Kamehameha Schools said if they can't build the Bungalow Resort then they won't do anything with Keauhou Bay. This is NOT Aloha.
In my over 2 hour meeting with their Vice President of their realty company, Kaeo Durate, I mentioned all the other land they have that they can use to make money.
I asked him why not make homes that Hawaiian people can rent, on other lands, instead of rooms that tourists can rent in a resort that will pollute Keauhou Bay forever. He never answered.
Please read all the comments below from the people who signed the Save Keauhou Bay Petition. These Voices Matter!
Save Keauhou Bay Petition
https://www.change.org/p/save-keauhou-bay-from-becoming-a-big-crowded-resort?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=92a53560-1e91-11e5-b4ef-b94e90cedbdd
Reasons why people signed the Save Keauhou Bay From Becoming a Big Crowded Resort Petition:
Lily
3 weeks ago
KEEP KEAUHOU BAY SIMPLE. DO NOT ADD MORE BUILDINGS....USE THE MONEY TO UPGRADE ALL OF THE RESTROOMS ON THIS ISLAND.
Ess
3 weeks ago
What happens on Hawaii DOES NOT STAY on Hawaii (history cites Pearl Harbor~ look what that catastrophe led to‼ It's vibrations reverberated all over the world in most destructive outcomes). And, the firestorm assault (NOT "wildfire"!) that decimated Lahaina, Maui, taking away SO many lives, is another 21st C. example that became an 'opening salvo' of attacks upon many other towns, cities, et al of the American mainland. These ensuing fires, major floods, quakes, hurricanes, etc. in CA, TX, NM, & other places like Canada, Mexico, Spain, Chile, SE Poland, Czech, Slovakia (and before al these, Australia), etc. are NOT results of 'Global Warming" (a false narrative concocted for an agenda of world control). Resulting in swift decimation of populated lands, major land theft by certain monied parties, private citizen holdings loss, infrastructure destruction, sheer chaos, misery trauma & sadly, death to hundreds/thousands of people. And, now, these local development propsals & plans-- popping up like mushrooms after a rainstorm-- funded by 'unknown financiers', remote development corPIRATES & corrupted local govts. & officials-- ignoring local input by citizenry & running roughshod over their testimonies, their very livelihoods & lives-- are taking away the very inherent human freedoms, lawful & God-given rights of people everywhere‼ This latest example/plandemic-- of profiteering through "destruction & development"-- will rip to shreds this natural and beautiful Keoulua Bay for a condo complex, that will overpopulate, pollute, ruin the scenic value & create future abysmal living conditions for all-- esp. the current community, WILL COME TO YOUR DOORSTEP SOON-- unless We the People unite-- stand up, speak out, SHOUT, publically protest, provide testimony & proof, and in whatever other ways we can, STOP THIS ASSAULT upon our lands, homes, our very lives‼
Denis
3 weeks ago
This is an historical landmark . No exploitation.
David
4 weeks ago
This is a forever decision. There is absolutely no reason to destroy this beautiful bay. Money and profit for a few will destroy the area FOREVER! There isn’t any other bay like this. Take your head out of your wallet!!
Debra
1 month ago
We've been visiting Keauhou Bay for 17 years and it's truly one of the treasures of the Kona coast. Please find somewhere else for the parking lots, leaf blowers and air conditioners. Mahalo!
Jennifer
4 months ago
While I don't live in the Big Island, it's where I meet my husband, & it will always hold a piece of my heart. Especially Keahou Bay where we got to know each other more intimately
Please! Don't destroy the bay!
Chris
5 months ago
I feel that there needs to be a careful balance between keeping areas natural and enjoyable, able to be quietly enjoyed by local residents, and development of resort areas that bring in tourist dollars for the island economy. Since the Kona area already has a number of big resort developments, I feel this project would tip the balance to being overdeveloped, and bring additional traffic and congestion to an area that is more residential than commercial.
Lily
5 months ago
Hawaii island does not need more luxury development for tourists. The ecosystem cannot and should not be asked to absorb any more development and pollution. The local people are being priced out of their generational homes and communities. Luxury tourist development is NOT the answer to Hawaii's challenges.
Connie
6 months ago
Please do not let Keauhou Bay become another resort hotel. People cannot afford to live here, stores and restaurants are under staffed or have closed completely. There are no workers for a 150 room hotel. Build affordable houseing that local residents would be able to purchase, not short term rental investments by mainlain and foreign investors. Fix our infastructure before building another hotel.
Chris
6 months ago
There are already too many resorts in Hawai'i and on Hawai'i Island. The beauty of these islands are not some fabricated corporate owned compound but the land itself. Be pono! Stop ruining Hawai'i!
fernando
6 months ago
To keep the land and culture pure. We must leave it to the people native to it. Pushing business and people’s way of life out to make room for a resort or hotel owned by people from other parts of the world does nothing good.
Tyler
6 months ago
I’ve spent countless days paddling at this bay enjoying the peaceful environment and marine life. More development would just harm this bay even further. Save Keauhou!!
James
7 months ago
This unique historically, culturally, and ecologically important place has already suffered enough. The thought of any more significant development here is completely inappropriate. It is precious the way it is… Do not let this happen.
I am a tourist and saw what the land meant to the locals and I believe is should remain with the locals.
This historical and sacred place has already become over-used and abused by all the tour/ snorkel companies bringing in hundreds of carloads of tourists each day and night! Shame on the DLNR for issuing permits to these greedy tour companies! More traffic at all hours, more pollution from all the motors in the water, and alot more noise and litter. We don't want yet another poor decision from the planners and government down here! It's already suffering from too many people coming down here every day and night, and now they want to destroy what is left with a huge development and parking lot? You want this beautiful place to turn into Mauifornia? Save Keauhou! Save our way of life and Aina. Too much tourism is killing Hawai'i. Each year, each decade the important and beautiful spots are vanishing, to become just like any other ordinary place in the World. Don't let this happen! PK
Please leave this bay alone it is not big enough to support 100’s of tourists enough already
Our Aina should stay our Aina!
This area is already overcrowded.
Leave it be! Don’t need to commercialize every single beautiful place in the world.
We need to leave some of this island in its pristine condition. K Hoebe is not big enough to support a tourist attraction that they are contemplating on building. Leave Keauhou Bay as it is right now.
Keauhou Bay is a special place for native Hawaiians to connect with their cultural heritage. It is already crowded with commercial businesses. It does not need more which only brings tourists crowding the site. I m opposed to more building projects at Keauhou Bay.
Keep keahou the same & don't change a thing
These developers have no right to obliterate the normal and healthy recreation area already there.
I am signing because the land belongs to local people
I am signing because these islands are too developed as is and there should be every effort to determine what areas are still relatively close to their natural settings and not just another place for another short term rental.
Another sold out land for profit!!! When will enough sell out be enough????
I want to save the bay
Es muy importante!
We need to keep the Aina, AINA!!
That would just be tragic!
More land abuse.....
GQP EVIL ROTTEN BASTARDS…..
August 6, 2019
Dear Americans,
THE PLAGUE
Ring around the polls
Republicans on their toes
Much to disclose
Really foes
Time to expose…..
(published Dec. 1992)
I thank the Democrats for all they have done, over the 76 years of my life.
We need to speak to the people about Republican hindrance and how they have
effected our countries progress and hurt most of our citizens. Starting with,
President Obama, we need to inform our citizens; how the Republicans refused to
pass Democratic legislation, spell out HOW it affected the country and “we
citizens.” Every time a congressman or congresswomen speak, have at least 1
example. Unstable 45 should be exposed.. The robber barons have been the
Democratic down fall. They are the real enemies!
EXPOSE
Our Governments self-serving bureaucracy
Corporate greed/lack of responsibility
Peoples’ prejudice/loss of integrity
Organized religion, the medical community
Scores more, ripping-off humanity
America! The land of the free!?
We need to get coverage on local News channels. Even the fox brainwashed,
watch the local News.
Save our Country from crimes against all Americans and the Constitution.
Continue to fight.
Sincerely
DRL
P.S.
Especially the police racist policies. Name the Democratic bills that are being
pigeonholed!
I am signing for all the reasons given. Hawaii does not need more commercial ventures. The true beauty & appreciation of Hawaii is in enjoying nature. Please hands-off. In 20 years, so many will be so grateful for that decision in an over-crowded, commercially motivated island that has displaced it's native inhabitants.
Aina over profit.
Listen to your hearts not your wallets
I love as is!
Keauhou Bay can not withstand that level of development.
This has been a very special place for me since 1980!
We don't need any more peaceful places taken over
I believe we need to protect our sacred spaces. Listen to the voices of the indigenous people. Stop turning every piece of land into something marketable.
Sacred ground should be kept sacred. It provides something that is hard to find in the world
I was raised there in the early 90's and cant see beautiful Keauhou go to some bungalows! Let's all kokua in keeping Keauhou in its original beauty. I dont even have to explain but if you know, you know!
That’s where I grew up
fuck colonization
This local spot should not be ruined by tourism
This ain’t right.
bc I love my island
No
Please don't spoil Keauhou. Or if you insist in going forward, be a zero-waste resort and give a good kama'aina pricing!
Please keep Hawaii the beautiful, natural place we all look forward to visiting!
Enough with the resorts! Leave Keahou bay as it is for everyone to enjoy.
We do NOT NEED ANYMORE HOTELS IN RHIS AREA!!
This property is an important cultural and recreational resource.
Keep Kona Country!!!
The developer seems to contradict themselves, in one hand they say there is a feeling of exclusivity with all the athletic and commercial activities that local families cannot enjoy it and on the other hand they want to build a boutique resort for the 1% tourists - so the Bay can be enjoyed exclusively by wealthy tourists?
Marine ecosystems are extremely fragile, more development along this shoreline is not responsible .
Shame on you Kamehameha Schools!
KEAUHOU BAY.
Please preserve Keauhou’s culture and beauty.
I've lived in or near keauhou for most of my 40 years in hawaii. The resources of the bay are limited, lovely, and cherished by local residents for all they provide for the health and welfare of we humans and the environment upon which we depend. Creating another exclusive enclave for the rich is far from what is needed to protect Hawai`i nei from the ravages it's experienced in the past and is experiencing every minute by those who would exploit her.
I have been here and enjoyed that it was not an over developed exploited tourist destination. I loved the chill vibe and natural beauty
Keep kona beautiful and prestine
Because Beth Athens asked me too and places like this need to be protected
Hawaii should be returned to the natives. They should decide on any changes to their historical sites.
Leave this sacred space alone...
Sounds like a good idea
Keahou Bay is a pristine Bay that us largely untouched and enjoyed by locals. Don't destroy this special place.
Keep the charm of this end of Alii quiet, peaceful and a place where tourists can come to see what the real Hawaii is like. There are already plenty of rentals/accommodations and areas that cater to the tourist trade on Big Island. Be careful what you wish for….just ask some of the other islands. It’s ok to say NO.
Keep Hawaiian lands Hawaiian!!!
Please remember the Hawaiian people and don’t take over every bit of beautiful ocean front, it’s their land not ours!
I’m signing because my child loves to spend time at the bay swimming and also fishing.
WE DO NOT NEED MORE HIGH RISE HOTELS. KINGDOM OF HAWAII, OUR PAE AINA, KEEP THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII IN THE HANDS OF THE KANAKA MAOLI
I am from the Big Island. Our family has enjoyed Keauhou Bay for all our lives. It is beautiful the way it is… no need to build or upgrade. We love it the way it is now.
I care about protecting historic Keauhou Bay Ahupua'a ecosystem
and our community. New resort development for tourism at the proposed large
scale is totally inappropriate for Keauhou Bay. Keauhou Shopping Center has
vacant space - they should not build more. Instead- make this area more
accessible for our community, families and improve the small beach area making
a park & managing trash.
Allow the Hawaii County transit Trolley to access the bus stop on Kaleiopapa
Street so people can access the bay without a car would improve sustainability
and reduce pollution. We need to protect this area for it's cultural,
historical and ecosystem - NOT over develop it for tourists and profit!
We don't need any more development in Hawaiʻi.
To preserve the beauty and health of Keahou bay
STOP THIS MADNESS!!! NO MORE RESORTS!!
Apr 26, 2022 Free Hawaii
No more development on our shore lines
I’m signing because this has to stop! We are not the mainland we will never be the mainland. We have more than enough resorts here. ‘A’ole!
I don’t want to see another resort in our favorite play, R and R places
Enough already.
ENOUGH ALREADY! NO MORE DEVELOPEMENT AT KEAUHOU BAY! WE NEED TO PRESERVE WHAT’S LEFT OF THIS PRECIOUS, SACRED LAND!
This needs to stay as is. No changes please.
Leave it alone! Stop being greedy!
At some point you have to think about when enough development is enough. Nothing will be gained by developing this area except additional exploitation of people and culture that has been exploited enough.
Pleas let Keauhou be! It’s already suffered from pollution
I lived in Kona for almost 7 years and spent a lot of time snorkeling playing cards and partying on that beach. So many great memories. Keep it the way it is please…
Keep Keauhou Bay the way it for our residents and our community
Let’s keep this area of old Hawaii as is. Enough with the development. Have we learned nothing?
It isa sacred place. One of the last to preserve amid the surrounding commercialization and destruction.
Protect the bay!
Apr 24, 2022 It would be a shame to loose Keahou Bay it should remain as is
I want to preserve the historical Keauhou bay
This is well written and I agree, especially about the road. however i believe the comment period is over and i hope some were signed in time!
I have seen far too many developments of this nature on Kaua`i and how severely they have impacted the historical, cultural and uniqueness that is Hawaiian. I hope that this petition and those preserving Hawaii's integrity are successful.
I care!
It’s meant for the public and everywhere is being taken over. It should be public since the pier is right there. They also have group gatherings there to learn about the history. Outsides should stop trying to take native peoples land.
Hawaii belongs to the natives.
I don’t want this turned into a resort..
Native Hawaiian sites must be preserved.
I was born and raised here in Kona from baby time we need place to eat go play and be free from all Buildings 濫濫濫
I live on island and I constantly watch as locations I went to as a kid being turned into resorts or theist hot spots, it’s sad because it’s slowly pushing out the locals and removing areas that we can bring our own children
This should not happen
You want to live in a places that has tourists, but you don't want to live in a tourist town.
Many reasons!!!! Don't build this!!
Resorts are the antithesis if everything I love about the Big Island.
fuck the gentrification of our Ā’ina
It’s been a an amazing outlet for youth to stay out of trouble, stay fit, and have fun. I’ve had some amazing memories there and it would be a shame to lose such an amazing place near to me.
Apr 23, 2022 This is my home.
Keauhou is a local hang out not a tourist attraction. Too many favorite local beaches are getting turned into this and it needs to fuckin stop.
All of the local spots are being blocked off by gates or homes with gated communities. This is not fair the local who were born and raised here should not be locked out of their own land just because greed and money. We have something the rich want until they fully pollute and destroy it and then they no longer want it. Hawaii/ Big island is known to a lot of tourist as the relaxing island. I do not have a problem with tourist but when you buy here on this island as a vacation home now your crowding the island so eventually it will be like Oahu where no one really thinks of it as a vacation spot. Just come stay the week and go home. We have many many many hotels and condos that can’t be full all year round. Support those places that are already built.
Kahona is paradise and should stay as such
The big island is getting crowded enough with another resort.
There are enough beach resorts, where can the residents go when they all become resorts.
This would make me so very sad. Why do rich people feel like they need to take everything away from us and give it to the tourists?? What a shame.
This is my home and I don’t know why you would touch an area that’s been fine since forever.
Strictly against! Thank you, Malle Zablan
Stop!!
We don’t need another resort!
I was a resident on Hawaii Island for 12 years. I honor the history of this historic place and the natural beauty that only it can offer. The tourism industry will destroy this area if more accommodations are constructed. Honor this place.
I lived there and I care.
I love the place to congratulate with friends. I feel that we need to keep it available for all of hawaiian residents to congregate. Please keep it for our children.
Maintain local traditions and protect waterfront beaches!
Save the historical areas before it's gone.
This is King Kamehameha the third birth place and hold significant historical and sacred mana to the island of Hawaii.
There is no more need to take and replace what is already there !!!! This piece of Hawaii, that still is used by keauhou canoe club and and an area for little family gathering, such as Picnics and paddle boarding. Not to mention the boat ramp for fisherman and fishing grounds around the area. This place is well taken care of by the locals of the big island and hold significant Hawaiian history!!!
We don’t need any more hotels, condos, homes on this beach front property. It is a respectable play ground for our children and adults as well from land to water.
Please save hawaii and our sacred land and history from being over built for greed and control.
The resort on Keahou point is way more than enough. The entire Alii drive is hotels, resorts, condos, vacation rentals, and multimillion dollar properties. Why must our community always conform to the greedy desires for people to exploit Hawaii. When you build stuff like this, the area that we all grew up in and have cherished memories in turns into a sad perversion of what it once was.
I love this island because it’s not over crowded and all resorts. We love it the way it is.
The ocean is a sacred place, especially keahou bay. The increase of tourism in that area will be detrimental to marine life, especially the manta rays that reside in that area.
Just wrong… no. please don’t pave paradise to put up a parking lot. There is PLENTY of places for tourists to stay already. Too many.
Keep Hawaii the way it is!
Why ruin a good thing?
We already have way too many resorts on this island, This island will end up just like the rest, overcrowded with tourists.
30 + resident of the Kealakekua/Keauhou ahupuaʻa and have witnessed the influx of traffic on both Alii and Hwy 19 roads. Adding another resort will only add more congestion to a problem of poor infrastructure.
I'm signing this because Keauhou Bay is important to my family. We spend so much of our time here. It is our home away from home. The beach is perfect to take out the paddle board and swim with our daughter. I paddle for Keauhou Canoe Club whose hālau is here. I do not want to see beach "bungalows" where our hālau currently stands. We do not need anymore oceanfront beach bungalows - visitors have plenty of other beachfront options, if that is what they are looking for.
Do not build another resort. There is one right around the corner.
This is a beautiful bay that should be protected and not be overrun by a resort
Aloha aina keep Kona country
We don’t need another resort !
This is our history and culture
No desecration
Stop the Building!
The place is already crowded. We need better roads and alternative routes before more development is built!
I’m an outrigger paddler and enjoy the sport. This club lent us canoes to race in Hawaii.
We need to preserve more land on the islands.
The area is Historical we dont need any more hotels let alone more people moving here and squeezing out local people native to Hawaii.
Keauhou Bay is a precious and sacred place. It deserves to stay that way. The focus should be on housing solutions for residents (in appropriate areas) and land stewardship. Not more resorts destroying the natural and historical sites.
No more unjust, unsustainable development that displaces the local community, negatively alters the land, erases Native Hawaiian culture, & threatens the island’s environmental security. I don’t know how anyone who sees the pervasive displacement & homelessness across Hawaii on a daily basis could propose more investment in unsustainable infrastructure for visitors, and this proposal represents a stifling rejection of truth.
Before more development for visitors, meet the needs of the local community. If you can invest this much money in unnecessary development, then I don’t believe it when it’s said that there’s “not enough money” to meet the basic needs of people who live here, & combat what is probably the most significant & interconnected threat we face: climate change.
I don’t know where visitors will “visit” when there is no longer land to sustain life, because it was exploited, disrespected, & destroyed by a vision of development that prioritizes profit over life.
No more building
Kolohe
Alexis MacLeod Apr 22, 2022 I'm signing because there are not enough unspoiled places left in the world.
I play volleyball down here on the weekends and I don’t want to lose something that makes me happy
I love Hawaii, not developing every square inch
Please keep Keauhou just as it is. This is a historical area that needs to be kept natural with care. Aloha.
This place is an amazing place that we love and don't want it gone
Hawaii needs more HOUSING for Hawaiians before we desecrate more land to serve tourists who don’t live here. We need to preserve the land and beach space and act as stewards of the land - not pave over paradise and put up more parking lots.
I’m signing because we have so much resorts! Not only do we have so much resorts but there is so much history behind keahou and putting a resort there would just the defeat the purpose of why keahou bay is there and why it’s so important
Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawaii
The life of the land is perpetuated in righteous.
Apr 22, 2022 Respect the locals!!
As a local Born and raised on the Big island Of Hawaii is n Kona town, I can remember so many because or public access being taken away from the People who live the Hawaiian ways. If they build this will only be another public access being denied to the locals of Hawaii.
This is a sacred place for the Hawaiian people that should be left alone and not developed.
Enuf! Don't turn this place into a Joni Mitchell song.
Resorts are gross
This is my favorite local spot to still swim, boat, and surf. If we over populate it, it will kill off the local wildlife and human life. Please stop killing the coral 視 and livelyhood. It’s the first place I ever played volleyball on the island. Its where I go to meditate and swim in clean water. Away from the tourist
Stop corporations.
Save our beach! Please don’t develop it!
I’ve paddle there for so long you can’t just take that down
We don’t need another resort on this island. That’s a significant tourist and local spot where plenty people go to have fun. Putting a resort there would ruin it.
I believe there should be recreational spaces in our community.
Please sign. When is enough going to be ENOUGH!??若
I love this court! would be a shame to get rid of it…. one of the very few nice beach courts on the kona side.
This is a wonderful space for volleyball and beach time with my family
volleyball
We have enough developments. We need places for our local residents to gather and enjoy our Aina. We need to keep the volleyball courts and the canoe hale for locals.
Elisha Vierra Apr 21, 2022 I want to keep keauhou bay the way it is and all it’s artifacts
There's no need for a resort, it's only greed.
I NEED TO AND THATS NOT OKAY TO DO !
I have lived here all my Life we can not let our island get over run with this kind of stuff.
How about tear down the condos and build more volleyball courts
I really don’t want it to go I love the volleyball court and another resort hell nah!
Leave our Bay alone!!!
This land belongs to the people
Appalling plan for this land. We have more than enough resort developments. Please show respect and keep Keauhou Bay sacred and peaceful.
Apr 21, 2022 This is a terrible idea for this historic area creating traffic, congestion and ruining community character. Owner at Kanaloa at Kona.
Historical! Leave it alone
Ancestral connection
I’ve experienced this sacred park & beach and see the history and benefit of it being easily available for locals and visitors alike. Over developing is a fine line and a new proposal of additional resort dwellings would be a tipping point for preserving access to this space. Please consider this pocket to be important enough to protect
Development of these beautiful bays and coastlines has to stop! It’s ruining the ecosystems of the ocean.
This development is completely unnecessary and will do no good only harm. The existing hotel Outrigger sits half empty and the Keauhou Shopping center commercial space is mostly vacant. The traffic corridor will be hugely disruptive. This cannot be built.
Enough is enough!!! Listen to the Hawaiian people and do right by them. Respect.
Apr 19, 2022 Please keep Keauhou Bay the way it is. PLEASE PRESERVE. Please respect Hawaii and not give to greedy people who care not about us.
These are luxury condos. A bungalow is a single level unit. Why don't they build it at the former Keauhou Beach Hotel? Or Kona Lagoon. No major development should be allowed till the Alii Highway is installed.
Keeping ancient Hawaiian culture is important!
Save this beautiful historic site. Build your bungalows somewhere else. This public site will then become off limits to everyone but the rich living there.
Group 70 International, Inc. dba G70
111 S. King Street, Suite 170
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813
Attn: Kawika McKeague, Principal Planner
Email: KeauhouBay@g70.design
Fax: (808) 523-5866
Aloha,
My name is Cindy Freitas and I’m a Native Hawaiian descended of the native inhabitants of Hawai’i prior to 1778 and born and raised in Hawai’i.
I am also a practitioner who still practice the cultural traditional customary practices that was instill in me by my grandparents at a young age from mauka (MOUNTAIN TO SEA) to makai in many areas.
Native Hawaiian culture and natural resources, Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail is a 175 mile corridor encompassing a network of culturally and historically significant trails. This "trail by the sea" traverses wahi pana (storied landscapes), ancient Hawaiian sites and over 200 ahupuaʻa (traditional land divisions)
The Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail passes through and provides opportunities to protect significant natural areas and ecosystems with indigenous and endemic species along its route which includes,
Anchialine pools
Caves
endemic species habitat
endangered and threatened species
ecological zones
lava forms and formations
Keauhou Bay falls in this Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail
Therefore it is unacceptable for any DEVELOPERS to build any thing on the Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail.
Mahalo,
____/s/____
Cindy Freitas
This is a sacred area and not big enough for more tourism. Respect the Āina and the folks living here. A’ole development!
This is outrangeous. There are plenty of resorts already.
We need to protect and embrace these sacred, neighborhood places and not allow big money and commercial developments to come in and destroy them.
Enough development for visitors use.
This is sacred land. Get yer paws off it!
We don't even have enough staffing on the island to accommodate another resort. Take a look around at all the help wanted signs and vacant buildings in Kona. The last thing we need is more development.
Kam Schools Capital has a monopoly on bays and access in Keaouhou and a pattern of taking away access from the community. Look at what they have done to Heeia Bay!
Another resort is not needed, this peaceful place is needed.
That area needs to stay natural. Enough condos and shops already in Keauhou. Use the money to help Naive Hawaiians build homes.
We have enough big resorts don't take away another bay
We vacation there
Apr 15, 2022 I want to save this area from further development.
Because I have lived on a barrier island that was ridiculously over built causing all kinds of traffic issues and environmental trauma to the National Park it abutted. Spaces like this are so important for residents and guests. Celebrate it…don’t destroy it
There is already an Outrigger Resort there. It needs renovation and reopening of its restaurant venues - that’s plenty for that small little bay.
WTF!
KEEP HAWAII IN HAWAIIAN HANDS
Keep Hawaii’s natural beauty!
I grew up there and don’t want to see it change in a negative way.
To much buildings
Apr 15, 2022 No more resorts at Keauhou. Save the bay
Keauhou bay already has a perfect balance of visitors and locals. There is no space for yet another resort of any kind to be built! The harbor is small, it is already maxed out on tourists, boats and humans
I’m signing because there aren’t any places left on the Kona side of the island that aren’t overcrowded!
I’m signing because nobody should be developing on a bay front with waters rising, and no place else to go that’s not overcrowded!
Let’s get more affordable housing for local people instead.
This area does not have the infrastructure to support more development and run off into the bay will further compromise the reef and water quality.
This bay needs to be left just the way it is.
It’s one of our only playing grounds left for the local people of and our keikis to enjoyed without all the mainland humbug , and crowds.. There going to destroy the ocean. Leave it be!!!!!
Debbie Hecht Apr 15, 2022 Keep Keahou Bay accessible. The cess pools along the north side need to be replaced by sewers.
The Keauhou Bay Area is a favorite area for locals and has been for years. The many activities that occur regularly begin and end there. Making unneeded changes would spoil its existence, not to mention robbing those who continue to honor Hawaiian legacy.
I want to preserve the beauty and history for all
Keep Keahou Bay natural!
Not every beautiful bay needs a resort
It’s good
My brother and I grew up there, I still come back when I go see my family. It's been through (and is going through) enough tourist abuse. Leave it be.
I’m concerned about the increased traffic on lower Kam III, and what will be done to protect existing residents from the increased noise.
In my lifetime, I've witnessed Oahu go from a peaceful tropical oasis to an overpopulated tourist site. Allowing this development will take away why many of us chose to live on Hawaii Island and at Keauhou Bay. We don't always need to cater to the tourist and greed. Malama `Aina!
When is enough, enough!?! Kamehameha Schools claims to be ashamed of how they have managed the `aina at the bay, but this plan clearly proves they have no shame when it comes to properties they consider financially underachieving, no matter the cost.
Keauhou Bay i sacred
Less is more, keep the beaches cleaner save water sacred beaches keep sacred
A sacred place for the local people!!!
Don’t OverDevilop Kona !!!!
I am handicapped and elderly.. I can't get in the water where there is waves. This is one of the few places I can go!
My brother’s and grandmother’s ashes are in this bay. I go here to be with them. If they build a resort here how can I? Plus I paddled for Keauhou canoe club. Where will they paddle? I am strongly against this! No no no!!!!
I love Keauhou Bay and raised my kids there. I have paddled there for almost 30 years. It’s a treasure.
Keauhou does not need and cannot handle more condos or resorts. No no no to more development on our already fragile over crowded coast.