Topic: Wahikuli and Honokowai updates on coral reef research & watershed management efforts Presenters: Kathy Chaston, NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program & Tova Callender, West Maui Watershed and Coastal Management Coordinator Date: Tuesday, Nov.27, 6-8pm Location: Na Aikane Cultural Center, Front St. Lahaina (Maulu’ulu’olele Park across of Tennis Court along Front Street) […]
Megamall Hearing: Evidence Finished
[Dick] Mayer characterized light industrial use as one that would provide full-time, well-paid jobs to local residents and ownership opportunities to local businesses. Retail use, he said, might provide many jobs, but they would be low-wage positions that were likely to be part-time and provide few benefits to employees. He also claimed that monies generated by the shopping centers would mostly benefit off-island owners and that an influx of big-box tenants would be detrimental to the existing locally owned small businesses in Kihei.
State Official: [megamall] “Plan clearly different”
A state Office of Planning official said that developers of two large retail centers and 250 affordable housing units in Kihei should have filed a motion with the state Land Use Commission to amend conditions placed on the parcel that was initially proposed as a light industrial park. “This is a clearly different project than […]
Auwahi Wind Farm Transmission Line Going In
A photo well worth viewing at Maui News
Maui County: RFP for Waste to Energy at Pu’unene Landfill
Maui County is looking for a developer to finance, plan, design, permit, construct and own a waste-to-energy project at the Central Maui Landfill in Puunene, the biggest of four county-run landfills on the Valley Isle. The plan would include diverting nearly 500 tons of waste from the county landfill and turning it into energy that […]
Testify: Put Green Areas Back into Maui Island Plan
Subject: Take Makena 390 acres Urban back out of the plan & Put Back In the Green Areas Message: Makena Resort – 390 more acres of development? Not Needed, Not Wanted, Not Deserved! Green areas, parks, preservation turned into nonbinding diagrams? Maui Island Plan has turned into a Growth Plan not a Green Plan Who […]