The Friends of Makakilo Asking Hawaii LUC For New Hearing On Ho‘opili
This motion for Order to Show Cause (OSC) was filed on Thursday July 23, 2015 by Dr. Kioni Dudley in the docket A06-771 D.R. Horton – Schuler Homes for the project referred to as Ho`opili in `Ewa, O`ahu. The OSC asks that the Land Use Commission consider whether it appears, based on the information provided in the Motion, that the Petitioner has violated or failed to comply with conditions in the decision and order approving the Petition.
Hoopili Critics persists with challenge
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One of the main opponents of building 11,750 homes at the planned Ho‘opili community on Oahu’s Ewa Plain wants to re-contest a key state approval in hopes of blocking the project, which obtained city zoning in May.
Community group The Friends of Makakilo Inc., led by Kioni Dudley, filed a motion with the state Land Use Commission on Thursday asking the LUC to hold a fresh hearing over whether Ho‘opili should be allowed to go forward on what is 1,553 acres of prime farmland.
Dudley also contends that Mayor Kirk Caldwell and City Council members all received campaign contributions from construction industry entities in favor of Ho‘opili, thus raising questions about the review and approval of the traffic study.
“Our arguments are powerful, convincing, and backed up with evidence that is too solid to be assailed,” Dudley said in a written announcement.
Heavily congested traffic on the H-1 freeway has been a huge concern, and is the key issue Dudley said constitutes grounds for reopening the case.
Dudley, who unsuccessfully contested Ho‘opili at LUC hearings in 2011 and 2012 with expert witnesses in conjunction with a similar effort by the Sierra Club and then-state Sen. Clayton Hee, said that he should have had an opportunity to challenge the traffic report during initial hearings but that the report was produced after the commission approved the housing project.
The traffic report, which is an updated version of an initial draft produced by Austin Tsutsumi and Associates for Horton and presented to the LUC, was to be submitted to and deemed acceptable by the state Department of Transportation, the city Department of Transportation Services and the city Department of Planning and Permitting as part of a condition imposed by the LUC.
Dudley also believes that perhaps some officials will take a different view of the traffic report data and conclusions based on the issues he is raising, especially since the LUC has a new composition since Gov. David Ige took office in December.
“We hopefully will have a real chance to confront (Horton officials) on their numbers,” Dudley said in an interview.
Dudley’s motion contends that the report uses a base-line count of 22,048 existing homes in the Ewa-Kapolei region in 2007 and that this is 15 percent under the 25,800 homes listed in the Oahu Regional Transportation Plan from the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization.In terms of a projected number of homes in 2035, Horton’s number is 39,669 and is 31 percent under the ORTP projection of 57,100, the motion said.
The alleged undercounting, Dudley’s motion claims, allows Horton to conclude that adding one lane in each direction on H-1 along a bottleneck around the intersection with H-2 will reduce congestion to an acceptable level.
The official was DOT Highways Division Chief Alvin Takeshita, who retired shortly before the state Ethics Commission announced in February a resolution of formal charges that Takeshita and eight other state employees illegally accepted free golf from companies doing business with the state.
Takeshita, according to the Ethics Commission, participated in 10 golf tournaments and an additional three rounds of golf at the expense of concrete and rock producer Ameron Hawaii, engineering firm SSFM International, planning and engineering firm R.M. Towill Corp. and infrastructure consulting firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. Dudley said some of these companies could derive business from Horton. Takeshita settled the charges against him by paying an administrative fine of $5,750.
Horton officials said they have no forecast on when they expect to break ground on Ho‘opili. Work is progressing on infrastructure studies that are necessary before the developer can apply for a city subdivision permit.
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