Kailua Neighborhood Board Meeting

Thursday, August 4th

7:00pm
Kailua District Park (Multi-Purpose Building)
21 S. Kainalu Drive

Hamakua Drive

Have you been noticing the changes on Hamakua Drive?

• TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS at Hamakua & Hekili St. intersection (near Foodland) are numerous! - -after tracking over a year, traffic has been getting progressively worse to the point there have been accidents occuring "on a weekly basis"  -- and this is BEFORE the opening of Whole Foods OR Target!!
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car and Twogood Kayak & Canoes have both relocated to Hamakua Drive from their long-established Daiei / DonQuijote location -- with more cars entering & exiting driveways on Hamakua, be CAREFUL -- We must slow down or Go Down!
• Where have our farm animals gone?? Is it really true that their 50-year(?) lease expired and was NOT RENEWED by Kaneohe Ranch?  The area is now slated for HIKING TRAILS infringing on residents' privacy? -- hmmmm

Hundreds Welcome Hilo Target

http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/hundreds-welcome-hilo-target.html
yet the article DOES NOT (and of course would not) write to the negative impacts.  Scroll down to read community feedback -- people are AKAMAI to the detrimental ramifications Big Boxes bring!

Comments posted on July 20th & 21st:

• "i live in the mainland. I do not wanna come back to home town of hilo and see a damn TARGET!"

• "Walmart already closed down the "mom and pop" stores in East Hawaii. At least now they will have some healthy competition with Target. Walmart has been ripping off East Hawaii for too long. -- Oh, and the jobs Target is going to provide may be desperately needed...but guess what?? The wages are still keeping people as "working poor" and living in poverty. These are not real jobs...."
• "The new jobs created by the Target store will be offset by the loss of jobs elsewhere as competitors trim back employees due to new competion and small stores go belly up.  Overall, it can mean a net loss of jobs due to economy of scale. -- Target will offer much better shopping experiences to people who like cheap stuff, but it's not any particular benefit to the community other than than servicing that market."
• "The Good ---- Brings in "jobs" that hilo desperately needs !
  The Bad ---- One step closer to becoming like "mainland" . Shuts down "mom and pops" stores cause they cant compete against "big name" stores ."
• I don't "do" Target no's mo's!     
  Target Homophobia? CEO Gregg Steinhafel Defends $150K Donation To Anti-Gay Politician, LGBT Community Angered
• Target Boycott Movement Grows Following Donation to Support "Antigay" Candidate
• Target's $150,000 Donation To Fund Anti-Gay Politics Lady Gaga axing Target deal over anti-gay donations

3-Talk meeting

Tuesday, July 28th

7:00pm

St. John Lutheran Church (1004 Kailua Road)

District 3’s City Council Member, Ikaika Anderson, will be holding his 3-TALK meeting.  These meetings allow anyone to personally ask questions, comment, voice concerns, etc. to our own City Council Member.  Our community needs to continue to raise questions and concerns to Ikaika about the future development of Kailua!!!

StarAdvertiser-article

July 20, 2011

 

Kawainui Marsh restoration planned

 

By Gary T. Kubota

 

State and federal officials have formed a partnership to restore a portion of the 800-acre Kawainui Marsh in Kailua — the habitat for four endangered water birds.

The agreement on the Kawainui Marsh Environmental Restoration Project, signed Friday, will help the endangered koloa maoli, or Hawaiian duck; aeo, or Hawaiian stilt; alae ula, or Hawaiian moorhen; and alae keokeo, or Hawaiian coot.

The 37.8-acre project also calls for increasing the endangered bird population, creating more scenic open space, reducing upland runoff into coastal reefs and removing alien weeds from the marsh. State officials said the project's cost will range from $4 million to $6 million, with the federal government paying 75 percent of the cost and the state the remainder.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be responsible for the contracting and construction of the project, which is expected to start this year or next.

Laura Stevens, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, said the project will serve as the foundation for educational, environmental, cultural, recreational, community and volunteer efforts to restore the wildlife habitat in the marsh. Stevens said that without restoration the marsh will remain in a state of degradation with little value for wildlife and community use.

Work on the project will include the development of 11 terraced shallow ponds on 24 acres, an earthen berm system accessible by light-duty maintenance vehicles, and a system suppling water to the ponds using two solar-powered well pumps and water-level control structures.

Kawainui Marsh was an inland sea about 4,000 years ago, according to scientists, but soil runoff and an accumulation of sand formed a sandbar that eventually became Kailua town and Coconut Grove.

State officials said the project implements portions of wildlife habitat restoration in the 1994 Kawainui Marsh Master and Hawaii Endangered Waterbird Recovery plans.