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Hawaii Monitor: Shifting the Sands to Evade Waikiki’s Zoning Limits
Jun 11, 2014Civil Beat
- The hotel company Kyo-ya is using a nonexistent shoreline to get around restrictions on building heights.
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Words and Actions, Purple Spot Edition
Feb 16, 2012Civil Beat
- Honolulu City Council's campaign pledges then and now
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Mauna Kea–Sacred Summit or Cash Cow? Controversy over the Thirty Meter Telescope
Sep 14, 2011Honolulu Weekly
- Are the contributions of astronomy worth the actual costs?
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TMT: controversy combusts
Jul 20, 2011Ka Leo The Voice
- Native Hawaiian practitioners and conservationists are making a case against the Thirty Meter Telescope, proposed to be built on Hawaiian public conservation lands atop Mauna Kea.
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Grassroots hui coordinates defense of the Mauna Kea conservation district
Jul 04, 2011The Hawaii Independent
- Grassroots hui coordinates defense of the Mauna Kea conservation district
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Development blocks traditional access
Jun 13, 2011StarAdvertiser
- As land developments increase in Hawaii's once rural areas, some residents are becoming increasingly worried about the loss of access to recreational, hunting and fishing areas.
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Papaikou Access Statement of Facts
Jun 13, 2011
- Papaikou Access Statement of Facts
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Line in the Sand Rally
May 04, 2011Honolulu Weekly
- A 26-story condo/hotel proposed by Kyo-ya Hotels and Resorts for the lot between the old Moana Hotel and Kuhio Beach Park will be the target of a grassroots protest organized by KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance.
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Kyo-Ya: Hearing set for Surfrider’s new tower
Apr 08, 2011WaikikiPacific Business News
- Proponents say Kyo-ya’s projects must proceed to ensure Waikiki’s success
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Mauna Kea Telescope OK'd
Feb 26, 2011StarAdvertiser
- Land Board approves Conservation District Use Permit for 18-story, 8-acre Thirty Meter Telescope construction project on conservation lands on Mauna Kea.
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A done deal becomes a cause célèbre
Oct 20, 2010Honolulu Weekly
- Oahu’s enviro-watchdogs had launched a last-minute, do-or-die mobilization against a super-luxury hotel/condo tower that wants to break some important zoning laws and squeeze itself onto a narrow strip of sand smack in the middle of Waikiki, between the old Moana Hotel and bustling Kuhio Beach Park.
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DLNRn't
Sep 01, 2010Honolulu Weekly
- Conservation rule changes bring out hundreds of concerned residents.
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Overhaul of Conservation Rules Rushed
Aug 29, 2010Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Op-Ed
- Op-ed by Professor Jon Osorio and Vicky Holt-Takamine.
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Lualualei community fights to save farmland
Aug 18, 2010The Hawaii Independent
- Hawaii Independent reports - Lualualei community fights to save farmland
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Science, Culture Clash Over Sacred Mountain
Mar 18, 2001Los Angeles Times
- The emotionally charged debate over Western and Hawaiian uses of this rocky pinnacle is much more than a fight over a telescope or a mountaintop. To many Hawaiians, nothing less than the future of their homeland is at stake. And it is a perfect example of the often fumbling progress of Western science in a multicultural world.
