I drove by the area you are speaking about and Dr Horton must be nuts to think we should get rid of all that great farmland. Too many homes and too much traffic already for the amount of infrastructure we have. Plus, at some point we’ll run out of water and nowhere to put all the trash.

I’m not a huge proponent of development, but in this case it doesn’t seem to be the “farmers” the SLUC is trying to save, but some overinflated sense of “charming history” on Oahu. When “affordable housing” hovers around the $300-400k range for a single family “starter” home, it begs the question… is that affordable? Really? Hawaii’s greatest resource is her people – and the various cultures we bring to our lifestyle here. If we require people to live in $300k “affordable” homes that aren’t really affordable but represent the cheapest available, and don’t pay them a corresponding wage, we have bigger problems than one development can conquer.

Seems like business as usual in the Aloha State. I’m sure we’ll be talking about it for another 40 years, like the “Mamalahoa bypass” on the Big Island, currently nearly 50 years of big talk, no action.