Former NAS Barbers Point Historic Homes Hacked Up and Fires Set For "Fire Seminar"
By John Bond
Almost no one, especially not the State of Hawaii Preservation Department (SHPD) or Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) will explain why beautiful homes, listed on State and Federal lists, are being allowed to be hacked up by an out of state contractor in the "place of excellence" called Kalaeloa... formerly known as Naval Air Station Barbers Point.
The fires largely being set in a very specific area where HCDA plans a development project. Is this planned pyromania an HCDA development technique?
Houses painted with flames coming from windows, fires set all over the area in a firebug free-for-all... More and more holes hacked into the historic national register eligible home rooftops- but yet apparently "no one in authority" seems to notices anything unusual happening in "place of excellence" Kalaeloa...
The once beautiful, lush and shady tree canopied area of the former Naval Air Station where WW-II era homes were supposed to be preserved and placed on the National Historic register in is now being turned into a zombie like "Homes of Horrors' setting.
Yet one strange anomaly exists- a single two star flag officer home remains, well kept, well maintained, green mowed grass, big shady trees, trimmed hedges. Yet, the person living there doesn't seem to notice anything usual happening all around the house.
Around this oasis of a once proud and beautiful neighborhood is now a bizarre ghost house community of zombie homes, being grafittied and hacked up- not by thugs and vandals, but apparently as a "fire training seminar" project by a Florida company, according to the Honolulu Fire Department, which claims they have no involvement in it.
HCDA, the state's "development authority" apparently approves of this form of historic property destruction because it has failed to protect these homes which were recognized as historic during the original Navy BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) process and also by City contracted architectural consultants when the City planned the Honolulu rail fixed guideway corridor through this same area.
These Federal documents and the SHPD historic homes site number are all being "conveniently" ignored, why?
The red stripe is the planned HCDA roadway and the blue stripe is route of the planned rail transit fixed guideway. It is a remarkable coincidence that the vast majority of all of the fires being set in Kalaeloa are all within this same planned road and rail project route.
Obviously HCDA and SHPD, the state "preservation department" wants this once beautiful shady area, location of some of the largest trees on the former Naval Air Station to just "disappear," and "go away" and to do that requires the process of constant decimation and degradation so that the "historic integrity" is lost.
Big shade trees and historic homes? We don't see no big stinking shade trees and historic homes! They must of all "burn up" and "gone away" one day...
Decimation and degradation by developers usually takes some time so that most don't notice what is really happening- but when developers are in a big hurry they will find ways to accelerate the loss of "historic integrity and community value" -and the nearly constant fires, nearly all during working hours, seems apparently to be the way to do it in Kalaeloa, the "place of excellence".
The very large canopy trees are also mysteriously dying from some type of "Agent Orange Disease" in this same area where the firebug torching is going on.
And to make sure they burn and die faster, the defoliating trees are being torched by firebugs repeatedly as part of "fire training" also?
This is really all about turning a previously historic community with beautiful, large Monkey Pod and Banyan Trees into a slum-like "eye-sore" that soon "must be knocked down"...
It's being done in other areas as well to Hawaiian cultural sites, trails, ponds within Kalaeloa while HCDA takes the news media and politicians down to the "Kalaeloa Heritage Park" for preservation "photo opportunities..."
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