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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – City park officials are revising plans for Oahu\u2019s first public Japanese archery range after Kaimuki residents rallied against it.<\/p>\n

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The roughly $1 million kyudojo would have sat on about half an acre of Mau\u2018umae Nature Park.<\/p>\n

But on Tuesday, city officials announced they are seeking a new site.<\/p>\n

In a press release, the city said, \u201cThough the effort received support from the area\u2019s Neighborhood Board, additional public sentiment against the project and developing site conditions played a role in the decision to forgo Mau\u2018umae as a location of the kyudojo.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Neighbors expressed resistance to the range since the city announced the public-private partnership with the Hawaii Kyudo Foundation last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see a great benefit of taking away the minimal green space that is accessible to people and putting more concrete over that space,\u201d said Kaui Lopes, who grew up across the street from the park.<\/p>\n

Critics feared for their safety, saying they lacked confidence in a plan for 8 to 10 ft. netting around the kyudojo. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow impactful are these netting that is going to help, supposed to deter the arrows from getting into the spaces, the public spaces that people are utilizing?\u201d Lopes questioned. <\/p>\n

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Bob Dewitz of the Hawaii Kyudo Foundation said, \u201cOur facility was engineered with permanent barriers erected that would preclude arrows from leaving the archery range at all. So that\u2019s been a hard issue to get people to understand. So we\u2019re just going to keep repeating that until hopefully we can convey that message because we\u2019re concerned about safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

With safety in mind, the Hawaii Kyudo Foundation will still use the same design in its partnership with the city. <\/p>\n

Dewitz said he hopes the project can get another shot at a central location \u201cso it\u2019s convenient for the folks from the windward side, from the west side and from the east side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any altered details of the kyudojo plan, as well as possible new locations, are still in the works.<\/p>\n

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Wherever the kyudojo ends up, the Hawaii Kyudo Foundation plans to build and help maintain the city-owned facility.<\/p>\n

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