City Rail "Public Meeting" To Legalize Fraudulent Important Ag Lands Evaluations
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City Stealth "Public Meeting" To Legalize Fraudulent Important Ag Lands Evaluations
January 10 at Kapolei Middle School 6 PM - 8:30 PM
The City had a Parsons Brinkerhoff rail contract employee misuse the
Farmland Protection Policy Act (FPPA) subtitle I of Title XV, Section
1539-1549. Specifically the Farmland Conversion Impact Rating Form
which the rail contract employee used to degrade the importance of the
Hoopili farmland simply based upon her own opinion using a vague
rating system so that rail could run a right of way through there.
The City is now trying to completely "legalize" this entire fraud with their
HFF contractor declaring the all of the Hoopili farmland is substandard,
etc. despite the City Council resolution passed unanimously:
http://www4.honolulu.gov/docus
There is now coming up a nearly stealth under the radar meeting (that their
website keeps vague) where the City will use to claim the public has approved
the fraudulent conversion of farmlands. This meeting is January 10 in
Kapolei and the following week in Haleiwa.
http://honouliuli.blogspot.com
http://kanehili.blogspot.com/2
The issue is that the “Farmland Conversion Impact Rating” (NRCS-CPA-106)
done by rail contractor Parsons Brinkerhoff in 2008 appears to be a
fraudulent rating based upon all of the Hawaii State agricultural lands
documentation now and available at that time.
It appears to be a “management decision” by the rail contractor to have
FTA approve rail construction over very valuable farmland using the
Section 4(f) NRCS rating form to declare the West Oahu Farrington
Highway (WOFH) farmland as agriculturally substandard.
http://honouliuli.blogspot.com
West Oahu residents and especially a large attendance by many local area
farmers from Waianae were all incensed at the extreme dishonesty of how
the City Department of Planning and Permitting was conducting a faked dog
and pony show that pretended that Oahu residents actually had a choice in
selecting Important Agricultural Lands.
Of particularly great concern were the Hoopili farm lands that have been
traditionally used for farming for 1000 years in the Honouliuli ahupua'a in
Ewa. The region has been well known as the agricultural breadbasket of
Oahu supporting the largest pre-contact native Hawaiian population on
the island.
The fact that the lands are of the highest prime agriculture quality and
meeting ALL of the definitions of Important Agricultural Land- but could
not be even considered- quickly caused the fraudulent City meeting to
end its presentation as the audience took over and expressed their
outrage in a series of passionate farmland preservation statements.
******Subject: Re: Pueo @ Hoopili ? Proof "Darkie" Is About
Re: Pueo @ Hoopili ? Proof "Darkie" Is About
From: Tom Berg
To: Michael Lee
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2016 5:01 PM
Subject: Pueo @ Hoopili ? Proof "Darkie" Is About
Part of the Rail Crime paperwork to make it all appear legitimate
Farmland Protection Policy Act (FPPA) subtitle I of Title XV, Section
1539-1549. Specifically the Farmland Conversion Impact Rating Form
which the rail contract employee used to degrade the importance of the
rating system so that rail could run a right of way through there.
The public which has slowly learned what a huge large scale fraud and
largely unaudited bungle the entire rail scam has been still have little
idea of how many Federal documents were fraudulently processed
to approve the bogus Final EIS to allow the FTA "Letter of No Prejudice"
and approval of the FFGA (Full Funding Grant Agreement) which the
City has since broken and voided by not keeping the signed agreement.
There are some really major federal law issues here, including massive
station TOD's that are all major Section 4(f) issues all being avoided by
the City TOD group.
There are some really major federal law issues here, including massive
station TOD's that are all major Section 4(f) issues all being avoided by
the City TOD group.
http://www4.honolulu.gov/docus
which gave the City plenty of time to save Important Ag lands while still
allowing other areas for home development.
http://honouliuli.blogspot.com
http://kanehili.blogspot.com/2
The issue is that the “Farmland Conversion Impact Rating” (NRCS-CPA-106)
done by rail contractor Parsons Brinkerhoff in 2008 appears to be a
fraudulent rating based upon all of the Hawaii State agricultural lands
documentation now and available at that time.
It appears to be a “management decision” by the rail contractor to have
FTA approve rail construction over very valuable farmland using the
Section 4(f) NRCS rating form to declare the West Oahu Farrington
Highway (WOFH) farmland as agriculturally substandard.
http://honouliuli.blogspot.com
West Oahu residents and especially a large attendance by many local area
farmers from Waianae were all incensed at the extreme dishonesty of how
the City Department of Planning and Permitting was conducting a faked dog
and pony show that pretended that Oahu residents actually had a choice in
selecting Important Agricultural Lands.
Of particularly great concern were the Hoopili farm lands that have been
traditionally used for farming for 1000 years in the Honouliuli ahupua'a in
Ewa. The region has been well known as the agricultural breadbasket of
Oahu supporting the largest pre-contact native Hawaiian population on
the island.
The fact that the lands are of the highest prime agriculture quality and
meeting ALL of the definitions of Important Agricultural Land- but could
not be even considered- quickly caused the fraudulent City meeting to
end its presentation as the audience took over and expressed their
outrage in a series of passionate farmland preservation statements.
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PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS. IT IS IMPORTANT INFO YOU NEED TO KNOW!
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Aloha,
Please don’t think that the Ho’opili battle is lost. We still have two or three strong possibilities of winning. Protesting the hearings below is a critical step.
Why is this so important to you personally? Over the last decade, almost every year, the temperature world-wide has increased. People don’t realize that there is also far less rain in many places around the world, and there is less water seeping down into aquifers. Projections are that many places will run completely out of water. Millions will die of thirst. High temperatures are already having a devastating effect on crops around the world. Places are drying up just as the Central Valley of California (America’s breadbasket) is beginning to do. Many scientists are saying that we will have mass starvation in the world in a few decades. The time is coming when there won’t be any food for us to import. Any food at all. We will need to produce our own. We currently import 90% of our food. The governor is pushing his plan to double food production back another ten years, from 2020 till 2030. He’s failed so far. He will fail again. We are headed in the wrong direction. The Ho’opili farmland right now produces 32% of the crops grown on O’ahu for the local market. Koa Ridge produces 13%. Together they produce 45%, almost half of what the island produces for local markets. We can’t afford to sacrifice these lands; we will need them for our survival in the future.
We also all need to clearly understand that Ho’opili is the last agricultural land in full sun on the island. Most of the crops that grow there will not grow in the higher elevations which frequently have cloud cover and rain. Anyone who tells you the opposite is flat-out lying. When that farmland is gone, we will never again be able to produce those crops for our million people.
The notice below just came out. It announces two “community meetings” where smooth talking people from our corrupt city government will gush about saving farmland for the future while using the meetings as a claim of your approval for giving up Ho’opili and Koa Ridge.
A little background: The state Constitution of 1978 required the preservation of Important Agricultural Lands. Each island was supposed to designate its Important Agricultural Lands decades ago, so that those Important Agricultural Lands would be kept in ag in perpetuity. All islands stalled and stalled. About five years ago on O’ahu, pressure eventually began to mount to get the job done, but just at the same time the Ho’opili and Koa Ridge projects came on the scene. This caused problems for city council which had been bought by the developer community. They needed to somehow keep them off of the list. The Council decided to push for getting the lands designated, while excluding Ho’opili and Koa Ridge from consideration. Tom Berg was on the Council at the time, however, and, with Ann Kobayashi’s help, he and I got the Council to insert wording into their Resolution that instructed the Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP) to include both Ho’opili and Koa Ridge in their study, even though they were within the Urban Growth Boundary. This was Resolution 12-023 found at http://www4.honolulu.gov/
Today we have lands on this island that can produce the crops for all of our basic needs. If we have any concern for our children and grandchildren, we need to stand up and protect these lands for them. Let us not surrender our future to the greed of developers. Too much is at stake.
We need to speak up. We need you to stand with protest signs as people enter. To stand with them inside as the meeting goes on. And to go up to the mike and give them your mana’o.
Please pass this info on.
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DRHorton is awful. They were sued by the Puyallup Tribe (I think, maybe the city of Fife) for building in areas that they didn't own and were protected- along the Puyallup river or some wetlands or something like that. They absolutely don't care about land or animals. If you know Mike you might want to have him contact the Tribe and find out what happened. It was several years ago so I don't remember - only that they ended up in trouble. It might give some fuel.
Re: Pueo @ Hoopili ? Proof "Darkie" Is About
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Dec 27 (2 days ago)
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Tuesday December 27, 2016
Aloha Friends here is proof of the pueos I have witness for my self on Hoopili land in Honouliuli Gulch. This is clear evidence why we need a Declaration Order to be sent to L.U.C due to the incomplete nature of the Hoopili EIS not finding the endangered Hawaiian pueo on its land.
My OHA Beneficiary request to save our Ohana Pueo must be turned into a legal instrument to do a SEIS to mitigate to save our endangered Hawaiian pueo.
For several years I have done a awa ceremony for our family aumakua as my eighth great grandfather Kuaali'i was known as Ali'i Pueo.
I'm a recognized Native Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner by D.R. Hortan's attorneys from the L.U.C. hearings on Thursday March 1, 2012 in my testimony before the L.U.C. that my Hawaiian family where buried in the Waipouli cave system below the Hoopili land .
Kumu Mike Lee
From: Tom Berg
To: Michael Lee
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2016 5:01 PM
Subject: Pueo @ Hoopili ? Proof "Darkie" Is About
Aloha Mike-
Share the video if worthy-
The owl you see captured on this youtube video is the second owl I saw of two owls that I observed within the Ho'opili property on Christmas Eve -
The link to the NEW video is here-
*******And- in the video you will see new ribbons added - the first owl was the dark owl- "Darkie" ---
And Darkie lives where DR Horton is to CLEARCUT it all- you see the spot where the pueo "lived" where the new ribbons are- ----this must be why the pueo went back down to the stream where I saw it on the 24th fly out of Dodge as fast as one can- it bolted never to return while I was there.....this owl that bolted/ not caught on camera was much darker in color than the one you see in this video- I suspect it was the pueo.
I know where the pueo flew out from that I could not get ON camera the other day- just need to find the right window to gain access....and not get caught. Isn't this an unusual barn owl in the video- ?
TB
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The Mountain and the Telescope
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11:23 AM (12 hours ago)
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To: Interested Parties
From: Lanny Sinkin
First of all, I hope that 2017 brings lots of light and love into this planet that sorely needs it. May each of you be blessed by that energetic shower!
Contested Case update:
The contested case regarding the University of Hawai’i application for a permit to build the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea continues. We have 14 days of hearings scheduled in January. (That’s 9:00 to 4:00 every day, for those not familiar with the process.) At least 35 witnesses still to be cross-examined.
The Temple of Lono took an interlocutory appeal (an appeal before the final decision is made) to the Hawai’i Supreme Court under a new law that permits such direct appeals to the Supreme Court from an administrative proceeding. We asked the Court to provide the Temple some relief from the Hearing Officer’s refusal to allow the Temple to litigate the libelous attack on the Temple by the University and the Hearing Officer’s refusal to take up motions filed by the Temple. (There are 14 or 15 motions filed by the Temple that the Hearing Officer has either refused to take up or to decide, which essentially reduces the Temple to a second-class party.)
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal on the basis that the Court “lacked appellate jurisdiction.” The Court offered no explanation for that ruling.
The burden on the Protectors who have volunteered for this process is extraordinary. Losing time from work, financial stress, disrupting family time, while facing well-funded proponents of the telescope is taking a toll.
On a personal note, a dear friend aware of the financial stress placed on me by this proceeding just set up a GoFundMe account directing gifts to me. The funds raised will go to cover my expenses. Should you feel so moved, your support would be most welcome.
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Beijing's 1st maglev Line S1 to begin operating in 2017 (photo)s" Global Times 12/26
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Dec 27 (3 days ago)
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YOU IN THE MEDIA SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES KNOWING WE COULD HAVE MAGLEV RAIL UP AND running BY NOW FOR HALF THE PRICE!!!!!! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES- GET A NEW JOB/GET OUT OF THE NEWS BUSINESS- YOU ALL SUCK- - YOU ARE KILLING US WITH YOUR SHITTY REPORTING- RATHER, LACK OF REPORTING!!!!!!! Maglev rail- superior on all fronts- beats all other forms of rail in every study undertaken!!!!!! You assholes - YES YOU in media and in elective office for pushing the steel wheeled beast on us- for shame- ROT IN HELL ALL OF YOU!!!!!!
MAGLEV- COSTS $65 MILLION A MILE TO CONSTRUCT- COMPARE THAT TO THE STEEL WHEELED BEAST AT OVER $400 MILLION A MILE- YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!
Subject: [UM] [CN] "Beijing's 1st maglev Line S1 to begin operating in 2017 (photo)s" Global Times 12/26
Photos taken on Dec. 25, 2016 shows Beijing's first medium-low speed maglev Line S1 in Beijing, capital of China. The Line S1, which connects the city's western district of Mentougou to the Pingguoyuan subway station in Shijingshan district, is expected to begin operating in 2017. With a maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour, the train will stop at eight stations and serve about 1,302 passengers at a time. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
Beijing's 1st maglev Line S1 to begin operating in 2017
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