Comments on: Poipu Sardine Can?

By: Rodney chew

Rodney chew — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:43:14 +0000

Hello my name is Rodney and i’m a studnt at kamehameha schools on oahu. I’m doing research for the road problems on Kauai on my project. And i find it a major problem to the island, because more and more people are coming in to the island causing traffic and traveling problems across the island. But if you could please email me or send me information on how people can help then i would appreciate it.thank you

By: bob

bob — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:18 +0000

Please stop building on Kauai, and destroying this beautiful island. It’s already overdeveloped as it is. Look what has happened to Oahu, and the Big Island! Kauai does not need any more Hotels or Condos.

The Horror!

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:32:32 +0000

Stop building new roads and use tax dollars to maintain existing roads.

Passing road improvements on to developers only raises the price for housing. They are not going to invest without a return. The return comes on the sale of the lots and structures. We need to develop our transportation by looking at developing a “country road” concept with cane roads. Sand or gravel can be used to support this type road structure. How about using our sugar cane rail right of ways for transportation? We have ohana that have invested in restoring the equipment why not the rails? Sounds fun to me.

Development - Visitor’s come to Kauai because of this islands God given beauty. Our tax dollars, along with private sources, bring people to our island. This is new money for our economy and jobs for those that are native to Kauai and for those that have chosen to be part of the Kauai Ohana.

Everything beautiful that brings people to this island will be gone if controls on development are not implemented. Once we have allowed our beauty to be developed (i.e. million dollar houses taking the place of our mountain views, houses taking our tree, houses taking our native flowers, walls from private communities that obstruct views) people that travel to Kauai will eventually have to love looking at houses. Just look at Oahu. Oahu’s beauty, for the most part, and spirit of aloha is gone.

The beauty of the aina and aloha of Kauai are ours. We need a government that lives within its means and acts on the resident’s behalf not tourist. If we do not get serious about our islands Ohana and our Aina, Kauai will be consumed by the highest bidders that will eventually dictate how the rest of us will live on an island with only our memories.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:50:29 +0000

KAIULANI LEE as RACHEL CARSON: I believe that natural beauty has a necessary place in the development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we destroy beauty, whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of this Earth, we’ve retarded some part of man’s spiritual growth. In contemplating the exceeding beauty of this Earth, I have found calmness and courage. For there is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, in the ebb and flow of tides, in the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. The assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Mankind has gone very far into an artificial world of his own creation. He has sought to insulate himself in his cities of steel and concrete, away from the realities of earth, water, the growing seed. And intoxicated with a sense of his own power, he seems to be going farther and farther into experiments toward the destruction of himself and his world. There is certainly no single remedy for this condition. And I can offer no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe, and I do believe, that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and the realities of this universe about us, the less taste we shall have for its destruction.

That’s what I want to say.

By: Sheila Holtzman

Sheila Holtzman — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:05:35 +0000

Why don’t our leaders address the traffic issue? The only way to significantly affect the traffic problem will be to build new roads and/or enhance existing roads. Although everyone complains about the traffic problem, little is done to improve it. A first step would be to conduct traffic studies like the one done in Poipu for other areas of congestion. Then follow up with an action plan to add or improve roads!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:31:37 +0000

Kukui’ula actually said “Down to Earth million dollar homes” in an article in the garden island. A spokesperson said “We can’t afford not to do the right thing”. I agree, so fill in what you’ve dug up, move inland, and start building affordable housing. This unnecessary greed driven development, if allowed to continue, will be the exact same insurance nightmare that the state of Florida has everywhere right now.It is impossible to get affordable insurance ANYWHERE on the Gulf Coast or the Atlantic side of Florida. Everything is for sale and nobody is buying. These developers will never stop building until we rise up and stop them. Do you personally believe that all development should stop right now? I would guess at least 65% of people living on island would answer yes to that question. Let’s find out.

By: kimo

kimo — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:03:49 +0000

KONA IS CORRECT !

By: Kona

Kona — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:20:56 +0000

Wider roads or more roads are not for the people of Kaua’i, they are for the developers! Make no mistake, if you improve the infrastructure, THEY WILL COME! When a developer helps fund a new road or puts in a turn lane, everyone acts like they did it for us and they are a good neighbor. They did it so they can bring in thousands of more people, THEY needed the improvment. If it was not for over-development , we would not all be sitting in traffic.
Look at Honolulu with all their freeways and mega high-ways, they are still sitting in traffic. If you build them, it will just JUSTIFY over-development.
What we need is a moratorium on ALL development except affordable housing, limit the amount of rental cars on the island, and keep our 2 lanes. (and add some cane haul roads).

By: Kimo

Kimo — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:59:48 +0000

Well they pulled the plug on re-developing the CoCo palms resort. They say its because the County wouldn’t approve a fancy spa on the premises. …hum?

http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2007/09/14/news/news01.txt

By: Austin Owen

Austin Owen — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:57:59 +0000

We need a high road literally and figuretively.A road around the base of the mountain that has access to each town. Also development needs to be stopped or severely regulated so that we don’t kill the goose that laid the Golden Egg.The only reason people return to Kauai is because we are not Maui and not Oahu, So we need to stop this head long rush into Becoming Maui!!