Coco Palms developers did their part; county did not
Coco Palms developers did their part; county did not
Mr. Hooser’s opinion piece regarding Coco Palms (TGI Forum, March 27) is about two years too late.
This is when leadership and a willingness to support landowner rights (which Mr. Hooser should know a lot about as a former real estate agent) was needed to remove the squatters from Coco Palms.
This is when vision was needed to see how to work with GreeneWaters to support the redevelopment that would create job opportunities, workforce housing, and revenue for the county.
I was at the 2013 council meeting when Mr. Hooser voted “no” to extending the Iniki Ordinance, and the reason he did so was because the developers would not commit to a $250,000 performance bond that he proposed. Is this common in the real estate business for you to purchase your permit?
Let’s not forget that the developers put up $2.5 million to complete demolition and contracted a Kauai company. Let’s not forget that the developers dedicated Haleilio Road to the county for future road improvements. Let’s not forget that the county received over $300,000 from the developers to meet conditions put forth by the Planning Department.
So here you go, enjoy another peanut from those in the gallery.
Dirk Soma, Kapaa
good letter Dirk.. you forgot to mention the actions continually going on at planning commission meetings where Mr. Greene and Waters were constantly being drilled as the commission dangles the permits on a string. the only mistake made is that they should have agreed to commissioner Mahoney who is the business agent for the carpenters union, that they would use the union to rebuild the project. all the waste of time would have been over. you are right the county dropped the ball.
Typical Hooser self-serving propaganda. No wonder he was an elected failure.