Planning Director Will Spence said Thursday that the changes he’s proposing to the Maui Island Plan would simplify [it]… …A number of community advocates questioned Spence’s proposed changes, saying he was overriding years of work by groups like the General Plan Advisory Committee and Maui Planning Commission in creating the earlier draft. “It makes a […]
Lucienne De Naie Explains Maui Island Plan
…The council elected in 2008 took up the Maui Island Plan, but only got as far as Chapter 7 before their terms expired. Incoming General Plan Committee Chairwoman Gladys Baisa (her predecessor, Sol Kaho‘ohalahala, was turned out of office in 2010) decided to start over. As a result, the council’s General Plan Committee has finally […]
Friends of Lana’i Opposes Interisland Cable
As part of Maui Tomorrow’s mission to facilitate discussion and air all sides of the debate over Big Wind and the Interisland power cable, today we reprint a Viewpoint from Friends of Lana’i, a group opposed to the Big Wind project. This does not necessarily reflect the views of Maui Tomorrow which has taken no […]
Looting of the Seas
Looting the Seas is an award-winning project by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists looking at forces that are rapidly emptying oceans of fish. In its first installment ICIJ documented the massive black market in threatened bluefin tuna. In the second, it revealed that billions of dollars in subsidies flow into the Spanish fishing industry […]
Testimony on Interisland Electric Cable Due
SB 2785 (proposed undersea high voltage transmission cable) has a hearing on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 2:55 p.m. at the Capitol in Room 225. Easy to file Internet comments can be submitted at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/submittestimony.aspx Testimony can be uploaded at the same site. Hearing Notice SB 2785 The Committee on Energy and Environment (Chair Gabbard) […]
Council to Review MIP Growth Boundaries
The Maui County Council’s General Plan Committee will conduct an informational meeting on growth boundaries included in the draft Maui Island Plan on Feb. 2 at 1:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber