The former executive secretary of the Honolulu Planning Commission says a proposed 1,200 home development in Laie being pushed by the development arm of the Mormon Church would strike at the heart of Honolulu’s planning goals laid out since 1977.
Here’s what Chuck Prentiss wrote in an email yesterday:
I have to seriously question the proposal to build a 1,200 home community in Laie. In my experience at the Honolulu City Planning Commission, the “powers to be” in Laie have never supported the City’s General Plan for Oahu, and it appears that history is repeating itself.
At the heart of the General Plan (adopted in 1977) is its provision for distribution of Island population that calls for full development of urban Honolulu (the “PUC”), a second city in Ewa, and slow growth in other areas. The pertinent point is that all projected population growth is provided for in the plan. If growth is permitted in slow growth areas such as Laie, then it must be subtracted from the other areas because what you do in one area affects all others. If not, then we would be planning for a population in some areas that is greater than what is forecast to occur.
Aside from questions of water supply, sewage treatment, and highway improvement costs, a large development in Laie would change the overall Islandwide growth plans. It would jeopardize the second city concept and possibly even the T.O.D. (Transit Oriented Development) and the need for the rail system. We should not lose site of the big picture embodied in the General Plan that all levels of government and the private sector have been working to implement since 1977.
Chuck Prentiss, Retired
Former Executive Secretary, Honolulu Planning Commission
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What’s the point of developing a plan if it’s not followed?
Kihei in Maui is a prime example. There was supposed to be no development makai of the highway. An exemption was made for one project and that was all it took to kill that idea.
What should have been a open view plane and parks is now an obstructed, cluttered mess.
The governmental agencies that were supposed to protect public interests completely failed in their duties.
Self-promotion anxieties be damned: this piece, which I wrote in 2009, explores the issues Prentiss is concerned about and serves, I hope, as a decent primer on the issue.
http://honoluluweekly.com/cover/2009/07/malaekahanaville/
Thanks! That was a great piece, and it’s still being passed around out here on our end of the island.
I saw those articles. Keep them coming. You can’t depend on mainstream media because they have all been bought.
I noticed Hawaii Reserves has their own http://.EnvisionLaie.com It’s all good, warm and fuzzy. No controversy at all. What a big lie!
I hope I did not waste my vote for Carlisle.
good article. by the way… Why do we see this?
“La’ie [sic] ”
La’ie is the correct spelling/pronunciation.
No Kam Hwy property owner is safe from seizure – from Kahalu’u to Haleiwa if EnvisionLaie aka Little Utah kicks in.
Kam Hwy is too narrow.
Condemnation will come for road expansion.
BTW, I got Hawaii Reserves and BYU-Hawaii figured out. http://www.EnvisionLaie.com and their facebook page is artful deceit.
All the information therein is beautifully manicured and fertilized. There is no hint of intentional deceit or the widespread opposition to Envision Laie.
This PR hoax is merely an extension of Laie’s insistence it is a kingdom unto itself. That is all it matters.
Big Braddah, we apologize. We haven’t found a reliable web solution for diacritical marks. The correct spelling is actually L?‘ie, of course…if anyone has a line on a web publishing program that can convert the kahak? from text to web, I’d love to hear about it. rcarlson@honoluluweekly.com