Remember those curious resolutions Nestor Garcia introduced a couple weeks ago about building out East Honolulu and charging users more for sewage repairs and bus rides instead of having taxpayers foot the bill?

Some people are paying attention.

The suggestion that Honolulu should reconsider Kapolei as the “second city” and instead direct some growth back toward East Honolulu didn’t sit well with the Hawaii Kai Neighborhood Board, which voted to oppose one of Garcia’s proposals.

The Hawaii Kai neighborhood board opposes City Council Resolution 12-68 and requests the Administration to uphold the current planning process the Hawaii Kai community is already engaged in. The General Plan draft review (which factors in population and respective directed growth) is in progress plus the East Honolulu Sustainable Communities Plan draft review is already posted online. The Hawaii Kai Neighborhood Board strongly opposes Resolution 12-68.

A member of the board emailed me and said the scary initiatives at the council and the Legislature made her feel like she was in “a B-rated Sci Fi flick with a bad, bad ending.”

The Kuliouou-Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board is set to discuss the resolution Thursday night. But the City Council isn’t waiting for any more community input, and will instead take the matter up Thursday morning in the Zoning and Planning Committee meeting.

There’s probably not too much to worry about. I wrote previously that Garcia’s proposals seemed unlikely to gain traction. When I saw him a couple of days later, he confirmed his intentions were not to enact policy but instead to point out hypocrisy and absurdity.

If Garcia was hoping to get a rise out of the East Honolulu community, he must see the quick neighborhood board response as mission accomplished. With renewed pressure to keep direct growth toward Kapolei, can Garcia make the case that rail transit is necessary, and that everyone should chip in?

(Photo by Flickr user madmarv00)