Draft Honolulu City Council on April 29, 2009 and Resolution 2016-16 - - PDF document

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• Makalapa

• Lelepaua

• Āhua

• Kahauiki

• Mokauea

• Niuhelewai

• Kūwili

• Holau

• Kuloloia

• Ka‘ākaukukui

• Kūkuluāe‘o

• Kalia

• Makalapa

• Lelepaua

• Āhua

• Kahauiki

• Mokauea

• Niuhelewai

• Kūwili

• Holau

• Kuloloia

• Ka‘ākaukukui

• Kūkuluāe‘o

• Kalia

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Resolution 2019-16 Relating to the Approval of Hawaiian Names for the Remaining Twelve Stations of the Honolulu Rail Transit Project

HART Board Meeting September 19, 2019

Purpose

• Honolulu City Council Resolution 09-158,

Urging the Administration to Recommend the Use of the Hawaiian language in the Naming of Transit Stations (April 2009)

• HART Board Resolution 2016-16,

Relating to the Hawaiian Station Naming Policy of HART (May 2016)

• HART Board Resolution 2018-1,

Relating to Approval of Hawaiian Names for the First Nine Stations of Honolulu Rail Transit Project (February 2018)

Mission Statement

The Hawaiian Station Naming Working Group will recommend appropriate Hawaiian place names for the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation’s 21 stations using diverse community knowledge, oral accounts, and written history to bring to light forgotten places names, historic events, and significant sites in Hawaiian culture which will shape our communities for generations to come.

Hawaiian Station Name Working Group

Hawaiian language experts, elders, community leaders, educators, and cultural practitioners help ensure culturally authentic and accurate information is considered in recommending a Hawaiian name for each station.

• Mahealani Cypher (Chair)

Cultural Practitioner

• Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu (Vice Chair)

Office of Hawaiian Affairs

• Shad Kane

Kalaeloa Heritage & Legacy Foundation

• Misty Kelaʻi

Office of Culture & Arts, City & County of Honolulu

• Keoni Kelekolio

Kamehameha Schools

Process

• Primary research sources

– Traditional Cultural Properties Study (Kumu Pono Associates) – Archaeological Inventory Surveys (Cultural Surveys Hawaii)

• Working Group Meetings (4)

– Three meetings held between 2018 and 2019 – Final meeting on July 8, 2019 to considered public comments

• Public Comment Period

– April 17, 2019 through May 16, 2019

Proposed Nā Inoa

Summary of Public Comments

From April 17, 2019 through May 16, 2019

• Over 1500 views on website

– Of the 34 individual comments received: 15 were supportive, 3 were not supportive, and 16 were neither supportive or unsupportive. – Of the supportive comments: restore Hawaiian names, honor Hawaiian culture that anchors folks to this place. – Of the unsupportive and neutral comments, the majority of the comments were related to wayfinding concerns (i.e., need for familiar names, names that are easy to remember and pronounce, tools and ability to navigate their destination).

Wayfinding

Multiple forms of information will help passengers to find their way.

Examples of Other Wayfinding Elements

Wayfinding Elsewhere

Adopted Station Names – West Side

• Kualaka‘i and the story of

Kauluakaha‘i represents travel, identity and new beginnings.

• Keone‘ae brings forth a forgotten

place name of the area.

• Honouliuli recognizes the

important historic events and significant sites of the ahupua‘a.

• Hō‘ae‘ae is an ahupua‘a often

forgotten and not readily heard.

• Pouhala historically is an

important fishpond and significant site.

• Hālaulani is a forgotten place

name with historic sites.

• Waiawa is an ahupua‘a with the

largest watershed on O‘ahu and filled with significant sites.

• Kalauao is an ahupua‘a and

largely a forgotten place name. It’s a place associated with historic events and sites.

• Hālawa is an ahupua‘a with

historic sites.

Proposed Station Names Airport/Kalihi

• Makalapa is an ancient name

from the area.

• Lelepaua describes the bivalve

and is also the name of a vast salt making pond that used to encompass over 300 acres.

• Āhua is a fishpond and coastal
• region. It is also the name of a

former large reef that was dredged to create part of what is known today as Ke‘ehi Lagoon.

• Kahauiki is an ahupua‘a often

forgotten and not readily heard

• Mokauea is the largest of several

small islands off the coast of Kalihi ahupua‘a and a living cultural asset.

• Niuhelewai is identified as a place
• f residence of the goddess,

Haumea, and considered by her to be sacred. It is also the site of a famed battle between forces of O‘ahu and Maui.

Proposed Station Names Iwilei/Downtown/Kaka‘ako

• Kūwili is a land area and large

fishpond that the station also sits in the footprint of.

• Holau was the first Hawaiian

market owned and operated by a Hawaiian family in what is known today as Chinatown.

• Kuloloia is a forgotten place

name that was once a beautiful sandy beach on the shore of Kou.

• Ka‘ākaukukui is coastal land east
• f Waikahalulu, and a forgotten

place name.

• Kūkuluāe‘o is a near shore land

area in the Kākā‘ako vicinity and a forgotten place name.

• Kalia is an area once known for its

fishpond and salt making.

Nā Inoa

Mahalo Me Ke Aloha

“…when all else is lost, it is enough to speak the names and pass on the knowledge of place…”

• -Traditional Cultural Properties Study, Kumu Pono Associates

http://honolulutransit.org/media-center/planning/528-hawaiian-names

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The station names refmect forgotten place names, historic events, and signifcant sites in Hawaiian culture. Pursuant to Honolulu City Council Resolution 09-158, an expert working group reviewed community knowledge, ethnographic research, and oral accounts to develop culturally authentic and accurate station

• names. These station names will perpetuate the

traditions, culture, and history of Hawai‘i and help knit the rail system into the fabric of O‘ahu.

• flats. Today, it’s an area used for

• ver 300 acres, built by Ka‘ihikapu

• It is also the name of a former large

• men. The station also sits in the footprint of

• fishpond in Honolulu ahupua‘a in

• first Hawaiian market owned and
• perated by a Hawaiian family in

• Waikahalulu, and adjoining
• by fishponds and salt works.
• (Waited for)

• numerous salt works and fishponds.
• (ridge face/front - descriptive of the
• uter crater walls)
• used to make fishing lures and hooks)
• (a hillock or mound)
• (The Hawaiian stilt)

• tionally a detached parcel belonging
• was also known for salt making.

• (the little hau/hibiscus tree)
• (ancient place name - meaning

• (coconut going/carried on water)
• Kuloloia was once a beautiful sandy

• Ke‘eaumoku, and mother of

• shore of Kuloloia, and a younger

• (also written Kuloloio is an ancient

• from market)
• (The north / right light)

• Community College