The facts are clear:  the current Administration supports all development and sprawl - town or country.  The current Administration lets rural parks decay and supports attempts to commercialize and develop public parks for private profit.  Interestingly, there's always been a broad array of support for voluntary land conservation efforts such as Turtle Bay (however, you should know that when the current Mayor was Majority Leader in the State House he publicly scoffed at the community's vision for Turtle Bay when Governor Lingle first announced the conservation effort).  In addition, you may want to ask yourself why the current Mayor didn't release funds for conservation efforts at Kahuku and for other widely supported community improvement projects such as the Canoe Halau at Haleiwa Beach Park.  People in the community know these things and are exasperated.  I'm not sure how the overdevelopment in Kakaako and innumerable luxury units help rural areas, but that is an intriguing theory!