And so it begins: the degradation of another “undiscovered-new, up-and-coming” place to begin its homogenization into something found everywhere else. Instead of an authentic, self-contained (insofar as retail, medical, and personal services) west-Oahu community, the article presents a window into an up-and-coming low-wage tourism transformation and real-estate development boom sure to supplant the working-folks community surviving on the last remaining “affordable” portion of the island.
Following that, surrender of the farmlands, which started it all, to the over-development of cookie-cutter suburbia. 
Our only hope? Continued traffic snarl on the community's only way in and out: Farrington Hwy. 
Oh what a wonderful conundrum to be a resident of the Waianae Coast!