text: anthony aalto, You said that you once advocated to increase density in the Primary Urban Center in order to increase the supply of housing and to limit development to urban areas.  That is far more preferable than advocating for rail, hoping for affordable housing along the rail line.  Rail has been used to justify Hoopili, which will be built on the "best agricultural land in the state," which is how I think you put it.  Rail is already responsible for causing future urban sprawl.  It won't preserve the country.
  You are opposed to making traffic worse.  Yet that is what the development along the rail line will do.  It won't be contained in the Primary Urban Center, but will extend the entire length of rail.  The first special district along the rail line is being planned for Waipahu.  Some of the new residents in that special district will take rail to work in town, but many more will take their cars.