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Do you live in the bay area? “T.T not enough housing!”, except traffic is out of control and we’re just building more massive apartment buildings along every inch of freeway we can. No one seems to be making any plan with anything close to a spec or goal.

The reality is that not everyone can live here. Should we cut down all the trees and cover Kauai in skyscraper apartments so more people can live there?

I don’t think so.

Even this project is kicking the can (eventually Corusucant). But at least they aren’t coming into someone’s community, that THEY PICKED because of the way it is, and saying oh no no, we need to build an ADU and multi family dwellings everywhere!

Go start something new.

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If only there were some sort of solution to cars clogging the road. Instead of one person in one car, we could (somehow, I haven't solved this part of the problem yet) have multiple people in a single, larger vehicle, and that single vehicle could go nearby to the places people need to go to, and they could walk from there to their destination. It's totally radical, I know, and could never work, definitely wouldn't be working in many other places in the world. I'm not sure what we'd call this transportation option, but I'd have it open to the public so that everyone could use this to get around the city. Note that it needs to be a city to have the density to support such a "transportation for the public" option, which involves, you guessed it, building denser housing.

You're certainly entitled to your own opinion on the future of Kauai, but that very attitude is what's lead to San Francisco's current day problems.

The island of Lanai may never get developed. Thats the only way to preserve things how you want. Otherwise other people's opinions, in places of power, get what they want, regardless of what your want. Just look across the water to Honolulu, which is rife with skyscrapers.

Sadly, the Kauai from years past is already gone. Rose tinted glasses are nice to look at the past with, but amonst the extraordinary natural beauty, modern day Kauai has the same problems as everywhere else. Meth, fentanyl, and a lack of jobs.

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