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04/30/2016

Surf Report 04-30-2016

Waves: 1-2 Feet
Wind: Trades

Kinda windy but kinda fun!

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04/29/2016

Our Ala Moana Park

If you're opposed to losing our beach side parking to a bike lane - Send in a comment!

Click here to comment - http://www.ouralamoanapark.com/

Is this the future you want?

Posted at 08:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Surf Report 04-29-2016

Waves: 1+ Feet

Wind: Trades

No surf for me - gotta go work early.

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Many of the beach gang were in attendance at last night's meeting.

They had lots of boards showing the present and the proposed. Citing the comments from the public.

Mr. Mayor got to explain his plan. I believe they really want to hear what we want.

The public also got to voice concerns to the City officials.

Some ideas aren't bad like improving the ponds.

Another idea is to open McCoy pavillion to the public - I like that because it is under used by the public.

This was a interesting shot of the beach.

I am AGAINST the proposed bike lane and elimination of beach side parking! This is bad!

We all got to put our comments on paper for review.

The city willl review all comments then come back with a new proposal in the summer.

If you couldn't make it to the meeting, go to http://www.ouralamoanapark.com/ and leave a comment.

I left a comment and will continue to leave more - we need to voice our concerns!

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04/28/2016

Surf Report 04-28-2016

Waves: 1 - 2 Feet

Wind: Moderate Trades

Still windy but we got a few nuggets!

City officials and news crew were out early, urging everyone to attend tonight's meeting or go to www.ouralamoanapark.com to voice your opinion.

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04/27/2016

Surf Report 04-27-2016

Waves: 1 - 2 Feet

Wind: Moderate Trades

Windy and bumpy!

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I encourage everyone concerned to go to http://www.ouralamoanapark.com/ and see what's being proposed.

You should also add a comment to voice your opinion. Speak up or shut up!

I recently commented to disagree with the proposed bike lane and the elimination of the beach side parking.

I received the following email from Chris Dacus from the City and County.

"Good Morning Mr. Nakamaru,

Thank you for your email received April 25th regarding Ala Moana Regional Park. I appreciate your comments regarding the beach road, beach walk, bicycle lanes and parking at the keyhole.

First of all, nothing is set in stone. The purpose of this meeting this Thursday from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at McCoy Pavilion at Ala Moana Regional Park is to get public feedback on ideas generated largely from the public. The plans incorporate ideas from over 50,000 web interactions, thousands of comments and over 800 stakeholder interviews. Some common themes arose – fix the park, improve maintenance and enhance the park with residents in mind.

Parking is seen by many people as an access issue since most people drive to the park. There are 948 existing parking spaces at the park. The conceptual plan when implemented has 948 parking spaces for no loss of parking. Not even one space is lost. Rest assured all 948 spaces will remain free.

The improvements shown in the draft conceptual plan at the park are focused on what’s the most important reason for visiting a beach park – the beach. The beach sand will be replenished in the near future to historical boundaries. The wall at the back side of the beach will remain in the same the location. The beach walk will be enlarged and enhanced for residents with more seating and a wider path. The details regarding plants and trees in the beachwalk area are shown conceptually and nothing has been discussed at that detailed level. This is a master plan and the construction plans for the sidewalk are years away from being done.

The parking on the makai side will be relocated to the mauka side of the beach road allowing for scenic views of the ocean while bicycling or driving through the park. The same number of parking spaces will be distributed along the road as exists now. Your favorite parking spot along the road will have the same number of parking spaces. The distance from the beach walk from the mauka parked cars will be approximately 30 feet. A new sidewalk will be installed on the mauka side of the road.

In addition, the entire length of the beach road will be a loading/unloading zone so park users can stop closest to their favorite spot on the beach and drop of their gear. Some parking will be added between McCoy Pavilion and the Lawn Bowling, which fronts the Hughes development. Trees will increase threefold in this parking area, pavement will be porous and grass strips between parking lanes will bioremediate road grit from brake pads and other heavy metals generated from cars. Many sustainable features will be incorporated into the park.

This is the People’s Park and from day one the emphasis has always been to keep the park local. The park is 82 years old and in need of repairs from 50 years of deferring maintenance. The last major improvement was over 50 years ago when Magic Island was built. Over the 82 years, the use of the park has substantially changed from a park for strolling and a couple of baseball fields to a beach park with the literally hundreds of different types of uses (the beach didn’t appear until 1955!), but the park largely hasn’t been improved to accommodate the way residents use the park.

Please attend the public open house this Thursday from 6-8pm at McCoy Pavilion and see what’s being proposed gleaned from thousands of interactions with the public. Please participate and help honor the past, live in the present and plan for the future.

After this meeting, the plans will be revised based on public input and another meeting will share the final plans later in the summer. Before anything is built there will additional public meetings and opportunities for public input.

We need your thoughts on what will be best for the park. I hope to see you there.

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Chris Dacus
Executive Assistant
City and County of Honolulu

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04/26/2016

Surf Report 04-26-2016

Waves: 1 - 2 Feet

Wind: Trades

Small-kine fun-kine! Stay home tomorrow - going be junk!

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04/25/2016

Surf Report 04-25-2016

Waves: 1 - 2 Feet

Wind: Moderate Trades

The swell is barely hanging on - a few good ones still rolling in.

No surf pics today - I was busy trying to make up for yesterday!

Happy Monday!

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Yesterday Dawn and I worked on her school project. This is part of her Global Village project where the students need to make a product from the country they are studying. Dawn's country is Israel and her product is a dreidel. What's a dreidel? I just found out recently, its a top! We went to City Mill and bought some 2x2 and dowels, then cut it up on the band saw.

Insert the dowels..........

Paint um up!

She was stoked!

She even packaged the dreidels so nicely!

Coming soon all the students will have a Global Village sale, where everyone sells their products and all the money rasied will be donated to a non-profit charity of their choosing!

Awesome!

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04/24/2016

Sunday 04-24-2016

No surf today, staying home with Dawn.

Yesterday Dora and I went to try Alejandro's. Dora loves Mexican food so I wanted to take her there. I heard good things about this place.

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It's in Kalihi valley at the pink store. They have counter style seating but it's all served take out style. Saturday is $1.00 off the Macho Burritos!

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We both got the Macho burrito with carnitas. It was excellent. What makes it good is they crisp the carnitas on the flat top before filling the burrito. So Ono!

The two sauces are complimentary hot sauces. Green is mild and red is habanero, both were good.

I only wish they had some good salsa and chips.

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