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David Shapiro: OHA too quick to reject latest ceded-lands proposal

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / JAN. 18
                                House Speaker Scott Saiki offered OHA $100 million in cash, $65 million in improvements to its Fisherman’s Wharf property and a boost to $25 million from $21.5 million in annual state allotments — with inflation escalators — in exchange for dropping futile plans for high-rise residential development of its Kakaako Makai properties.

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / JAN. 18

House Speaker Scott Saiki offered OHA $100 million in cash, $65 million in improvements to its Fisherman’s Wharf property and a boost to $25 million from $21.5 million in annual state allotments — with inflation escalators — in exchange for dropping futile plans for high-rise residential development of its Kakaako Makai properties.