D.R. Horton attorney, Ben Kudo, has concluded his final arguments for why commissioners should approve Hoopili. 

He touched on the main points that the developer has stressed for months: Hoopili is paramount to the city’s vision of a second city; it will create thousands of jobs for unemployed construction workers; the development will create affordable housing for a growing population; and it will provide a live-work-play environment in which residents won’t have to commute to Oahu. 

Kudo aslo stressed that D.R. Horton would be contributing a total of $136 million in cash and donations for traffic mitigation work. This is in addition to several hundred millions of dollars in traffic improvements within the petitioned area, said Kudo. 

The hearing has broken for lunch. It will resume with the opposition: Friends of Makakilo; the Sierra Club; and Sen. Clayton Hee.