Letter: Use eminent domain to further Skyline TOD
A letter writer criticizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority for planning a $300,000 international trip to study transit-oriented development, suggesting the funds should be used differently.
This proposed Hawaii Community Development Authority junket is an admission that the state doesn’t know what they are doing with transit-oriented development (TOD) (“State leaders seek ideas on transit development,” Star-Advertiser, Sept. 14). They could learn all about it with a little basic research, not wasting $300,000 on an international junket.
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