Please Repair Olohena Road
Please Repair Olohena Road
I was heartened to see the massive funding going to improve Poipu roads. Please don’t forget the rest of the island, though.
With Kamalu Road out of service for at least a year, people in Kapa‘a rely more on upper Olohena Road than ever and it is in terrible, axel-splitting disrepair. Lower Olohena has been a hot mess for years and upper Olohena is worse than ever. Kapa‘a residents rely on this road, often so we don’t have to add to and suffer the traffic on the highway through town.
Can someone bump repairing all of Olohena Road up to the top of the list, please?
Jason Blake, Wailua
Mr. Parker the Pawn
I must commend you on your performance at last Tuesday’s Planning Commission Meeting. Your nerves were a bit obvious but who could blame you after having to get up after all that opposing testimony and be the voice for the investors who didn’t feel like chiming in via Zoom.
If I may just offer you a few suggestions?
First, I would avoid referring to the mostly native population of houseless on the lot as “vagrants”. What? You neva like the spray paint? Shame, I thought it was a nice touch to the dilapidation of it all.
I would also try to contain your excitement for finally securing those eviction notices that you will likely task more native persons with the duty of serving. I am so looking forward to a potential community meeting with the big bosses from Utah. Surely having them fly out and meet with the community members will change all our minds and we will completely forget about our very real and valid concerns.
Choosing to place a cultural center “in the back of the hotel” seems like the perfect location for it. Lastly, I assure you that we community members feel terribly about the money that the investors you represent have spent on this project thus far. We really want to make sure their investment is recouped tenfold so please, keep mentioning the money they’ve invested; it absolutely tugs at our heart strings.
Anna Meyers, Princeville
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Exactly Jason!! This County road is a dangerous unimproved sorry excuse for a major highway..the county repair guys stand around leaning on shovels watching one or 2 fill the holes that last a couple weeks ..no compactor, repairs to the tiny outdated bridges that take months and years.. our tax $$$ ????
Somehow Anna Meyers, of the ultra-exclusive Princeville area, comes off as a typical limousine liberal with her snide comments regarding the Planning Commission. Maybe if her house was spray painted with graffitti she would have a change of heart about the ‘artists’ who engage in this disgusting behavior. And then there’s her cringeworthy use of pidgin (‘What, you neva like spray paint?) that pegs her as the privileged White savior come to rescue the island from its wayward ways. And where might you hail from, Anna? I’m guessing either Bethlehem or California, but do enlighten us on your place of origin!
Dear Hutch-
Please go easy on Anna Meyers. She was not making snide comments about the Planning Commission. She was making snide comments about Mr. Parker and the Coco Palms “investors”. As far as the spray paint on the dilapidated building on the CP site, why are you so concerned? Better a bit of spray paint than lighting a match to the place…
Have you a dog in the fight? Why do you feel the need to defend the “investors” ?
Do you think the Coco Palms investors are the Privileged White Saviors come to rescue the island from its wayward ways?
It is time to condemn the place and build a community-run cultural center.
Fair enough, kauaiboy. I didn’t realize Anna was referring to the owners of the ruins of the Coco Palms. This thing has been allowed to stay standing for an unconscionable thirty years come a week from Sunday. I agree that it’s long past due for our do-nothing County Council to condemn the thing and build a community center, especially since they had no problem condemning the property of a rightful landowner several months ago for ‘affordable housing’, which everyone knows will go for full market value. As for road paving and horrendous traffic? Well, the Council members have fundraisers to attend, don’t they. Meanwhile dimbulb voters will vote most of them back in in November.
I had a phone conversation with Roads Division late last year over a tire blowout my car received on a drive up Olohena Road. The very nice woman who answered the phone told me Olohena was scheduled for repaving this year. Still a few months left in the year, there’s hope.
Anna should invite those mostly native displaced people to camp on her richie rich Princeville property.