tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post5515800669238151470..comments2023-10-17T04:51:08.765-10:00Comments on KauaiEclectic: Musings: High RollersJoan Conrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-49091769697745957482011-04-02T17:00:13.145-10:002011-04-02T17:00:13.145-10:00Ward Churchill. He probably has plenty of time on ...Ward Churchill. He probably has plenty of time on his hands. Whotta putz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-41771011787919472052011-04-02T07:34:01.159-10:002011-04-02T07:34:01.159-10:00Low cost housing? shifting ground..... what about ...Low cost housing? shifting ground..... what about preserving ag land? <br />Placing a population density far from the town limits mauka has never been seriously considered, it would contribute to sprawl. The arguments against Anaina Hou are the same ones that were used against the Princeville Library. <br /><br />How do we get people to vote against their own best interest,lie,spin and smear.<br /><br />Played golf last week,crowded, 80% locals enjoying the "amusement park" that somehow hasn't had the terrible effect on traffic and public peace and quiet that was predicted. Too bad we couldn't attend a lecture, show or surf movie afterwards in the same beautiful environment.......or for some of the posters here a two day Noam Chomsky /Ward Churchill LectureAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-16351796911588946652011-04-02T05:18:07.881-10:002011-04-02T05:18:07.881-10:00why spend the communities time and money designing...why spend the communities time and money designing community plans if they mean squat? The area was supposed to be for affordable housing, and Kilauea is the ONLY COMMUNITY left on the northshore.We need the space for afforable housing,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-90714786951192047072011-04-01T20:17:30.658-10:002011-04-01T20:17:30.658-10:00The anti Pavilon arguments are the same I heard op...The anti Pavilon arguments are the same I heard opposing the Princeville library, developing ag/open space, traffic,crime, what about low cost housing?<br />It all came down to the nimbys distantly adjacent to the project who don't want to have any distant sound of humanity disrupt their psyches. Even though they bought the property cheap because it was next to light industrial.<br />The benefits of this project are for the working class people who live 1/2 mile away in a crowded town with not many amenities and a crumbling infrastructural base.<br />Certainly not the amenities of the estate owners who can put on private/commercial parties,private businesses, vacation rentals and fly to the mainland 4 times a year for shopping and cultural events if their 10 seat home theater breaks down .<br />If you want a library drive to Kapaa .<br />If you want a KCC like performance facility drive to Puhi .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-92212070688635268792011-04-01T17:07:28.942-10:002011-04-01T17:07:28.942-10:00"some folks on the radio talking about how th..."some folks on the radio talking about how the amphitheater and mini golf course are desirable because there’s “nothing to do” on the North Shore"<br /><br />WTF? Sorry but if they feel that way, probably shouldn't be on the 'lil island of Kauai. Want "action"? So. Cal. awaits...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-86453156960379053012011-04-01T09:27:32.640-10:002011-04-01T09:27:32.640-10:00This Nikki sounds like a real peach.
Good that you...This Nikki sounds like a real peach.<br />Good that you are exposing him.<br /><br />But, why Porter? He's done so much for ag. On balance he's one of the good guys. Certainly he's far far better than many other developers you could have gotten there. Looks like his enemies are ramping up a slander machine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-13589329058753273032011-04-01T05:42:36.915-10:002011-04-01T05:42:36.915-10:00"Now compare that to what it looked like when..."Now compare that to what it looked like when Nicky bought it nine years ago."<br /><br />Uh, looks a he'll of a lot nicer now?<br />The resort is beautiful now that is for sure, but it was done with what sounds like fraud ... how come the house got to be expanded on the ground floor, below the flood hazard elevation? Why didn't the county require him to comply with the flood laws? wonder why? <br />?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-47610534215361269702011-04-01T05:28:42.473-10:002011-04-01T05:28:42.473-10:00County Charter regarding Council proceedings "...County Charter regarding Council proceedings "the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire membership shall be necessary to take any action."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-26593655368073097232011-03-31T21:30:42.874-10:002011-03-31T21:30:42.874-10:00"Now compare that to what it looked like when..."Now compare that to what it looked like when Nicky bought it nine years ago."<br /><br />Uh, looks a he'll of a lot nicer now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-23038211599227175082011-03-31T20:37:04.949-10:002011-03-31T20:37:04.949-10:00the question on our mind re: MZB is if they will i...the question on our mind re: MZB is if they will impose any changes to their already imposing ocean access policies.irknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-3630276215882748112011-03-31T17:26:18.812-10:002011-03-31T17:26:18.812-10:00Dr. Shibai
March 31, 2011 2:40 PM
perhaps, but o...Dr. Shibai<br /><br />March 31, 2011 2:40 PM<br /><br />perhaps, but other than the promise of a job for a relative or self by an elected official, I'm damn sure no actual monies were exchanged....unless stories about Maryanne are true but she was a mayor not an unpaid volunteer planning commissioner...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-64072048395917894022011-03-31T14:40:39.456-10:002011-03-31T14:40:39.456-10:00Why does Kauai attract so many high rolling scam a...Why does Kauai attract so many high rolling scam artists?<br /><br />Because we have easily manipulated planning commission members and local government who are looking for the "trickle down effect" into their pockets.<br /><br />Dr. ShibaiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-47212136420527144352011-03-31T11:30:56.099-10:002011-03-31T11:30:56.099-10:00I forgot to mention I'll be on KKCR this after...I forgot to mention I'll be on KKCR this afternoon, around 4:30 p.m., talking about the process that selected the three nominees for Mina's seat, Kilauea development and more. Tune in!Joan Conrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-64784691412110509132011-03-31T10:06:11.582-10:002011-03-31T10:06:11.582-10:00Sounds more like the same old ag land profiteering...<i>Sounds more like the same old ag land profiteering that we’ve seen carried out ad nauseum here on the Garden Island.</i><br /><br /><br />Exactly. Profiteering and plenty of it. Or as Hal Rothman wrote:<br /><br /><br /><i>Tourism is a devil’s bargain, not only in the twentieth-century American West but throughout the nation and the world. Despite its reputation as a panacea for the economic ills of places that have lost their way in the postindustrial world or for those that never found it, tourism typically fails to meet the expectations of communities and regions that embrace it as an economic strategy. Regions, communities and locales welcome tourism as an economic boon, only to find that it irrevocably changes them in unanticipated and uncontrollable ways.<br /><br />As a viable option for moribund or declining places, tourism promises much but delivers only a little, often in forms different from what its advocates anticipate. Its local beneficiaries come from a small segment of the population, “the growth coalition,” the landowners, developers, planners, builders, real estate sales and management interests, bankers, brokers and others. The capital that sustains these interests comes from elsewhere, changing local relationships and the values that underpin them and their vision of place.<br /><br />The embrace of tourism triggers a contest for the soul of a place. Although an amorphous concept, it holds one piece of the core of the devil’s bargain of tourism as a form of living.<br /><br />Tourism is the most colonial of colonial economies, not because of the sheer physical difficulty or the pain or humiliation intrinsic in its labor but because of its psychic and social impact on people and their places. Tourism and the social structure it proves transform locals into people who look like themselves but who act and believe differently as they learn to market their place and its, and their, identity. <br /><br />Despite often seductively quaint and romantic settings, seeming harmlessness, and a reputation as a “clean” industry, tourism belongs to the modern and postindustrial, postmodern worlds; its social structures and cultural ways are those of an extractive industry. Though its environmental by-products are not the tailings piles of uranium mining, in the West they include the spread of real estate development, the gobbling up of open space, the traffic and sprawl of expansive suburban communities, and the transformation of the physical environment into roads and reservoirs that provide activity and convenience for visitors. </i><br /><br />- Hal K. Rothman<br /><i>Devil’s Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West</i>Dawsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-28798214901370964352011-03-31T09:48:31.686-10:002011-03-31T09:48:31.686-10:00Mayor Babooze seems to be unaware of many things t...Mayor Babooze seems to be unaware of many things that affect Kauai residents. What bubble does he live in?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-69671902436850922862011-03-31T09:18:35.943-10:002011-03-31T09:18:35.943-10:00The minigolf course was re-zoned from industrial t...The minigolf course was re-zoned from industrial to AG by Mr Porter.. The alternative could have been gas stations, grocery stores, or worse, full blown industrial park.<br /><br />Leave it to Joan to villianize a thoughtful gesture because it's not what she envisioned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-16141558272829655452011-03-31T09:09:33.408-10:002011-03-31T09:09:33.408-10:00Joan you absolutely nailed the topics in today'...Joan you absolutely nailed the topics in today's post !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-82157020837151737252011-03-31T07:53:36.530-10:002011-03-31T07:53:36.530-10:00Ha ha. Joan you are so clever for integrating so ...Ha ha. Joan you are so clever for integrating so many topics in one article! Keep up the good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com