There is a new opportunity this Friday to provide public input about the Maui Water Use Development Plan. The Maui County Council vote on the Maui Water Use & Development Plan (WUDP) was postponed from Sept 11th to Oct 9th, and Haiku Community Association held a Town Hall on the WUDP on Sept 24. At […]
Grow Maui Jobs in Agriculture and Housing Construction: Maui Tomorrow Supports Two Charter Amendments
Maui’s economy needs to be diversified! For decades, we have been placing more and more of our eggs in one basket. In the 1960s and 1970s, the visitor industry was helpful in countering the decline of Maui’s agricultural industry. However, as tourism kept growing, with no end in sight, it began to overwhelm our residents […]
North Shore Citizens Feel Left out of Maui Water Use and Development Plan Decisions
Maui’s Water Use and Development Plan (WUDP) is 1,200 pages long, 20 years overdue and has been read by very few. It’s hard to see specific plans in the bulky WUDP document, but the message is there in the text and charts: ‘Iao aquifer (Wailuku-Waiheʻe) supplies 60% of County water customers and it’s nearly maxed […]
Hotel Wailuku Project is On Hold
Mahalo to everyone who submitted comments on the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed Hotel Wailuku. We have now heard that the developer has put this project on hold (although it could come back at any time). The proposed 6-story, 156-room hotel would be built on the corner of Main and Market streets, and […]
Ha‘ikū and Pā‘ia Residents Ask to Be Heard Before County Council Votes on Maui Island Water Plan
A special meeting of Board of Water Supply (BWS) was held this week, at which Ha‘ikū and Pā‘ia residents complained that they haven’t been consulted on the Maui Island Water Use and Development Plan (WUDP) that includes a “strategy” to drill deep wells in the Ha‘ikū aquifer. The wells would send millions of gallons of […]
Community Plan Revisions are Underway in West and South Maui
The West Maui Community Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC) met for many months in 2019, and worked very hard to update the plan to reflect the community’s desire to prioritize truly affordable housing while preventing sprawl and overdevelopment of the visitor industry. In particular, much effort was put into making the wording of the plan unambiguous […]