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"The circumstances, I thought, were unique and could not be replicated again," Sullivan told the City Council's Executive Affairs Committee yesterday.
The committee approved her nomination as land use director by a 4-1 vote, despite three hours of sometimes pointed questioning.
Councilwoman Donna Mercado Kim was opposed.
Chief Engineer-designate Jonathan Shimada skated by with a 3-2 approval. Kim and Councilman Duke Bainum were opposed. Both nominations are slated for a final vote March 12.
Because of zoning restrictions, the Haleiwa McDonald's needed a variance to provide drive-through service.
The restaurant's owner was told by planners that it would be allowed to seek a drive-through variance after the creation of a Haleiwa bypass road, finished last year.
Kim, who heads the Zoning Committee, said Sullivan's decision was wrong because the owner could not reasonably argue financial hardship.
Sullivan was grilled for more than three hours, primarily from Kim.
Kim ripped Sullivan for failing to disclose information on a trust entity set up for her children. The trust holds a 25 percent interest in 127 units of a Waikiki condominium.
She said she did not know that her role in the trust needed to be reported.
Critics said Sullivan has represented a number of major development interests.
A tour helicopter pilot reported a lava lake inside Puu Oo at 7:40 a.m., the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.
A geologist flying over later in the morning put the depth at more than 600 feet below the rim of the cone.
But the lava didn't rise high enough to spill over into the subsurface tube system that carried lava to the sea much of the time for the past several years.
That steady pattern of tube flows was interrupted Jan. 30 with the collapse of the highest point on Puu Oo's rim, the withdrawal of lava from the vent, and the breakout of lines of lava fountains up to 50 feet high two miles upslope at Napau Crater.
Only two campers at remote Napau saw the outbreak of activity before they were flown to safety by the county rescue helicopter. The eruption shut off on Jan. 31.
The census will take place from 9 a.m. to noon at 23 sites from Makapuu to Kaena Point.
It is being taken to help determine the number and movement of whales wintering near Oahu compared with the other islands of Hawaii.
Participants must attend a meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Room 101 of the McNeil Building on the Punahou School campus. For information, call 541-3184.
Youth for Environmental Service is part of the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College.
The victim, a 22-year-old man, had just finished dinner at the New Golden Chinese Restaurant at 426 Uluniu St. and was getting on his motorcycle when he was approached by a man who asked him, "What's up?"
When the motorcyclist replied, "Nothing," he was tackled from behind by another man who went through his pockets, police said.
The men also removed his helmet and beat him with it before fleeing, police said.
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