PROTECT MAUI FROM SUPERSTORES

Target:

Maui County Council

Sponsored by:

a coalition of small businesses and residents of Maui County

The Maui County Council is currently considering a bill prohibiting new or expanded Superstores on Maui.

These stores are an economic disaster most places, but in a place like Maui they are especially destructive to the economy, environment, infrastructure, and island way of life that makes Maui the paradise it is. Big-box stores would force more local businesses to close, and prevent others from opening. In these tough economic times we need to protect our people and businesses and find more sustainable ways to look at development, and there is nothing "Sustainable" about a Superstore.

We hope that all Maui residents, small business owners, and those who love Maui will sign our petition and let the Council know that they are in support of a BAN ON SUPERSTORES on Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.

The Council will be discussing and voting on this bill at their March 20th meeting. We do not have much time, so please:

1.........Sign our petition

2..........Write a comment for the Council in the "comment" section

3..........Copy the URL and send to friends and associates on Maui.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and for your concern for the issue. With your help we can Protect Maui from Superstores.

The Council will be discussing and voting on this bill at their March 20th meeting. We do not have much time, so please:

1.........Sign our petition

2..........Write a comment for the Council in the "comment" section

3..........Copy the URL and send to friends and associates on Maui.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and for your concern for the issue. With your help we can Protect Maui from Superstores.

      We the undersigned residents, small business owners, and lovers of Maui are very concerned about the effects any new or expanded Superstores will have on our local businesses, ohana, environment, traffic, and community.

      We know you are considering the passage of a prohibition on new Superstores and the expansion of current ones, and I just want to let you know that I support this ban, and hope you will do everything you can to enact it.

      These stores are harmful to our economy, environment and island way of life. We need to be focusing on development that is sustainable for the long-term, and I hope you will do everything you can to pass the bill banning them from our islands. We need you to protect our local business. We need you to approve the Ban on Superstores!

Your leadership on this issue has been impressive so far, and hope you will continue protecting Maui by passing this bill as soon as possible. There are a lot of us who need the help.

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We signed the "PROTECT MAUI FROM SUPERSTORES" petition!

# 523:

11:21 am PST, Nov 13, Paul Ruth, Hawaii
Please, no more box stores on Maui. Keep it rural and simple way of life.

# 522:

6:28 pm PST, Nov 12, Name not displayed, Hawaii
Please keep Maui the unique destination and cultural treat that it has been. Superstores are not part of that good feeling that makes Maui the #1 island in the world again with Conde Naste's survey. I ask that local culture and human scale businesses be supported. Superstores have no place on Maui, they are a detriment to quality island life. Thanks for listening. Melissa Verbena

# 521:

5:55 pm PST, Nov 12, Bonnie Marsh, Hawaii

# 520:

12:50 pm PST, Nov 12, Melvin Kahalehoe, Hawaii
They did it to Hawaii Kai, Oahu when Hawaii Kai was a farm land, they are doing it to Waianae, Oahu right now today as we speak. Dont let it happen to you Maui. Maui Nokaoi. Aloha, Bradda Mel:-)

# 519:

1:36 am PST, Nov 12, Kimberly Jaramillo, Hawaii
Save Maui!

# 518:

10:21 pm PST, Nov 11, Renette Carpio, Hawaii
Although I live on O'ahu now, I was born and raised on Maui and many of my family and friends still live on Maui. It is my hope that Maui doesn't develop to the level of O'ahu and it's urban sprawl. Keep Maui pa'a!

# 517:

10:38 pm PST, Nov 10, Garrett McMillan, Hawaii

# 516:

9:39 pm PST, Nov 10, Bella Rosa Resta, Hawaii
remember..........nagatas.....kitadas.......horiuchis

# 515:

1:03 pm PST, Nov 10, Susan Shackman, Illinois

# 514:

12:46 pm PST, Nov 10, David Leonard, Hawaii
Enough is enough! We need to look beyond our noses and quit searching for short term fixes.

# 513:

12:46 pm PST, Nov 10, Ray Levans, Hawaii

# 512:

11:40 am PST, Nov 10, Tobey Sison, Hawaii
The more development, the more trash we are going to have in our beaches. For most kikies, our beaches are sanctuary. A place away from drugs and violence. Aloha

# 511:

11:26 am PST, Nov 10, Kim Davis, New Zealand
no big box stores on Maui, support the small local stores that keep the $ in the community.

# 510:

10:34 am PST, Nov 10, Name not displayed, Hawaii

# 509:

6:05 am PST, Nov 10, Name not displayed, Hawaii
It is imperatively wrong to take away the spirit and revenues of mom & pop stores and homogenize the traditional, old style Hawaiian culture with Superstores that take away and transfer to the Mainland most of the revenues from the Maui-based Superstores.

# 508:

1:30 am PST, Nov 10, Megan Powers, Hawaii
no big box stores on Maui, support the small local stores that keep the $ in the community.

# 507:

10:01 am PST, Nov 9, Allie Ledesma, Hawaii

# 506:

12:06 pm PST, Nov 7, Eric Drissell, Montana

# 505:

9:15 pm PST, Nov 6, Jenny Wisemark-Cerro, Hawaii

# 504:

5:57 am PST, Nov 5, Lisa Payne, Hawaii
Keep Maui quaint, special and not like every other community on the mainland who's small business' have been desimated by the takeover of 'big box' stores...

# 503:

7:29 pm PST, Nov 4, MADELINE KROPITZ-SCHULTZE, Austria
Please add a comment and let the Council know how you feel! They want your input. i will do what i can, to save this wonderful island maui, nevertheless i live so far away.

# 502:

6:47 pm PST, Nov 4, Lee Jones, Arizona
Large corporations will never have enough of your money. Allow them into your neighborhood, and most or all your local business owner friends will soon be out of business. We should be allowed to create our OWN jobs, and not depend on huge, greedy corporations for our living.

# 501:

6:46 pm PST, Nov 4, Shannon Enns, Hawaii
I've moved off island to Kaua'i due to all the over building. Maui was once beautiful and we need to protect this. Keep the country country!!!

# 500:

11:36 am PST, Nov 4, Marisela Bracho, Hawaii

# 499:

1:57 am PST, Nov 4, Alana Mansfield, Hawaii
I firmly believe maui should stay as green as possible. Leave it the way is.

# 498:

8:28 pm PST, Nov 3, Genevieve Hansen, Minnesota
its about scale ,it is easy math , i live on Maui currently working on mainland for 1 year ,i dont want to go home to even more big growth and seeing small guys fall ,the small guy whom hugley and deeply care about the aina and people who are the community.

# 497:

2:59 pm PST, Nov 3, Rodrigo Herrera jr., Philippines
Let the other small business enterprises build they're own.. And dont forget to help them.. Assuring there security and business for the future of the other's

# 496:

3:17 am PST, Nov 3, Peter Streibhardt, Germany
When visiting Maui, as a European, I was happy that one thing that many Europeans consider to be typical for people from the US was not so deeply present on Hawaii: super shopping; I mean, experiencing shopping as an event. Super Stores are the most unpersonal, pushy, non-relaxing experience I can imagine. The second one is driving for hours in a car through a beautiful landscape. Both, super shopping and boring car driving are more and more flooding the islands of Hawaii. They steal the experience of beautiful nature and meeting the wonderful people living there and transform the once in a lifetime stay of tourists on Maui, Big Island, Oahu, etc. into a replacable consumer experience that one can have everywhere. I wish this initiative to be successful in preventing new big box stores on Maui, as well as I hope that wonderful natural places remain save from large industrial buildings, including big hotels, which in my eyes are the industrialisation of tourism. Good Luck from Germany, Peter.

# 495:

7:02 pm PST, Nov 2, Jerzy Kokurewicz, Hawaii
I don't buy the short term imagined benefits of this kind of development. There is a time to say ' 'Nuff already!' and this is the time.

# 494:

6:45 pm PST, Nov 2, Penelope Baggs, Hawaii
Keep maui, maui.

# 493:

6:35 pm PST, Nov 2, Valerie Cartwright, Hawaii

# 492:

6:11 pm PST, Nov 2, Name not displayed, Hawaii

# 491:

5:45 pm PST, Nov 2, Katherine Gibbel, Missouri
I use to live in Maui for 16 years.I wish i was there again but have other things i have to attend to here .But good luck hope you get enough signatures.

# 490:

5:23 pm PST, Nov 2, Linda Nathanson, North Carolina
Please keep Maui beautiful, exotic, and home to rare endangered species. Stop making it like the mainland. It doesn't need big box stores. Keep the uniqueness and the money will still come. Destroy it and you destroy people's reason to visit.

# 489:

9:41 am PDT, Oct 30, Debbie Cheeseman, United Kingdom

# 488:

1:45 am PDT, Oct 28, Andrea Walls, Hawaii

# 487:

5:33 pm PDT, Oct 27, Erin Brittin, Hawaii
I am a owner of a small store on Maui and I would hate to see shops like mine fail because of big box stores.

# 486:

5:22 pm PDT, Oct 27, Ashley Ann Bruce, Arizona
Hawaii is one of the few places left that still retains a morsel of spirituality, please don't ruin the remaining greatness!

# 485:

4:19 pm PDT, Oct 27, Name not displayed, Hawaii

# 484:

1:46 pm PDT, Oct 27, Lydia Schultz, Colorado
I lived in Hawaii for a year, now that I am in school I can't be there, but I want to protect what I love about the Aina......and it ain't the Kahalui walmart. Thanks for providing this site so I can participate in protecting the island I love from afar.

# 483:

11:08 am PDT, Oct 27, Chris Joseph, Hawaii

# 482:

10:02 am PDT, Oct 27, Krystal Cunningham, Hawaii
Have we not learned from Oahu? Do we really need more buildings/expensive homes etc. I believe we should focus more in becoming a STATE that leads by example what it is to be a SELF SUSTAINED STATE. We could really pave the way....

# 481:

8:33 am PDT, Oct 27, Friar Frnk Canizares, Illinois

# 480:

8:28 am PDT, Oct 27, JANICE SHIMIZU, Hawaii

# 479:

7:53 am PDT, Oct 27, Christine Miller, California
I lived on the island of Maui for 18 years. While I was there, there were many new sub-divisions, stores, and shopping centers constructed on the island. This boom in construction is taking away from the beauty of the island. Hawaii, and Maui County does not need more stores, what it truly needs is to be preserved, and respected. Please keep Hawaii beautiful. Please stop building. Mahalo nui loa,

# 478:

7:48 am PDT, Oct 27, Tiffany F, Colorado
KEEP MAUI BEAUTIFUL!

# 477:

6:15 am PDT, Oct 27, Leslie Dines Francis, Texas

# 476:

1:30 am PDT, Oct 27, Carrie Haas, Hawaii

# 475:

4:35 pm PDT, Oct 26, Jessica Simas, Rhode Island

# 474:

10:16 am PDT, Oct 25, Carole Hagen, Oregon

# 473:

2:54 am PDT, Oct 24, Perisse Stephan, France

# 472:

2:17 pm PDT, Oct 23, Brett Cannon, Australia
don't lose what you aready have.use you heart not your wallet!

# 471:

1:35 pm PDT, Oct 23, Uilani Kaalakea, Hawaii
You guys are wonderful people to want to help keep our islands beautiful.

# 470:

12:07 pm PDT, Oct 23, Rebecca Kiili, Hawaii
Keep Maui no ka 'oi!

# 469:

10:45 am PDT, Oct 23, Name not displayed, California

# 468:

7:30 am PDT, Oct 23, Stephen Sabo, Florida

# 467:

1:29 am PDT, Oct 23, Crystal Barron, Hawaii
Please keep the islands local. That is what people come here to experience anyways. If they wanted to visit large corporate stores they should stay home on the mainland.

# 466:

11:16 pm PDT, Oct 22, Angela Thielk, Hawaii

# 465:

10:44 pm PDT, Oct 22, Keana Varner, Hawaii

# 464:

10:31 pm PDT, Oct 22, Naomi Wick, California

# 463:

10:25 pm PDT, Oct 22, Jorge De oliveira junior, Brazil

# 462:

2:46 pm PDT, Oct 22, Tory Washford, Hawaii

# 461:

2:56 pm PDT, Oct 20, Raimanutea LAUGHLIN, Hawaii
preserve Hawaii!!!!

# 460:

1:07 pm PDT, Oct 20, Keola Kalawaia, Hawaii
One Honolulu is enough!

# 459:

10:56 am PDT, Oct 20, Name not displayed, Hawaii

# 458:

3:15 am PDT, Oct 20, Star Nisa, Hawaii

# 457:

12:16 am PDT, Oct 20, Jeff Wayman, Hawaii
it seems it's simply a question of $ profit vs. social profit.

# 456:

11:28 pm PDT, Oct 19, ROSEMARIE KIMBRELL, Pennsylvania

# 455:

11:08 pm PDT, Oct 19, Name not displayed, Hawaii

# 454:

11:04 pm PDT, Oct 19, Bruce McGonigal, Hawaii
Keep Maui .... Maui !!! They don't need the big jerky stores there !!! Why put the little guys out of bussiness ??? So sad to hear this !!! :(

# 453:

10:37 pm PDT, Oct 19, James Ashford, New Mexico

# 452:

4:29 am PDT, Oct 18, Ian Ratcliffe, North Carolina

# 451:

12:17 pm PDT, Oct 17, Jonathan Drechsler, Hawaii
Maui already has more than enough huge stores selling primarily Chinese-made merchandise.

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