State Land Use Commission members reversed themselves Thursday, unanimously approving a state land-use reclassification from agricultural to urban for the 68-lot Kahoma affordable housing project. The commission members’ action came after they agreed last month to reconsider their Dec. 5 vote. In that vote, developer West Maui Land Co. received four votes in favor of […]
Enforcing Planning Rules
Fighting for sensible development
Maui Weekly: Developer History
March 7, 2013 Maui Weekly http://www.mauiweekly.com/page/content.detail/id/511012/Connect-the-Dots.html?nav=13 Connect the Dots Real estate, construction, politics and the development of Maui Susan Halas – Senior Contributing Writer , The Maui Weekly “In the years following WWII, Maui steadily lost population. But by the late 1960s, with the coming of jet airlines, the Valley Isle began to evolve as […]
LUC Decision Against Megamall
Statement by Mark Hyde: Today the state Land Use Commission, by a vote of 6-3, found Pi’ilani Promenade North (the shopping mall), Pi’ilani South (the shopping center) and Honua’ula/Wailea 670 in violation of the LUC’s 1995 order. In particular, the LUC found violations of Condition 5 (provide a frontage and connector roads), Condition 15 (develop the property […]
LUC Rules MegaMall Out of Compliance.
Today the Land Use Commission (LUC) met on Maui to hear the last arguments over whether the Pi’ilani Promenade conforms with the original light industrial development that was the reason the zoning change from Agricultural to Light Industrial was allowed. The LUC in a 6-3 vote, rendered an opinion that, no, the megamall was not […]
Submit Testimony on PLDC Bill
From Henry Curtis: Submit testimony on-line at: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/submittestimony.aspx The PLDC must be repealed before we consider other legislation COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION Rep. Ryan I. Yamane, Chair Rep. Linda Ichiyama, Vice Chair NOTICE OF HEARINGDATE: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 TIME: 10:00am PLACE: Conference Room 309, State Capitol “Creating a development arm of the department of land […]