ART MAUI 2002 +Public Opinion o Makena Plan

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Art Maui 2002 …. AND…  Public Opinion On Makena Plan

Summary & Transcript Below…

• [00:01 → 09:27]
  Opening Musical and Artistic Expression
• The video begins with a musical performance featuring lyrics emphasizing family, love, mutual support, and resilience, referencing an island style or cultural identity (“Maui style,” “country style”).
• The atmosphere is celebratory, with audience applause and a positive tone.
• Introduction to Art Maui and Jason, indicating a community or artistic event setting.
• This segment sets a cultural and emotional tone, highlighting themes of connection and local pride.
• [09:27 → 37:19]
  Guerilla Art Show and Pigeon Expression Movement
• The speaker reveals participation in a “guerilla art show,” described as illegal because it defies conventional regulations and formal juried selection processes.
• The art is displayed without permission, termed “pigeon expression”—an alternative artistic method emphasizing self-expression outside official sanction.
• The speaker reflects on the challenge of exhibiting art through traditional channels and chooses to “choose myself” to display work regardless of jury decisions or official approval, embodying art for art’s sake without commercial intent.
• Digital reproductions of full-size canvases are presented, creating an unauthorized gallery within an existing gallery space, demonstrating innovative, rebellious art presentation.
• The segment highlights the tension between institutional art regulation and artist autonomy, underscoring the value of self-determination in creative expression.
• [37:19 → 44:21]
  Musical Interlude and Emotional Themes of Love and Commitment
• The video returns to musical content, with lyrics describing deep emotional bonds, love, friendship, and lifelong commitment (references to weddings, “band of gold,” and being “shining star”).
• The recurring motif of “Maui style” reappears, encouraging the audience to carry the island spirit wherever they go, fostering a sense of identity and renewal (“look to the heavens,” “feel brand new again”).
• The music reinforces community, familial love, and perseverance.

• [44:21 → 48:27]
  Public Discussion on Infrastructure and Zoning Concerns
• Transition to a formal public hearing or council meeting focused on zoning and infrastructure issues related to the McKenna Resort development project.
• Key points raised by a speaker (likely a council or planning official named Michelle):
  • Current service levels in the area are rated F, far below the acceptable level C.
  • A traffic impact analysis is legally required but delayed until June 2002, raising concerns about proceeding without full data on infrastructure costs or impacts.
  • Uncertainty about the status of the Central Maui joint venture and potential legal liabilities regarding water rights and supply.
  • Suggestion that any legal costs from water-related lawsuits should be borne by the developer, not taxpayers.
  • Recommendation to send the zoning decision back to committee to resolve unanswered questions and receive proper documentation.
• This segment highlights significant procedural and environmental concerns surrounding the development, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability.
• [48:27 → 51:18]
  Union Member Testimony Supporting Development
• Keith Stone Street, a union carpenter, provides testimony in favor of the McKenna Resort project, emphasizing:
  • The inevitability of progress and economic development.
  • Criticism of environmentalist behavior in other areas, suggesting some opposition lacks practical basis.
  • The impact of September 11th on tourism and employment, highlighting job losses and economic uncertainty.
  • The importance of continued development to sustain local jobs and the economy.
• He empathizes with Native Hawaiians’ concerns but stresses the need for jobs for working people like himself.
• This testimony underscores the economic and social dimensions influencing support for development, especially labor and employment considerations.
• [51:18 → 55:40]
  Additional Public Testimony on Infrastructure and Mass Transit Needs
• Daniel Mr., a Bay Area transplant and union carpenter, supports the project, emphasizing:
  • The need for mass transit on Maui to reduce car congestion.
  • Examples of transit systems on other Hawaiian islands and the Bay Area.
  • The inevitability of population growth and development despite resistance.
  • Infrastructure upgrades (electrical power, roads) are necessary and tied to development.
  • Suggests public-private partnerships, possibly involving developers and hotels, to help fund transit and infrastructure.
  • Advocates against placing the entire financial burden on taxpayers, preferring shared responsibility with developers.
• This testimony stresses the importance of sustainable infrastructure planning linked to development projects.
• [55:40 → 56:09]
  Call to Civic Engagement
• The narrator urges viewers to register to vote and participate in local government decisions, emphasizing that voting is essential to influence outcomes on contentious issues like zoning and development.
• The message is that active political participation is critical for community members to have their voices heard.
• [56:09 → 58:29]
  Closing Musical Segment
• The video closes with a reprise of the musical themes from the beginning, reinforcing messages of community, love, resilience, and pride in the local “Maui style.”
• Lyrics emphasize mutual support, family bonds, and encouragement to “pick yourself up and get on your feet,” evoking hope and solidarity.
• The ending music and applause suggest a celebratory and uplifting conclusion.

Key Themes and Insights

Summary Table: McKenna Resort Development Discussion

Keywords

• Guerilla Art
• Pigeon Expression
• Maui Style
• McKenna Resort
• Zoning and Infrastructure
• Traffic Impact Analysis
• Water Rights Lawsuit
• Union Testimony
• Mass Transit
• Public Participation
• Economic Development
• Environmental Protection

Conclusion

This video blends cultural expression through music and art with community and political discourse about development challenges on Maui. The artistic segments celebrate local identity and autonomy, while the public hearing sections reveal complex debates over infrastructure, environmental concerns, economic necessity, and governance transparency related to the McKenna Resort project. The narrative encourages active civic engagement, highlighting the importance of voting and community involvement in shaping the island’s future. The testimonies provide a balanced view of competing priorities: economic growth and job creation versus environmental sustainability and responsible planning. The call for shared responsibility in funding infrastructure and the necessity of transparent, informed decision-making emerge as critical takeaways.

Good to see you, Jason.

09:27

What’s going on here? I dropped some. That looks like art. It’s a gorilla art show. A gorilla art show. Illegal. All these images. Against the law. [Music] He’s still going. Got to be careful. Isn’t this great? Yeah. What I just did was illegal. Why? Cuz it’s art that’s without regulation. It’s in the school of pigeon express. Oh, I have to be very careful. I see that. Well, we’re going from here to the sal represent. pain. He will take it all away and make us brand new again. If we call

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his name. If we call his name. If we call his name. If we call his name, if we call Yeah. Oh. Oh. He loves He loves He loves you now. He loves He loves He loves you now. You [Music] got Eyes of summer. Those blue eyes of summer. Those blue eyes. Send me. Going to climb that mountain to the little town. Going to see the girl in the little green house. Going to make my way through night and day. Just a little bit closer. Sly. Through the window I see her looking out at me in her cut off jeans. Yeah, I really really need. Is it

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just that I feel so good inside just a little bit closer? Send me those blue eyes of summer. Those blue eyes of summer. Those blue eyes of summer. Those blue eyes. Send me those blue eyes of summer. Those blue eyes of summer. Those blue eyes of summer. Those blue eyes. Send me. Going to climb that mountain to the little town. Going to see the girl in the little greenhouse. Going to make my way through night and day. Just a little bit closer. I see her looking at me. Aloha. Aloha. You’re still doing your art. That’s nice

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to see. I was very successful at an illegal opportunity that I had to express pigeon expression. Well, pigeon expression, I think it deserves uh another uh chance to be heard. Well, the thing is about hearing it is like seeing it there in the show illegally on the floor being displayed. This was one of the ups of the century for me. I know we’re only early into the century. This is only 2002, but since starting this school in the year 2000, I have had a very difficult time having my illegal shows. And this one happened

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without anybody being aware of it except you and the audience. Ah, I think this is wonderful that I was able to do this and not go to jail for it. Well, you know, it was interesting. I was speaking to one of the um people inside who happens to have a piece in the show, but she was mentioning even the juror who who juried the show acknowledged and recognized that even though he chose 140 pieces out of 800, someone else could have chose a totally different 140. So your notions of the Pigeon Express and everyone having an

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opportunity to be seen and not to feel less because they’re not chosen by the jury one. It goes to show you if you need or have the need to feel to be chosen, choose yourself. I went out there and chose myself to have a show in a show. Even though it wasn’t acceptable and I broke all the rules and all the regulations, I enjoyed doing this. This is art for art’s sake. I’m not making any money at this and so I’m not I’m just having fun. I think it’s terrific and we want to

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salute you. Aloha. Aloha. Now you can look at at these pieces and they’re all digital reproductions of canvases that I’ve done. Oh, full size. And so what I’m doing is putting this together so that I have I can lay my cards on the table. Okay. and I can show you what I’ve done or show anybody. And it’s fun. It’s a new presentation, new venue for art shows. So, I made a gallery out of a gallery without their permission. This is great. I love you. [Music] There is no other one.

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What I feel here for you, holding you in my arms, cradle you with my love. You’re all dressed in white, looking in your eyes. Till all the world tonight I’ll be falling. You’re my shining star. From this day on I’ll be your friend. I’ll be by your side. Blessed are we this night. shower us with his love. Will you be mine tonight? Giving you all my love. And when we look back at our wedding day, this band of gold that we will share, never ending love for all my life. Then I do.

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Oh, [Music] matter where you go. No matter what you do, take that Maui style with you. Cuz you stine [Music] in your heart. It’s been with you from the start. Lift your head. Look to the heavens. Then you will feel brand new again. Don’t stop me now. Maui Island. Don’t let me down. Don’t let me down. Don’t let me down. Don’t let me down. Reach out your hand and help each other. Your mother, your father, your sister and brother. There is love in this family. Pick yourself up

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and get on your feet. Don’t stop me now. Maui sty don’t let me down. [Music] Maui sty don’t let me down styling up country styling [Music] Don’t let me down. Don’t let me down. Don’t let me down. My style down. [Music] Don’t stop now. Styling. [Applause] of service is supposed to be for our major thorough affairs. Well, an acceptable level of service would be C and we’re at F. Okay. Is there anything that you have gone through in the documentation that you’ve seen that is going to

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get us that level level of service C? No. And as a matter of fact, one of the requirements in a change in zoning is a traffic impact analysis, not just for the um area that McKenna Resort is in, but for the regional area that that their buildout will affect. And they were required by the state land use commission to come up with this impact analysis and a determination of what the cost would be to bring the infrastructure up to up to grade. and they were supposed to do that before they came to the council for zoning.

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They got an amendment from the state land use commission to delay that until June of 2002. So, we don’t even know what the cost is going to be and they’re asking for zoning. Okay. And the other question has to do with the um Central Maui joint venture. I’ve heard that it’s a done, you know, it’s over and done with. And then on the other side of the coin, I’ve heard that it’s not done with. Is there in your opinion a potential for the county to be sued for whatever water is perceived to be owed

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under that agreement? Um, I would think that if you’re going to pass this that you should put a uh requirement in the change in zoning that if um if McKenna Resort and the county of Maui get sued for whatever water source they end up using that the developer should bear the the burden of the cost of that legal of that lawsuit and not the county taxpayers. Okay. Thank you. And and the final thing is you’re from what I’m hearing you’re you’re recommending that this go back to committee so that we can answer these

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questions. Uh please I mean we have some very important questions here that were asked of our cap county corporation council asked of our um director of planning asked of our director of public works. Very important questions about this about this major land entitlement. None of these letters have been answered and the land chairman went ahead and pushed this through in a 14-hour meeting after he’d written these letters 10 days previous and we still have no answers. Thank you very much, Michelle.

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members. Uh, everybody, my name is uh, Keith Stone Street and I’m a union member of the Carpenters Local 745 and I believe that it would be a great benefit to all our union members in the local for you to vote yes on this as uh, you know, progress is going to go either way. You know, you can’t stop progress. I’ve heard heard a lot of people talk about the impact of the environment and stuff on this, but you you should see some of these people that are talking about the impact on the environment. Go

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out to uh Laaroo and uh look at some of the things they have done to the land out there. I’ve been here for a year and I can tell you one thing that I have seen these people out there taking new trees and cutting them down and using them for fireworks, running around on around there naked and playing like they’re uh you know down to earth with nature. People got to get real. You know, there’s more to life that’s going on in this world. We had the tragedy of September 11th. This has affected a lot

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of people. And then and it’s still going on. We have terrorists threatening us every day of our lives whether we’re going to get on a plane or not. Are we going to leave when we get on that plane or are we going to die? You know, I hear everybody griping about the water situation and everything else. And I just think that uh you should consider the future of your island. I think this is a lovely place and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. I plan on dying here, but I think you should uh

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reconsider your votes and vote yes on it. That’s all I have to say. Thank you. The hotels or the time share, whatever, so that we can have our visitors come here is something that’s desirable, but you also spoke about September 11th. Mhm. Do you believe that by becoming increasingly dependent on tourism that we are risking the future of our island? If we have another September 11th and the tourists don’t come or if you don’t uh depend on the uh tourists to get the tourists to come

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here, you your your uh island is going to fall apart in an amount of time. You know, look at how many jobs have been lost since it’s September 11th. How many more jobs are out there lost? There’s 150 of us carpenters out there that aren’t working, haven’t worked since before Christmas. And you see these people I I feel for the Hawaiians. Have nothing against the Hawaiians. I hear from where they’re coming from. I hear from where everybody’s coming from. But they got to look at uh people like me

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that work for a living that have built things and will continue to build things and we need the work. The work isn’t out there where everybody says all these projects that are going on, they’re not going on as much as that everybody claims there is. And that’s all I know. Okay. Well, mainly I’m just trying to establish if you believe that by being more dependent on tourism that that’s good for us in Yes, I do. How you doing? I’m Daniel Mr. I’m from the Bay Area. I’ve been here almost 9

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years. I’ve worked ever since I came here. I’ve done I don’t let a burden on the system. I’ve worked hotels, restaurants. I cooked. Now I’m belong to the carpenters union. I’ve been in front of 60. I’ve worked for three years with the union. Now, this project is it’s got a good lot of good benefits to it. We do need mass transit here. We didn’t need a a shortcut from up country. I live up country and they come down here. I have neighbors that work in Bua. I mean, they

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got to run all the way down to Koui and I that’s a long haul. I mean, that little shortcut the guy one guy mentioned wouldn’t be a bad way to put through here. But mass transit we do need on the island. Bus service. The Big Island has it. Hawaii has it. A Wahoo has it. I mean, we cut down some of the cars. It’s not going to be a big problem. But, you know, environmentalists have a good point of protecting the environment, but I’m from the Bay Area. We put in the barn system and would spread it all over the Bay

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Area. After they got done chewing it out and said it would drag people into the Bay Area, people came anyway. People are going to come. If they want to come here and live, they’re going to come. I mean, it’s sad that they’re going to build up the island, but the thing is, if people want to be here, they’re going to come. They’re going to put a tent up or RV up or they’re going to come here. And and more you resist, more they they’ll come. Um, Bar Hills did good in some areas of

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the park, but they also cost the taxpayers just for one little stretch, a 10-mi stretch of Mountain View. It cost the guy the taxpayers almost half of what it cost to put that whole system up to this day’s prices to just do that little system. So to to look at this, they’ll create jobs for a lot of people down the road, but at the same time, it’ll help improve the infrastructure. I live upcountry Maui and that’s infrastructure needs to be electrical power needs to be upgraded

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but the same here be upgrading the system and I work I need to feed myself and house myself I don’t want to be a burden on the side I work for a living I don’t get nothing from the county or nothing so I’m for this bill and I’d like to see it go through and mass transit Maybe that shortcut through there. Maybe another hospital in Kihei because Ki is really big and one what one major hospital in the what was it? Tumin Kalooi. I think they need to start from one on this side for Lahaina Kihei

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Allayia. So all right. Thank you. Do you think that the developer should help to pay for some of the things you’re talking about, the mass transit and, you know, some of the hospital and some of the infrastructure in proportion to the amount that they’re going to be developing? Well, I’d like to see a private I’d like to see a company like Dahoo has. They have a what is that? A private company that runs the bus city bus service or is that a city-owned company? Well, if it’s could be a partnership,

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then they could do it. get the tourists to take the bus from the there and cut down a lot of the buses and go with these like little heavy line these little electric cars and you know kind of get the traffic down and then maybe get the law that enforce the traffic laws and then the tourists come here and boy they wa drivers drive too slow and no or they go too fast. But but you think that the developers then could partner with the I think the hotels if they work with the city if they put a city bus service in,

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you know, everybody pitch into it. But that’s the only way you’re going to get rid of some of the cars. Widening the roads and adding new roads, it’s going to help. But mass transit, this island needs, it’s too big. It needs mass transit. That answers my question. I just wanted to make sure that you didn’t want the taxpayers the whole bill. No, I’d like to see the developers take some of it, but no, you know, share it enough. Thank you. Aloha. As you can see, there’s been a lot of

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testimony both for and against the reszoning of McKenna. No matter what your position on this issue, I’m sure that if you have an opinion and you want the council to vote your opinion, register and vote. without registering to vote, no matter what your opinion is, you will never get the result that you want. So that’s probably the greatest issue here is take advantage of the right that you have register.