The story is told, above, strictly from the white North Shore well to do settlers point of view and omits the rest of the story, which is the story of their racist opposition of native Hawaiians having their own Indian commerce along the 7 miles these white racists consider their territory now. This racism is evident in the statement of Gil "appropriate for the community". He means appropriate for the white California settler well off community which wants no non white native in its neighborhood. The actual commerce of the north shore is the illegal drug business that was started by Cali surfer dudes back in the sixties. Now it is supplemented by vacation rentals in the properties they purchased using drug money. This traffic and environmental stuff is bogus. How about the city rooting out the drug economy as a first thing first. How about Gil making a statement that the HPD needs to shut down the drug industry first before issuing permits of any kind to anyone.