricks for transferring private land plans repeatedly in response to concerns about $3 million each. It's totally wild, totally self
into its own cove and the only serious unde to the public trust, got involved. significant Hawaiian burial sites on the prop ish, and it's hurting us. We can't afford our own
veloped beach left between Kihei and Makena. "We have begun talking with [the landown erty, as well as concerns regarding the site's wilderness, our own coastline, and we're los
Palauea was selected as one of Maui's 10 er] about a purchase," reports Hawai'i TPL wetlands and unique dune ecosystem. ing it fast."
best beaches and one of the state's 50 best by manager Teresa McHugh. "We're looking at Sokan spokesperson Maureen Bond was sur
beach guru John Clark in his latest book, the potential to purchase all remaining beach prised to learn that Waihe'e was on the Sierra For a century, most of Hawai'i's
Hawai'i's Best Beaches (UH Press, 1999). lots .... That's the most optimistic potential out Oub's list of endangered coastal areas. Waihe'e, shorelines were tied up in plantations
Owned since the mid-l 980s by Paul Morris of come." she concurs, "has an aura about it that's very and inaccessible except to people who
Chicago and used since forever by Maui resi McHugh et al. have to act fast: Right now, special; that's why our company wanted to knew how to get there; i.e., local
dents an~ visitors, Palauea also happens to be seven half-acre people. But now the plantations have
on the Sierra Club's list. sandy beachfront been shut down by their corporate owners;
Eight years ago, interested parties, including lots at Palauea are diversified agriculture and development are
the Maui Tomorrow, Sierra Club, Hui Alanui for sale, each priced the two options available to generate money
0 Makena and the Citizens Advisory Committee above $23 million. and shareholder goodwill from the fallow
for the Kihei/Makena Community Plan Update, One lot has already fields. What to do?
began to agitate for Maui County to acquire been sold to The timing couldn't be better: The high-tech
Palauea for a public park. By 1996, the Maui Douglas Schatz of fueled economic expansion that has engulfed
County Council had authorized then-Mayor Fort Collins, Colo., the Mainland United States is most stunning
Linda Lingle to condemn the five-acre beach for $2.8 million. in northern California and Seattle. Desire and
parcel, valued at $8.7 million (at that time). Schatz also recent fantasy-fulfillment are up, way up, on the West
Lingle, however, did not act. ly bought the 12- Coast - desire for some sort of expensive,
Last year, the Council authorized a total of acre Carter estate at away-from-it-all paradise. Imagine the thou
$20 million for land acquisition: $14 million Keone'o'io, further sands of thirtyish Silicon Valley millionaires
remains, but the money lapses in December. south at La Perouse who grew up wearing Quiksilver and now find
The Klnei/Makena Community Plan, adopted Bay, for $5.3 mil themselves suddenly able to afford their trop
by the Council in 1998, designates Palauea as lion. A Conservation District Use Permit appli reach a compromise with the community to ical dreams.
a park, but current Mayor Kimo Apana does cation is currently before the state Board of come up with something that we can do." It's not very difficult to figure out why Justin
not consider the plan a legal zoning document. Land and Natural Resources to build a 4,285- Bond points out that the property hasn't been and Michele Hughes, Bay Area-based husband
Advocates of the beach park point out the area's square-foot main residence, a 1,700 square touched in 10 years, and seems to suggest that and-wife developers, principals of Ke~ilia
archeological remains - the problematical foot guest residence and a swimming pool (with Sokan is ready to bail out, for a price: ''There's Plantation Co. LLC, which bought a 7 ,000-
stones-and-bones defense of undeveloped land. an infinity edge!) on the conservation-desig been a lot of talk about acquiring the proper acre chunk of east Kaua'i waterfront planta
At market prices, Palauea's nine oceanfront lots nated land, which borders the 'Ahihi-Kina'u ty, but no one has sat down and talked to us. tion land from longtime landowner Amfac in
are now collectively worth roughly $24 mil Natural Area Reserve. [Mayor] Apana has put a group together to dis 1997 for a reported fire-sale price of $133 mil
lion. Over at Waihe'e, a sleepy coastal district cuss beach acquisition, and we heard that lion. Why? To make money; to speculate on
Under Mayor Apana, the county has appraised northwest of Wailuku, Tokyo-based Sokan Palauea and Waihe' e were at the top of the list. the premise that the real-estate fever now hit
one parcel on the beach for possible condem Hawai'i has been sitting on a scenic 300-acre "Sokan is looking for a win-win," Bond adds. ting Maui will soon be washing over Kaua'i,
nation and purchase - as a small, public-access coastal parcel for 10 years, with now-dormant "Our aim is to put the golf course in there, but despite Hugh Klebahn's pessimism.
corridor/parking area for the soon-to-be fabu plans to develop a spectacular golf course on the mayor has the power of eminent domain, The real estate purchased by the Hugheses
lously wealthy beach enclave. Meanwhile, the rolling, seaside dunes, former site of a dairy so we have to be realistic." encompasses two Sierra Club poster-child
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Keeping'Em Coalition vs. City & County of Honolulu.) requesting that Congress fully fund the Land state's Department of Land and Natural
Donkey Beach was a classic, Hawaiian-style and Water Conservation Fund, set up years Resources.
compromise solution. Hide the houses from ago to spend the federal government's oil Instead, the state has been busy shoring up
Wild the beach and every one's happy, although Judy leasing revenues. In the past, those revenues its resolve to "protect and conserve the state's
Dalton, one of the Friends of Donkey Beach, have been largely diverted for other uses. beaches" and to strike a "balance between
says, "We were not able to save the views as Whether or not Clinton gets his billion coastal development and beach conservation
much as we would have liked." (Republicans in Congress have counterpro by promoting alternatives to shoreline hard
One of Dalton's lawyers was Kimo Frankel, posed just $225 million), the notion of trans ening, such as beach and dune restoration,
beaches: Keiilia Beach and Kumukumu, known who put Donkey Beach on the Sierra Club's ferring land to the public trust in order to protect coastal lands acquisition and strategic rede
as Donkey Beach by one and all. For years, "threatened" beaches list a year ago. it has taken center stage in the nation's envi velopment." DLNR calls its initiative the
isolated, hard-to-get-to Donkey Beach has been "Negotiations were tough,'' Frankel explains. ronmental consciousness as a preferred method Coastal Lands Program and plans to fund
the beach-of-choice for gay and/or nude sun "By compromising, we did not for preserving enforcement and restoration efforts by leasing
bathers ("Beach Bummer,'' HW, 7/21). reach a perfect solution. It is scenic, ecologi out other public coastal lands. Enabling leg
The Hugheses bought the agriculturally zoned, always difficult to decide when cally sensitive islation for the program was signed into law
blustery windward coastline to subdivide the to fight and when to compromise. and wilderness in June.
land into luxury enclaves of"farm dwellings" ... Only time will tell the extent areas. "The governor has always been interested
with million-dollar ocean views. To secure to which the settlement preserves But there are in coastal lands,'' Johns says, pointing out the
development permits from the county, the the character of the area." other ways: con state's condemnation proceedings against
Hugheses agreed to turn over 50 acres ofback Contacted at his Latin servation ease landowner Bishop Estate for 300 strategic acres
shore at Donkey Beach to the county, creating American Trade Finance office ments whereby at Queen's Beach along O'ahu's Kaiwi coast.
a not-insignificant public swath along the cove. in San Francisco, Justin Hughes landowners sign Also, discussions are under way between
Early last summer, the Hugheses settled a declined to comment on his key binding agree DLNR, landowners and the Trust for Public
suit brought against them and the County of role in the looming domestica ments not to Land regarding acquisition of two important
Kaua'i by the ad hoc Friends of Donkey Beach tion of one ofHawai'i's handful build on speci waterfront parcels on Kaua'i's North Shore.
and financed by the Sierra Club. The suit chal of surviving wild coastlines. He fied chunks of Beach authority John Clark applauds the
lenged their Special Management Area permit said he would prefer to wait and land, usually in state's successful assemblage of a string of
awarded by the county. comment after his project has exchange for sandy strands near Keahole airport on the Kona
In the lawsuit settlement, which pertains received all the necessary per some other con coast-Mahai'ula,Manini'owale,Keawa'iki
only to the development's first, 30-unit phase mits to proceed. sideration; clus - all of them formerly targeted for develop
overlooking Donkey Beach, the Hugheses It's like deja vu all over again: ter-development ment, all of them instead consolidated into
agreed to increase the bluff-line setbacks from Money from booming California planning, which Kekaha Kai State Park. He says it's a prime
30 feet to an average of 75 feet. The couple has simply replaced money from Tokyo in the limits sprawl and frees up a community's open example of the state's growing respect for its
also agreed to shield and minimize night-light frenzied hunt for Hawaiian trophy beachfront space; or programs of complex, comprehen natural resources.
ing to protect seabirds, and to plant $10,000 parcels. Getaway beaches for the intrepid and sive regional planning, such as the integrated "There's a heightened environmental con
worth of landscaping for each lot in order to the akamai become getaway neighborhoods management of California's 1,100-rnile coastal sciousness," Clark says. "People aren't as will
obscure the "farm dwellings" from the beach with "No trespassing" signs for the super-rich zone by the California Coastal Commission. ing to give up their nice beaches as they once
view planes. who don't have a clue what akamai means. As much as the federal government may be were."
In turn, the Friends of Donkey Beach agreed able to afford protecting environmental trea Clark, who has counted about 500 distinct
to drop their seemingly legitimate claim that In his year 2000 budget, President Clinton sures by buying them outright or disbursing beaches in the state, calls them Hawai'i's "most
the developers' use of agricultural land for lux proposed funding of $1 billion to acquire funds to the states to do so, at this moment, the important asset."
ury homes is contrary to the intent of state law. a slew of the nation's "natural treasures state can barely afford to maintain its existing Perhaps the state should recognize that fact
(The highly charged issue of the counties allow and local green spaces,'' with about half beach parks, much less buy more. more fully.
ing luxury homes in ag land is currently before the money going directly to states and "It's hard to set aside much money for land "Great beaches are all we have," Frankel
the state Supreme Court in Save Sunset Beach local governments. In fact, Clinton is simply acquisition,'' says Tim Johns, chairman of the notes. "They're what Hawai'i is all about. •
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But if you're expecting them to with the public - which is some
resort to "Limp Biskit" tactics, thing this concert seeks to rectify.
inserting "phat loops" or inviting a Typical of the Na Mele series, the
cliche-DJ over to crash their Dance lineup is stellar and features artists
Feast your eyes
Hall, you can kindly ... screw off! who team up with each other regu
The Dance Hall Crasher sound larly, alongside others who love to
o perhaps your love likes still features the double vocals and play together but seldom get the
some dancing with the din inspired harmonies of Elyse chance. Representing the latter,
ing. And maybe you're hav Rogers and Karina Denike, tight Cyril Pahinui will be pairing up
ing a bit of trouble with that ly backed by the guitar of Jason with Led Ka'apana. These two vir
hip? No fear, Iona Pear is Hammon, bassist Mikey Weiss tuosos have been friends for over
here. Next week, the award and drummer Gavin Hammon. 30 years, and when they start to
winning dance troupe is The result is a combination of rock, improvise off of each other's lines,
joining with Indigo Eurasian Cui classic punk and two-tone with the doors of Id ho'alu heaven swing
sine in staging Cafe Zen, a fund heavy influence on the band's wide - and anything can happen. 12-foot vert ramp, 6-foot miniramp
raising performance to kick off the ongoing maturation as songwriters. As Cyril once famously said to Led and street course competitions, but
company's new dance season. "People say our songs have this before they started a duet, "'Kay, with a twist: Pros and amateurs
Instead of merely feeding audience really happy quality - actually the brah, see you on the other side!" Sports compete in a "jam-style" format,
eyes, however, Cafe Zen is a com lyrics are a lot darker than they first Now living on Maui, George with as many as six girls skating at
plete sensory experience. The Pear appear," Rogers remarks. Kahumoku first established himself the same time, dropping in when
members, you see, will be doing a The songs on their new album, as a slack-key titan while playing they can. With $10,000 in cash and
dance that's all too familiar to the Purr, resonate with sass and wit, duets with his brother Moses. For prizes on the line, expect name
starving artist set - The Waiter. from the biting humor of "Real this show, he's teamed with former skaters like Cara-Beth Burnside
That is, the dancers will serve the You" to the sentiments of the islander and current LA resident (who is also an Olympic
meal, while portraying such char catchy "Beverly Kills," an urban Daniel Ho, with whom he recently iris rule, you know they snowboarder), Elissa Steamer,
acters as "Nirvana," "Yin," "Yang," anthem about the leeching, life recorded a very tasty duet CD. do. They also straight up Jen O'Brien (who's pictured
"Chakra Kahn" and (our personal sucking anti-power of Los Angeles. From Kaua'i, Ken Emerson is kick ass, as events in above), Jodi MacDonald, Candy
favorite) "Ignorant Bliss." Purr is also noticeably heavier in best known as half of The Emerson Hale'iwa this Sunday will Kramer, Jessica Krause and
The evening begins with a parts, more accurately reflecting Brothers, the duo that led the no doubt prove. Even as Hawai'i's Jamie Reyes to be drop
champagne reception and silent the band's fierce live shows. 1970s revival of acoustic steel gui the horde of touring pro ping in hard.
auction, to be followed by a spe Opening bands at this week's tar. With his current performing surfers and assorted wish If you're looking for information
cial menu created by chef Glenn show include Unit 101 and the partner, Michelle Edwards, Emer they-were noodles descend upon on the contest, how to join the
Chu. And while Indigo's food is Knumbskulls, both representing son will be bringing his steel and the North Shore for the Triple Girl's Skate Association or just
always something to behold, you the Hawai'i punk 'hood. Leaving slack talents to bear on standards Crown surf season, a much smaller want to see photos of hot skaters
can expect that the service on this sass and wit to the Crashers, these and originals. cadre of top-notch female skaters airing it out, check out the All Girl
evening will be truly extraordinary. local bands will supply mayhem Slack-key duets are like talking is arriving to take part in the All Skate Jam Web site at www.allgirl
This being the case, advance reser and spit. I spoke to Unit 101 gui story with guitars. Given the lineup Girl Skate Jam. skatejam.com. Otherwise, we'll see
vations are required by Nov. 15. tarist and vocalist Ryan at his day of legendary players, I've got a Founded three years ago by you there.
Indigo Eurasian Restaurant, gig at Mini Mart: feeling audiences will be talking skater/photographer Patty Segovia, Ali'i Beach Park and 1be
1121 Nu 'uanu Ave.: Sun 11/21, "We're looking forward to play about this one for years to come. the Jam is a series that now Northshore Marketplace: Sun 11/14
6-]0p.m. $75. 262-0110. ing with those guys. They put on -Stephen Fox includes stops on both U.S. coasts (events run throughout the day).
Free. 637-6376.
such a tight show . . . $1.14 is your and here in Hawai'i, with Japan
change, come again ... Yeah I'm Honolulu Academy ofA rts, 900 and Spain to be added into the mix
Concerts happy that two local bands have a S. Beretania St.: Sat 11/13, 7:30 next year.
chance to share the stage with a p.m. $15. 532-8700. The one-day event will include a Concerts: Dance Hall Crashers
great Mainland band like the
Dance Hall Crashers. We just wish
there were more big venues like
Dance Hall Days this to play."
This show is the Official Kickoff
hey're snotty and obnoxious, party for the Triple Crown of Surf
but irreverence is part of the ing. Thousands of dollars in prizes
charm. Pay attention, old fans will be given away, including a
and new: Berkeley's Dance surfboard, skateboard, bike and
Hall Crashers are branching bodyboard. All ages welcome.
out musically. The bandmem Come support punk, surf and
bers haven't considered them- spume! -Ric Valdez
selves a ska band in seven years. If World Cafe, 1130 N. Nimitz
you still think they sound like it, or Hwy.: Sat 11/13, 7 p.m. (doors open
kind of punk or pop, that's fine, 6-30 p.m.). $16.50. 599-4450.
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