The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 46

A-4 Tuesday June 24 1975 HONOLULU ADVERTISER Poor job by HHA, says Mayor Fasi NEWS Big Island launches agriculture park JL. PAHOA lie oiaic a in a i ou ituiiuiai udi i i i urbanized. He said if you put up six housing units per acre, that alone would amount to 66,000 units. "Too often you find politicians or political lawyers tied up with developers," he said. "They get the land overnight, and we have to go in and buy it and pay then anywhere up to eight times the value of raw land." FASI WAS UPSET because the Legislature struck down a 1974 law which would have permitted the City to purchase, for housing purposes, agricultural land adjacent to urban areas.

Gov. George Ariyoshi contended that repeal was needed because the Fasi Administration planned to build a large development on land near Kunia now in agricultural zoning. was launcnea nere yesterday in formal ceremonies attended by State and County officials. State Agricultural Director John Farias Jr. said, "TVlie 1C thm fircf nf iltl I million worth of units?" said Fasi.

"It's a record in the sale of housing units in Hawaii." The Block apartment are not inexpensive. A total of 227 of the 908 units are set aside for low-income families. Fasi said the apartments for sale run from $47,000 to $97,000. He said in 1969 the Downtown Improvement Association and the City Council wanted to build a parking building on the Block site. He said he told them: "No way.

We need people downtown." FASI SAID THE CITY had good plans set up to provide housing, had the Legislature not stepped in to impede them: "We had the financing set to go Zenith $350 million. "We had Federal programs ready to move in. We had our own bonding authority. And we had a package where we could put people in housing who earn $10,000 a year "It was a good, viable plan, but they killed it. Now the Democrats for years have said, 'We're going to break the land Baloney! What's happened? "Look how many Democrats who have been in power have joined up with the landowners; how many deals they've made with them; how many sit on the boards of directors of the landowning companies and banks and investments trusts and what have you "The government was supposed to step in in 1971 to make an assault against high-priced ingredients And what happened? Nothing.

"I'm concerned that many families in the $20,000 income bracket are becoming dispossessed." "Now they cannot tell me when they took those powers to condemn agricultural land away from the City and County that no more ag land is going to be pulled out," he said. "That's shibai (political theatrics), and you know it "If the State, said, 'We're going in and condemn land or we're going to buy raw land and we're going to put it out and develop it for that would undercut all these speculators. But what they've done is sustain all these people. And I say this is wrong." FASI QUESTIONED whether the HHA has really, built any housing. "They did not build any units," he said.

"All they did is act as a bank a small business-loan outfit. You mean to say that all the banks in Honolulu that put up some money for housing can say, 'We built 10,000 units'? "In other words, they themselves have not done what we wanted to do on the City level that is, to go out and get raw land; condemn it and put it out for bids; and have private enterprise build the units and control the prices the way we did at Block (the Kukui Development project off Fort Street Mall). "They haven't done that, with a few exceptions. For the most part, they've taken the $100 million, plus another $20 million, and acted as bankers, and they say: 'Look at what we've FASI IS PLEASED with the Block project. He said the City worked hard on the plan.

The developer can earn only six per cent. It appears to be a success. "Do you know that when Hansen (Hal Hansen, the builder) opened a sales office, in one month he sold $26 weather, temperatures 1 1 Naha 79 88 Taipei 77 93 Seoul 66 M-l lIMIIWIIIWWMWIMM- Honolulu and Windward Oahu forecast: Sunny. Few sprinkles at night. Trade winds 15 to 25 High in the mid 80s.

Low in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 7:17. mov jiiuuuii wi a aigumiaui agricultural bill" and declared the park is representative of the State's "commitment to agricultural zoning and development to serve you." County Managing Director John P. Keppeler said the development of the 19-lot, 290-acre farming subdivision reflected the nature of the Pahoa residents, whose "industry is known throughout our land." After the ground blessing, the 18 lessees of the 10- to 31-acre parcels gave guided tours of the lots where guava, asparagus, bird of paradise, green and red ti plants, maile, orchids, anthuriums and ginger have been planted. Some of the farmers plan to establish residence at the rocky pahoehoe site that the State opened up by establishing a basic water line.

A State Department of Land and Natural Resources spokesman said a second increment will be opened in "six months, adding eight more lots and 119 acres to the development that has a potential of involving 6,000 acres of State-owned land. Lessee spokesman James Kuwana said the development will produce "future income on land that wouldn't support one jackass per acre before." Big Isle gun charge filed WAIMEA, Hawaii A 32-year-old Waimea man was arrested and charged with a felony offense after allegedly firing a rifle over the heads of his girl friend's children. Charged with a felony count of reckless endangering was Milton H. Phillips, 32, who posted a $1,025 bail. Officers said he had a quarrel with the 25-year-old mother of the children and fired the shots from the rifle, which police confiscated.

Taxation hearings slated HILO The board of review for the Third Taxation Division of the Big Island will hold gearings tomorrow and Thursday on complaints against assessed values of property. The West Hawaii hearing is planned for 7:30 p.m. at the University Extension Service Office in Kainaliu, North Kona, and the West Hawaii hearing will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the conference room of the State Office Building in Hilo. Temperatures-rainfall Honolulu Airport weather Station) Highest temperatur 0 'Record high (1968) Average high for month Lowest temperature Recordlow(l73) Average low for month 34 hour rainfall ending I p.m.

Rainfall so tar this month Averegerainfalifortnisperiod Rainfall so tar this year Average rainfall for this period Relative humidity at 3 p.m. Relative humidity at I p.m. STATE ROUNDUP (Airport Readings) Yesterday's 12.41 I 1 Je-hour 1V 1 rainto i1 A Ymf I W'v f7m Low 73 72 7) 74 64 63 69 High Bo a ao (4 12 Honolulu Barbers Point Kanaon Lihue Molokal Kahulul Hilo New Kauai building backed LIHUE The Kauai Council has thrown its -support behind plans to develop a new County building in Lihue. During a committee meeting last week it became apparent that there is general consensus within the Council that a new County building is needed because of insufficient space in the present structure. Some County offices, have had to rent space elsewhere in Lihue.

County Akira Fujita said his office has been working on a proposal for a new County building. He said he hopes a proposed bond floatation this year will provide funds for development of a master plan and a conceptual design of such a structure. MAINLAND Tomorrow' Yesterday's Forecast Low High Albany 7 partly cloudy 62 19 Albuauerqut partly cloudy 56 91 Amarillo partly cloudy 59 Asheviiie haze 56 60 Atlantic City fair 68 7S Austin partly cloudy 72 91 Baltimore partly cloudy 64 91 Billings showers 49 82 Birmingham partly cloudy 67 16 Bismarck fair 53 8) Boise partly cloudy 64 (5 Brownsville thunderstorms 74 92 Buffalo lair 69 13 Burlington, partly cloudy 71 93 Casper partly cloudy 44 BO Charleston. S.C... partly cloudy 6t (4 Charleston, W.

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Hee emphasized the need for fast action on the proposal, since leases for office space outside the existing County building are short-term ones and it is possible they will not be renewed. "We cannot disadvantage our taxpayers (and) let them do business on the street," Hee said. 5 Vi-Lt- 0 0 P) I- KrMl" KN 1 it fel 1 1 1 111 1 ry- -Br jB SIR' itV'X 3-YCAR 5-YEAir Mi T' 'Air- WIM III if i-. 'I 1 1 I I For resident of Hawaii only of New York fair 65 Big Isle eyes 55 m.p.h. HILO The Big Island soon may raise its basic speed limit from 50 to 55 miles per hour to conform 7 with the national maximum set for all public highways.

The recommendation was sent to the County Council yesterday by Mayor Herbert T. Matayoshi and chief engineer Edward Harada, who noted the County High-v way Safety Council has recommended reverting to the standard. The speed limit was dropped in early 1974 by former mayor Shunichi Kimura under an emergency he de-- clared during the fuel crisis and later was adopted by the Council. "This change will enable the posting of speed limits consistent with the design speed of the highways and also allow for a more realistic enforcement of the speed limit," Harada said. At the present time, the only 55 m.p.h.

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