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Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Access plan splits Leilani
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A plan to erect a permanent
gate controlling access
to Leilani Estates threatens to
divide subdivision residents
both figuratively and literally.
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Now that the mandatory
evacuation order for Leilani
Estates has been lifted, the
question of how to control
access to the lava-ravaged subdivision
has been an open one.
For the time being, residents
are required to present placards
at a checkpoint
at the intersection
of Highway
130 and Leilani
Avenue in order
to enter, a precaution
that keeps
visitors hoping
to see the cooled lava at bay.
“Now that the (Hawaii
Volcanoes National Park)
has reopened, the question
(visitors) keep asking is,
‘How do we get to fissure
8?’” said Jay Turkovsky,
Leilani Estates Community
Association president.
To better control access to
the subdivision, Turkovsky said
the community association is
seeking to enter a memorandum
of understanding with
Hawaii County to be granted
control of Leilani Avenue.
This would allow the association
to set up a gate along
the road that only residents
would be allowed to open.
While Turkovsky said the
county appears amicable to
such an arrangement — the
association has been maintaining
the road since the lower
Puna eruption began, and it
Subdivision residents mull how to
control entry into lava-ravaged area
STEPHANIE SALMONS / Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Sara Tokura-Ellsworth pets Pogo on Friday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Agricultural Farm Laboratory
in Panaewa.
Horsing around
It was warm, breezy and busy
last week at the University of
Hawaii at Hilo Agricultural
Farm Laboratory in Panaewa. At
the end of the lane
that makes its way
across the property,
students — and
animals — bustled
around the horse barn.
The students are
part of the first horse
production class
offered by the university’s
College of Agriculture,
Forestry and Natural Resource
Management in many years. They
worked diligently Friday to brush,
groom, walk and feed a number
of the large animals.
Some students in
the class, however,
began working with
the animals in the
summer, as the farm
also became a refuge
for horses displaced
because of eruption activity that
began May 3 in lower Puna.
Although there were a total of
23 horses relocated to the farm
in recent months, just eight
Waikoloa
development
to face land
use board
Developers blame fraud
on decade-long delay
A 731-acre project that’s languished
for a decade is at risk of being reverted
to an agricultural land reclassification.
Developers of what’s planned to be a 398-lot
residential subdivision
are promising
to get moving on
the project under
new management.
They tell a sordid
tale of a former
director funneling
tens of millions in
investors’ money
into movies and casinos
and ultimately to a bank in the Republic
of Armenia. Investors are awaiting extradition
of the alleged embezzler from Russia to face
civil and criminal complaints, they say.
The state Land Use Commission has
scheduled an Oct. 24 hearing for Waikoloa
Highlands Inc. to show cause why it should
be able to keep the rural district classification
granted to it in 2008 or lose that classification.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
at the Courtyard King Kamehameha Kona
Beach Hotel, according to an LUC notice.
Waikoloa Highlands took over the property
from Waikoloa Mauka LLC in 2014.
Build-out of the project was supposed to
be completed by June 10 of this year.
“We’re just asking for the chance to proceed
with the development,” Steven Lim, attorney
for Waikoloa Highlands, said Monday.
Lim said his client is asking that the project,
which was zoned by the county into one-acre
lots in 1990, get all its required county permits
UH-Hilo equine
class pairs students
with animals
displaced by lava
By STEPHANIE SALMONS
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
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By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
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