Navy gets to use land for free


Lee Cataluna has a scathing column in the Advertiser about the Navy's request for 270 acres of ag and beach land, free in perpetuity, to expand the Pacific Missile Range on the west side of Kaua'i, along with control over an additional 5,371 acres of adjacent former sugar land.

She says, "Yes, Navy control over that land could mean protection from future development. It sure did that for Kaho'olawe. In November of last year, more than 200 Kaua'i people attended a public hearing on this matter. Those in attendance were overwhelmingly against the proposal... In the current frenzy of nationalized hegemony euphemistically called patriotism, any suggestion that maybe the military should keep their hands off Hawaiian land will be drowned out by choruses of Toby Keith's charming anthem."

In the end, the Land Board voted in favor of granting almost what the Navy wanted — not forever. The lease is for 25 years. But still, for nothing.

Here's a related story in the Star-Bulletin.


Posted: Tue - May 25, 2004 at 08:20 AM    
   
 
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