Photos Of West Oahu Community Opposition At City's Kapolei Important Agricultural Lands Meeting
John Bond Kanehili Cultural Hui
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.
