{"id":7293,"date":"2020-09-29T17:46:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2021-01-08T22:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T22:28:36","slug":"brookfield_development_unnecessary_monstracity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/29\/brookfield_development_unnecessary_monstracity\/","title":{"rendered":"30 new high-rise buildings in the past seven years . . . Honolulu . . . ENOUGH! Brookfield proposal will be straw that breaks our back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOur infrastructure is strained-to-bursting . . . there needs to be an immediate moratorium on all high-rise building in Honolulu\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Irresponsible government . . . irresponsible development; 30 new high-rises in the past seven years, and now the City Council and Mayor Caldwell are about to bless a 400' monstrosity on Piikoi that will further strain our overburdened infrastructure
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The following is a reprint of our testimony submitted yesterday to Honolulu's mayor and city council, asking that they not approve the proposed Brookfield development project on Piikoi and Ala Moana (there will be a hearing on Wednesday, September 30, 2020; the public is invited to participate in a number of different ways.\u00a0 Please click here<\/a> to see how you can participate)<\/span><\/p>\n

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TESTIMONY<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Katherine Lindell, Editor<\/span>
\nHawaii Ocean News<\/span>
\nHonolulu, Hawaii<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday, September 27, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding:<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Ala Moana Plaza Development<\/span>
\nFILE NUMBER: 2020\/SDD-45
\nOWNER\/APPLICANT: GGP Ala Moana, LLC \/ Brookfield Properties
\nAGENT: R. M. Towill Corporation (Keith Kurahashi)
\nLOCATION: 451 Piikoi Street and 1450 Ala Moana Boulevard \u2013 Kalia
\nTAX MAP KEYS: 2-3-038: 003 and 014 (por.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Aloha Mayor Caldwell and members of Honolulu's City Council, <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear where you would get authorization from the people who live in this community to build a 400\u2019 monstrosity akin to the Brookfield proposal. I can assure you that if a referendum were held right now, there would be few, if any from this community, who would vote to approve this development. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find anyone in our grassroots Honolulu community who would have voted for the development of any of the thirty-plus buildings that the city council has rubber stamped into existence over the past ten years.\u00a0\u00a0 Thirty buildings, and the only ROI for Honolulu has been more pollution, overpopulation, and an island infrastructure now beyond overburdened. A government of, by, and for the people of Honolulu?\u00a0 Seriously?
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There is a pressing need for our leadership to listen to the people who trusted them with positions of power. Substituting \u201cpublic hearings\u201d for real public participation in the form of legitimate referendum is a slight-of-hand that is getting old and fools no one.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is supposed to be a government of, by and for the people of Honolulu. It is not. The mayor and his rubber-stamp city council have placed themselves at the beck and call of wealthy private financial self interests for decades, effectively excluding the city\u2019s public from the decisions that would permanently alter their community and their quality of life. Enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no merit in a proposal that would strain an already overburdened city infrastructure, that would do nothing but create even more pollution in our city, and would never receive the approval of the people of this community. <\/span><\/p>\n

We strongly oppose this development, as it benefits no one but the principals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Respectfully,<\/span>
\nKatherine Lindell<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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