On similar grounds, Duane Kanuha, then the planning director for the County of Hawai'i, also opposed the removal of conditions. Following those objections, Hamakua Sugar Company filed a long-overdue progress report, dated Match 15, 1990. That report shows that Hamakua Sugar had sold the entire area placed into the urban district by the LUC and provides a summary of the land exchanges that led up to this situation. I do have a very major debt on the property which I incurred when I purchased the property in 1984. So I do wish to make housing available.
Housing is a problem in that area.
And making affordable housing to our employees is one of my other major objectives. The LUC approved deleting the existing conditions. When conditions run with the land and are binding on its owner, there might be a reasonable hope of obtaining compliance. In the case of the new condition imposed upon Hamakua Sugar Company, there would seem to be no enforceable encumbrance on any property. Yet another area in Honoka'a was placed into the Urban land use district as a result of a petition by Hamakua Sugar Company.