You keep talking about urban core,  yet the land Hoopili is to be built on was zoned agriculture and it took rail and a whole lot of false statements to get it changes to residential.   And whether people like the guy by the name of Tom Berg,  he had many facts that back up his claims,  along with Dr.  Keoni Dudly,  who also had many facts to back up his claims.   Sad truth is big money will always win out over the average resident.  
I honestly hope you're still around when this mess of a rail project start running so I can personally throw it in your face on how much of a failure it is on ridership,  traffic relief,  and how it'll become the one of the reasons that causes property taxes  to raise to double digits.