Farms, Not Dumps

Today, despite overwhelming community support for protecting local farm lands, developers are pushing Honolulu Councilmembers to approve a “purple spot,” a new industrial zone in the middle of green Lualualei Valley. This industrial zone would urbanize precious agricultural lands, paving the way for industrial parks, landfills, and other industrial land uses.

Remove the Purple Spot!

The plan must be approved by the Council for the City and County of Honolulu before it becomes law. We are asking Councilmembers to reject the “purple spot” and protect agricultural lands throughout the Wai‘anae Coast.

Become a spot remover! You can sign this petition to tell Councilmembers NO to more loss of precious rural agricultural lands! And NO to government that serves wealthy developers over the interests of local families and communities!

View, download and share the informational fact sheet here: http://tiny.cc/purplespotinfo

Share this petition with family and friends with this link: http://bit.ly/purplespotpetition

Purple spot indicates a proposed industrial zone in the
middle of rural, preservation, and agricultural lands (yellow and green).

Background

What is the “purple spot”?

- Last year Wai‘anae Coast residents updated their “Community Sustainability Plan,” which states that all future urban development “shall not be allowed to intrude into the Agricultural area” and instead should be focused along the highway.

- Despite this strong language, the plan today contains two possible maps, one that preserves current agricultural lands and one with a random industrial zone (a big purple spot) in the middle of green Lualualei valley.

 - The purple spot paves the way for these developers to put an industrial park on agricultural land deep in Lualualei Valley, next to farms and homes, and not along the highway where the residents said it should go. 

- This purple spot will allow the developers to use this fertile agricultural land for any kind of industrial use, including another landfill--and limit the ability of residents to contest whatever developers decide to do inside the purple spot.

Today, we have a chance to protect Hawai'i's agricultural lands get that purple spot removed from Lualualei Valley.

What's wrong with this picture?

- The top map shows the community's original sustainability plan, with NO purple dot. Greens and yellows indicate rural, agricultural and preservation lands.
- The bottom map shows the developer's "purple spot" plan, with a large purple spot industrial zone in the middle of green Lualualei Valley. The purple spot will allow the rezoning of several hundreds of acres of the developer's land and pave the way for industrial parks, landfills, and other industrial land uses.

Demanding Environmental Justice

Over the years, industrialization, militarization and wrong-headed waste management has unjustly turned the Wai‘anae Coast into O‘ahu’s dumping ground. Wai'anae is a place rich in tradition, with countless sacred and cultural sites, and the largest, most concentrated community of Native Hawaiians in the islands (and the world).

Over the last 20 years, Wai‘anae Coast residents have risen to the call to protect and reclaim their ‘?ina from unjust pollution and poorly planned development. Wai'anae is home to the largest producer of organic greens in Hawai?i, and a place where the movement to reclaim traditional farming practices began--and continues today. Together with rural and Hawaiian communities around the islands, we can say NO to new potential toxic sites, and NO to further loss of agricultural lands in Wai'anae.

What You Can Do

Sign the petition and spread the word! Your voice makes the difference! Tell Honolulu Councilmembers that you support protecting rural lifestyles and agricultural lands in Hawai’i. NO purple spot!

Spread the word! You can email this petition to friends, family and co-workers by sending them this link:  http://bit.ly/purplespotpetition

Learn More

View, download and share the "purple spot" informational fact sheet here: http://tiny.cc/purplespotinfo

Click here to learn more about environmental justice and KAHEA's environmental justice efforts.

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