Bill Text: HI HR175 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: COMMENDING THE KA IWI COALITION FOR SAVING EAST OAHU'S KA IWI COAST.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-04-05 - Resolution adopted in final form. [HR175 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-HR175-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	175
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

Commending the ka iwi coalition for saving east oahu's ka iwi coast.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Ka Iwi Coast is the biggest and last undeveloped stretch of open coastline wilderness on the Island of Oahu and extends from Portlock to Makapu‘u; and

 

     WHEREAS, the beauty of the mauka and makai sides of the Ka Iwi coastline are of significant cultural and environmental value; and

 

     WHEREAS, attempts to develop the Ka Iwi Coast have been consistently repelled for the past 40 years by an active Hawaii Kai and Oahu community; and

 

     WHEREAS, beginning with the “Save Sandy Beach” initiative, an outpouring of support from the community was mobilized to preserve the Ka Iwi Coast; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 1988 Oahu citizens voted overwhelmingly – upon threats to turn land near Sandy Beach into a luxury residential subdivision – to rezone the area into a preservation district, and was agreed to by the Honolulu City Council; and

 

     WHEREAS, the 1988 Hawaii State Legislature also responded by unanimously passing a resolution asking the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop a park plan for the Ka Iwi Coast, which led to the State of Hawaii purchasing 305 acres at Awāwamalu for incorporation into the Park ten years later; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 1995 the Ka Iwi Action Council led another successful community effort to halt development plans for twelve parcels along the Ka Iwi coast; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 2006, the Ka Iwi Coalition along with massive members of the community launched “No Cabins on Ka Iwi” in response to a proposal to build mauka cliff-side cabins on preservation lands, and resulted in the City & County not permitting the cabins; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Ka Iwi Coalition, an entity within Livable Hawaii Kai Hui, worked with the Lingle Administration to protect the makai lands by re-designating them from “urban” to “conservation"; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 2010, after a developer purchased 182 acres of the Ka Iwi mauka lands; one year later Ka Iwi Coalition initiated discussion with the Trust for Public Land to purchase the 182 acres; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 2015, the Ka Iwi Coalition launched a “Save Ka Iwi Coast” fund drive run by island-wide grassroots volunteers pledging to raise the final $500,000 required to purchase the land along with the $3.5 million contributed by the State of Hawaii and the City & County of Honolulu; and

 

     WHEREAS, the fund-raising campaign succeeded in just 8 weeks attracting more than one-thousand separate donors, three-fourths contributing less than $200; and Livable Hawaii Kai Hui now acts as owner and manager over the two parcels, with the City & County and the Trust for Public Land remaining co-conservation easement holders; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2016, that this body hereby commends the Ka Iwi Coalition and Livable Hawaii Kai Hui for its tireless efforts to protect and preserve Hawaii Kai’s Ka Iwi Coast, and other cultural sites under its protection, and thanks it for its close relationship with the community to ensure the continuous physical and visual access to the unique coastal and cultural resources of East Oahu into perpetuity.

 

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

COMMENDING THE KA IWI COALITION FOR SAVING EAST OAHU'S KA IWI COAST.