CTS Earthmoving won’t start utility conduit trenching across Palani Road during the second week in May. The county rejected Nan/CTS’s traffic control plans for this work. So, they have to revise their plans. However, a few days later the county indicated they may reconsider their decision. I asked the project manager to keep me apprised if the county does indeed change their mind. He also promised to e-mail me a copy of these plans.
The State LUC e-mailed me a copy of the final land classification reversion decision & order for The Villages at Aina Le’a development. This boondoggle project is quickly turning into another Hokuli’a fiasco. So, I believe, the county, state, and developer will be embroiled in litigation for the foreseeable future.
The project manager overseeing the Makalei Fire Station project e-mailed me this update:
“DPW conducted the pre-construction meeting yesterday with the General and sub-contractors. Basically discussing and clarifying requirements of the contract. NTP is being issued today April 28, 2011 and the project is expected to be completed in August 2012. Surveying was already being done yesterday and with the NTP being issued today, the contractor was planning to mobilize equipment to the site today to begin the site work.”
Forest City released an update on their proposed Kamakana Villages development.
Lastly, the Kona Blog survey is slated to end on May 5th, 2011. I’ve received a lot of good comments and suggestions. However, I’d like to respond to two comments which criticized this blog:
“administrator needs to articulate their opinion with more facts, background and logic before stating an opinion or the opinion becomes just shallow reactionary opinion.”
“The opinion pieces of your blog have to be more clearly and concisely written so as to weave the subject manner with your opinion of them in a stronger way. Your opinion and writings are not strong enough while at the same time you don’t back your arguments with any and enough facts, background or clear logic.”
I spend hours at end researching and searching for corroborating information to support my arguments. This recent letter to the editor is a case in point. So, I don’t know what else I could do to satisfy these perfectionists.
April 29th, 2011 at 9:37 AM
I don’t know about those 2 commenters, but just the fact that you are bringing something to light that I wasn’t aware of, of clarifying projects and other situations that I hadn’t thought hard enough about, justifies me reading your blog. As I stated earlier, the things you are concerned with I generally think about, and I agree with most (but not all) of your opinions on the subject at hand. Keep up the good work.
April 29th, 2011 at 9:06 PM
Good Blog. Nobody else does these subjects …just you.