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February 28, 2008
SOMETHING TO BRAGG ABOUT
With reference to a letter to the editor from [Patricia Bragg's] attorney Brian Jenkins (Letters, Feb. 21, 2008), let's not forget to look at this with common sense!
If the intention was to protect this land from subdivision, then why bother to apply for water rights for the individual lots at all? Seems to me that Bragg's lawyer is admitting the very thing he denies, regardless of the validity of the water rights issue. What does is matter to preserve so called water rights on parcels that are not supposed to be separate lots ever again?
Land that touches a stream has water rights, and that cannot be taken away. Well then, this big parcel has water rights already from the stream that runs through it. But if it is divided up, the "new" lots that do not touch the stream now will not have water rights at all. So it seems to me that these so-called separate lot determinations would end up damaging the water rights to the parcels no longer touching the stream while doing nothing to protect this land from development.
According to tax records, Bragg has owned this land since 2002. If it was her intention to protect this land from development, then why did she fail to put it into a protective trust a long time ago? You can call chopping up this piece of land what you want, but it still looks liked subdivision to me.
-Iser Grimberg, via email
The Editor responds: Check out this week's cover story "In the Name of the 'Father'" on pg. 12 for more on Bragg and her Waiehu property.
GIVE US ACCESS!
(The following letters are in response to our Feb. 21, 2008 cover story "Line in the Sand")
Who can I (all surfers who care) write a letter to, to put some pressure on the county people? If we all make an effort to phone or write a letter maybe they will see that shoreline access is extremely important to us!
-Vince Calkins, via Mauitime.com
We really need to keep pressuring the county on this one, or we'll end up like a lot of places in America where you can't set foot on any private land, including [beaches]. Many of the people buying these places come from areas where they own everything but the water and nobody is allowed even on the beach.
Access sites are very limited because they don't want "trespassers" on "their" beach. Believe me, they like it that way and would love nothing more than to have the same thing here.
-Jennifer Welch, via Mauitime.com
Thanks for the article "Line In The Sand." Just thought that a verse from Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Our Land" would be fitting: "As I went walking I saw a sign there/And on the sign it said 'No Trespassing.' /But on the other side it didn't say nothing,/That side was made for you and me."
-George Chyz, via Mauitime.com
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