Newswatch
By Star-Bulletin Staff
Monday, October 14, 1996
But members of a Maui coalition want all or most of the 96 acres to remain in open space.
Conflict is growing between Amfac and open-space advocates as the number of residents and visitors increase in west Maui, where there are more than 100 hotels and resort condominiums.
The coalition is planning a demonstration next week on the highway fronting North Beach.
Meanwhile, Amfac is preparing an environmental impact statement for the timeshare project, which is to occupy 14 of the 96 acres.
The company is holding a public meeting tomorrow to find out what people want included in the environmental report. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the Lahaina Intermediate School cafeteria.
North Beach has been zoned for resort use, but while undeveloped, the beach has been used by the public.
The entire state has been awash in hot, sunny weather.
"The drought has been mainly where you have the big mountains like Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa and Haleakala," said National Weather Service lead forecaster Hans Rosendal.
"We haven't had the normal trade wind showers come in on the windward sides for the past month."
Which has officials on Maui and the Big Island hoping for rain and preparing for the worst.
On the valley isle, Upcountry residents have been ordered to reduce their water use by 10 percent.
On the Big Island, authorities are poised to ban outdoor barbecues and rubbish burns. Commercial water haulers there are working overtime to keep up with the catchment needs of parched rural residents. Up to 7,000 homes on the Big Island rely on rainfall catchment systems for their water needs.
"In any case, it's clearly an unavoidable tragic accident," Schutter today said of the death of his grandson, Bronson Schutter.
Police said the Honolulu boy was killed after being struck by a truck driven by his mother. They said the boy left his child-restraint seat and got out of his mother's vehicle as she waited for a sliding electric gate to open at Schutter's Diamond Head residence at 3060 Noela St.
He was pronounced dead at Queen's Hospital at 11:45 p.m. The case is classified as a negligent homicide nontraffic fatality since it occurred on private property. There is no apparent evidence of felony gross negligence, said police, declining to release the mother's name.
The three victims were getting out of their car in the parking lot of Kirin Restaurant at 2518 S. Beretania St. shortly after 11 p.m. when the suspects attacked, threatened and robbed them, police said.
The three male visitors, all in their 20s, sustained minor injuries.
The suspects, who fled in a brown Dodge minivan, made off with travelers checks, credit cars and $50 cash.
The first suspect is described as a Polynesian in his 20s, 6 feet, 300 pounds and wearing a black T-shirt, dark shorts and a black baseball cap.
The second is described as a Polynesian in his 20s, 6 feet, 180 pounds, with a muscular build and wearing a long-sleeve red and white checkered shirt, light blue jeans and a white baseball cap.
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