Promise to do even more during 1998. A sustainability plan guides long-term management of key resources such as drinking water, open space, coral, fisheries, forests and beaches. Cooperation with investors to incorporate high-tech infrastructure in new business construction with the idea of giving Kakaako Makai a character similar to the Microsoft campus in Seattle. A proposal to streamline waterfront, harbor and shore management by merging four state agencies into a new Hawaii Maritime Authority for planning and financing projects with long-term benefits. Summary Proliferation of local ordinances is detrimental to affordable housing.
Task force recommends reform and greater accountability of local housing authority boards.
Proposed Department of Environmental Quality should ensure balance between economic growth, public health and the environment. Sprawl eats up our open space. It creates traffic jams that boggle the mind and pollute the air. Sprawl can make one feel downright claustrophobic about our future. Vision of the state as a High-Tech Development Corridor for the XXI century.