Open Community Meeting
To Move The Kilauea Town Plan into Action
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 – 7:00 PM
At the Kilauea Neighborhood Gym

The Kilauea Town Plan, developed through community consensus and adopted over a year ago by the County Council and Mayor, details the future hopes of Kilauea residents. The main points described in the Plan were the need to provide affordable housing, maintain our rural character and preserve open space.

Other concerns include how we as a community can:

• Provide our own healthy, local food supply

• Generate a portion of our own energy needs

• Preserve our agricultural lands and water resources

• Help to grow and support local businesses so that we can provide more opportunity for everyone, especially the youth

The goal of this meeting is to craft and launch a master action plan on how to realize the dream set out in the Town Plan as we move into the future.

Please come out, your voice is important!

For more information
Including a link to The Kilauea Town Plan
Please visit www.MalamaKauai.org or call 828-0685

A comprehensive process is now taking place on Kauai's North Shore in the town of Kilauea. A world class sustainability planning team from WSP Environmental will be on island the week of January 14th to help develop a comprehensive, action plan in the main areas of food, housing, energy, land use and economic development for the small town of a few thousand.

Of course this is something that affects the entire community so naturally having a series of community meetings is in order. The first of those public gatherings for Kilauea will happen on Tuesday, January 15th, 7:00 PM at the Kilauea Neighborhood Gym. Additionally, a series of smaller meetings will also take place, engaging local community and business leaders as well as lifetime residents. Anyone that is interested in building sustainable communities is invited to attend. And though Kilauea is the town in question, the general approach and process would be similar for most towns on Kauai.

Updates will be provided on this process as it unfolds but for now know that a comprehensive, town-level approach is being undertaken. Perhaps now we can figure out how all the ideas and efforts that have been happening at more of the individual level can work for an entire township here on Kauai.

For more information on the meeting see the events calendar section of this website.

FYI - Sierra Club Communication (see 1/9/08 Agenda Item lll-1. )

December 30, 2007

Theodore Daligdig, Chairperson
And Members of the Planning Commission
County of Kaua`i
4444 Rice Street
Lihu`e, HI 96766

RE: Site Visit Agenda for Moloaa Bay Ranch - Amended SMA Use Permit (SMA(U)-2006-2) for an after-the-fact irrigation pond, pump house and rock wall; trim and top ironwood trees; planting of landscaping and a vegetative barrier along a coastal trail easement.

Dear Commissioners:

We would like to offer some suggestions for the proposed site visit to ensure that all the issues are comprehensively addressed. A list of features is outlined below which we hope you will consider including on the agenda. A brief justification for each item is provided because conversation on-site will be restricted.

In accordance with the January 10, 2006 Staff Report Conclusions & Recommendations, Condition #1, commissioners wanted to ensure that “Piecemeal development of the property shall not be considered.” Other conditions approved by Commissioners are cited from that report below and pages 11-15 are attached for your reference.

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED - TO BE RESCHEDULED SOON. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE EMAIL INFOMALAMAKAUAI.ORG">INFOMALAMAKAUAI.ORG

MAHALO AND SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE!

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Description of December's meeting:

Thursday night a few groups converged in Kilauea to hold the first Ko'olau District Sustainability Meeting at the Malama Kauai Center.

The meeting brought together members of Kauai's Food Forum, Eco-Roundtable and the LEGS Sustainability Conference to begin laying the groundwork for implementing real community projects as part of a comprehensive plan to promote sustainability in the area.

After a short update on how the space, formerly Guava Kai Plantation, is being made available as a community facility for supporting sustainable efforts, the main group split-up. One team focused on developing a community garden for the district and the other discussed details of a local currency and exchange system.

The community garden project included many farmers and dedicated individuals that are actively involved in this kind of work including Glen Hontz, organizer of the Kauai Food Forum. Also in attendance was Jillian Seals who is heading up the Malama Kauai Farmer Incubator Program. This program is actively training a new group of ten future farmers in January and helping the get them their own plots to caretake as part of the program. Additionally, the idea is to provide markets for the new farmers by way of the Kauai Farmers' Coop, a new project also opening to the public in early 2008.

Thursday night a few groups converged in Kilauea to hold the first Ko'olau District Sustainability Meeting at the Malama Kauai Center.

The meeting brought together members of Kauai's Food Forum, Eco-Roundtable and the LEGS Sustainability Conference to begin laying the groundwork for implementing real community projects as part of a comprehensive plan to promote sustainability in the area.

After a short update on how the space, formerly Guava Kai Plantation, is being made available as a community facility for supporting sustainable efforts, the main group split-up. One team focused on developing a community garden for the district and the other discussed details of a local currency and exchange system.

The community garden project included many farmers and dedicated individuals that are actively involved in this kind of work including Glen Hontz, organizer of the Kauai Food Forum. Also in attendance was Jillian Seals who is heading up the Malama Kauai Farmer Incubator Program. This program is actively training a new group of ten future farmers in January and helping the get them their own plots to caretake as part of the program. Additionally, the idea is to provide markets for the new farmers by way of the Kauai Farmers' Coop, a new project also opening to the public in early 2008.

Eco-Roundtable / Food Forum's Community Action Coalition

Koolau District Sustainability Meeting

(Koolua District ~ Anahola through Kilauea)

Thursday, December 20 @ 6:30 pm

Where: Malama Kauai Community Resource Center
Formerly Guava Kai Plantation @ 4900 Kuawa Road, Kilauea

Objectives:

* Find out who is doing what to secure sustainability in the district of Koolau
* Organize and coordinate efforts in the Koolau District
* Find a way to express your passion through action

Bring:

* Picnic-style dinner for sharing sustenance
* Open mind and heart ready to create solutions
* Information on current resources and plans for Koolau District's sustainability

Contact:
Suzanna Kennedy, 828.6542, suzannakhawaii.rr.com">suzannakhawaii.rr.com

Add your name to Koolau District e-mailing list:
Keone Kealoha, keonemalamakauai.org">keonemalamakauai.org

Posted: Thursday, Nov 29, 2007 - 08:46:39 am HST

Path unearthed burial sites
by Nathan Eagle - THE GARDEN ISLAND

Kaua‘i County Council members hammered the mayor’s administration yesterday over a lack of responsiveness to questions on the multi-use path — a project to include various segments from Ahukini to Anahola that is in its second phase of construction.

County Administrative Assistant Gary Heu, County Engineer Donald Fujimoto and County Deputy Attorney Harrison Kawate responded to concerns during some three hours of discussion at the Historic County Building that included burial discoveries, liability and a new task force.

During construction of the Kealia to Kapa‘a segment, human remains were found three separate times in two locations, a draft report by the project archaeologist states.

Three burials were discovered during grading for the Kealia Beach comfort station along the toe of the mauka side railroad berm.

“This was not a surprise as the soils in the area are beach sands, typical for a Hawaiian burial site,” states the report, which was made public during the council committees meeting yesterday.

Scientific Consultant Services, which conducts archaeological studies throughout Hawai‘i, recommended the burials be moved away from the site of a proposed septic system.

The state Historic Preservation Department disagreed, the report states, and asked the burials be left in place as long as a 12-foot buffer existed. The contractor built a protective boulder and sand structure at the site.

Ko'olau
Kilauea to Anahola

Ko’olau District Sustainability Meeting
(Ko’olau District ~ Anahola through Kilauea)

Thursday, December 20 @ 6:30 pm

A sustainable Kaua’i means living responsibly within the limits our beautiful island can support

Where:
Malama Kauai Community Resource Center
Formerly Guava Kai Plantation @ 4900 Kuawa Road, Kilauea

Objectives:

Share information about current sustainability projects in our district
Identify issues that need to be addressed in our district
Organize and coordinate action teams to address issues
Express our passion for Kauai through wise, cooperative action

Bring:

Picnic-style dinner for sharing sustenance
Open mind and heart
Information on current resources and plans for Kauai sustainability

Contacts:
Suzanna Kennedy, 828.6542, suzannakhawaii.rr.com">suzannakhawaii.rr.com
To add your name to Ko’olau District e-mailing list: keonemalamakauai.org">keonemalamakauai.org

For more information on current sustainability plans and projects: www.MalamaKauai.org

Posted: Friday, Sep 28, 2007 - 11:04:40 pm HST
BLNR decision puts farmers in jeopardy

by Nathan Eagle - THE GARDEN ISLAND
Citing a failure to provide liability insurance, the Hawai‘i Board of Land and Natural Resources yesterday in Honolulu unanimously voted to revoke Kilauea Irrigation Company’s 22-year-old permit for a water transportation system within the Kaloko ditch right of way and Pu‘u Ka Ele Stream.

The decision puts in dire straights more than 20 Kilauea farmers and other residents who depend on the efficient and affordable water supply from the privately owned Kaloko reservoir.

Two local farmers — Philip Davies and David Whatmore — flew to O‘ahu to provide testimony at the meeting and dozens more sent letters asking the board to delay its decision.

“This starts the second phase of the Kaloko disaster ... but this was avoidable,” Whatmore said. “Pflueger got everything he asked for and we got our livelihoods taken away from us.”

In an Aug. 24 letter, William McCorriston — a Honolulu attorney representing Pflueger Properties, owners of part of the land beneath the Kaloko reservoir — demanded the state cease and desist diverting water into the Kaloko ditch system which outlets water into the Kaloko reservoir.

He deemed the demand necessary for safety reasons related to preventing another tragedy similar to the March 2006 Kaloko dam breach that killed seven Kaua‘i residents.

McCorriston was unavailable for comment at press time.