Leading the charge for change are the island's 'wahine,' or women.
Seven months after deadly wildfires destroyed Maui homes and left thousands of people displaced, its residents are still reeling from various issues from environmental concerns to affordable housing.The grandmother and environmentalist has taken issue against Maui County's decision to temporarily dump 400,000 cubic yards of toxic fire debris on a hillside in Olowalu.
"There's no structural guarantee that there is not going to be contamination into the ecosystem surrounding them, above, below, side to side," Martin said. A FEMA environmental and historical preservation specialist also conducted a review of the site. County officials added that environmental samples will be reported and made public every 90 days and their first report is expected on April 22.The county announced last week all of the toxic debris will be permanently moved from its temporary site in Olowalu to a central Maui landfill across town. Nearly 40,000 truckloads of debris will be transported, according to officials.
"We had this very, very real sense of foreboding for the possibility of these land grabs, of disaster capitalists that might try to come into Lahaina and take advantage of people that are in a really vulnerable positions," Auweloa told ABC News. "And we started to think about what might be possible, what could we put in place to help push back against that."
"We're talking about 99-year lease terms," she explained. "If selling has to be what they have to consider, we wanted to present an option where we could give them a fair market value for the property if they can't hold onto it and be able to hold it in trust for the community and the highest and best uses for the community.
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