Posts from May, 2009

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  May0

  Envision Lā‘ie in Honolulu Advertiser
  Caryn Kunz from the Honolulu Advertiser attended the Envision Lā‘ie Open House April 30 and has written an article about the workshops. Ko’olauloa residents, local leaders, and a group of national community planning experts came together last week for a series of evening workshops geared to defining a vision for Lā‘ie‘s future…Over the course of [...]
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• 6
  May0

  Kaleo posts story on workshops
  The online news site Kaleo covering Hauula, Lā‘ie and Kahuku has posted a story by Mike Foley on the Envision Lā’ie Community Workshops held last week. The article includes preliminary results of the instant polling from the 450 local residents who voted during the workshops: 71 percent were from Laie. Affordable housing was the most [...]
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  May0

  Community Workshops
  Aloha!  Envision Lā‘ie is a process by which Lā‘ie and Ko’olau Loa residents, Brigham Young University Hawaii, the Polynesian Cultural Center, Hawaii Reserves Inc. and national regional planning experts are working together to study Lā‘ie and help plan its future possibilities to become sustainable and preserve and protect this place and the values of the [...]
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  May2

  The Story of Lā‘ie
  Envision Lā‘ie is about looking to the future. It’s about campus planning, affordable housing, traffic, drainage, energy consumption, demographics, architecture, tourism trends, schools, community resources and a host of other issues. However, we believe that envisioning Lā‘ie’s future begins by understanding issues far greater than traffic patterns and drainage. Its about understanding the essence of [...]
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  May8

  Envision Lā‘ie community workshops
  Two Envision Lā‘ie Community Workshops for Ko’olau Loa residents were held on April 28-29. These workshops were designed to determine if growth can be a solution and, if so, what type of growth would be required to make Lā’ie sustainable. Envision Lā’ie is a process by which Lā‘ie and Ko’olau Loa residents, Brigham Young University [...]
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