Mayor Kirk Caldwell DID appoint the current Director of DPP. It is you who are mistaken...(See proof from http://www.bizjournals.com below). And it has been a 'damn the rules' to get developments done over the public interest since!  
     And why is a lifelong Democrat mayor trying to allow the Republican dominated HRI developer to build a whole NEW CITY of nearly all Republicans on Gunstock Ranch's scarce rural state Ag land  in Malaekahana?  HRI is the development arm of special interest group LDS-Mormon church.  The Public Advisory Committee (PAC), vetted and approved by the DPP for 2005 update, worked on the Ko'olauloa Sustainable Communities Plan (KLSCP) until 2009 when their final plan "at no time included any development on Gunstock Ranch."   
      Land-use politics in the Laie/HRI dominated Ko'olauloa area have long vexed all other affected communities along this irreplaceable Haleiwa to Kahalu'u coastline and its eroding single two lane access road. No more traffic, no city!