06-25-2008, 12:16 PM
Mahalo Kale,
Look forward to seeing you there.
Yeah, Planning Director is sure to start messing with PCDP (long-anticipated).
Sanitation: it is in fact not necessary to have cess pools, septic tanks, or centralized sewer treatment facilities.
What our family did is a dry toilet and a greywater absorption bed -- all DOH approved (our greywater was, though, the first DOH approved and building-permitted residential greywater system in the entire state -- approved in 2005 after initial application in 2002. We fought and fought and fought for 3 years, and got it. Now, we have a continuous flow of people coming to see ours so as to imitate it and then simply go in with the same plan and it is easily approved.
Grading and Grubbing: Your put down regarding the County of Hawaii Cultural Resource Commission ("a political appointment by the mayor and made up of people primarily concerned about preserving old buildings with alphabets after their names") was not very informative nor convincing; and the idea of "approval by Hawaiians" is quite unexplained, leaving too much for the imagination and too little for serious consideration.
In a representative democracy based upon equality, assigning different parts of the community different rights and responsibilities is a delicate matter.
Native gathering rights is about gathering for cultural practitioners -- a continuation of cultural practices that directly benefits kanaka maoli and indirectly benefits us all. This is not difficult to understand and is not an affront to principles of equality.
It is much harder for me to draw that same parallel with the same conclusions for 'Hawaiians' broad ranging regulation of all grubbing and grading. Now, any kind of disturbance at sites of special cultural significance is another matter and (to my understanding) not what is being discussed here -- but whether or not the County of Hawaii Cultural Resource Commission is up to that task remains, for me, an open question. For example, if that Commission is not functioning well, should the changes be made there?
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park
Look forward to seeing you there.
Yeah, Planning Director is sure to start messing with PCDP (long-anticipated).
Sanitation: it is in fact not necessary to have cess pools, septic tanks, or centralized sewer treatment facilities.
What our family did is a dry toilet and a greywater absorption bed -- all DOH approved (our greywater was, though, the first DOH approved and building-permitted residential greywater system in the entire state -- approved in 2005 after initial application in 2002. We fought and fought and fought for 3 years, and got it. Now, we have a continuous flow of people coming to see ours so as to imitate it and then simply go in with the same plan and it is easily approved.
Grading and Grubbing: Your put down regarding the County of Hawaii Cultural Resource Commission ("a political appointment by the mayor and made up of people primarily concerned about preserving old buildings with alphabets after their names") was not very informative nor convincing; and the idea of "approval by Hawaiians" is quite unexplained, leaving too much for the imagination and too little for serious consideration.
In a representative democracy based upon equality, assigning different parts of the community different rights and responsibilities is a delicate matter.
Native gathering rights is about gathering for cultural practitioners -- a continuation of cultural practices that directly benefits kanaka maoli and indirectly benefits us all. This is not difficult to understand and is not an affront to principles of equality.
It is much harder for me to draw that same parallel with the same conclusions for 'Hawaiians' broad ranging regulation of all grubbing and grading. Now, any kind of disturbance at sites of special cultural significance is another matter and (to my understanding) not what is being discussed here -- but whether or not the County of Hawaii Cultural Resource Commission is up to that task remains, for me, an open question. For example, if that Commission is not functioning well, should the changes be made there?
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park