COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF MAUI AGENDA Regular Meeting of August 5, 2011 9:00 a.m. Council Chamber 8th Floor, Kalana 0 Maui Building200 South High Street, Wailuku, Hawaii http://www.co.maui.hi.us/archives/117/110805.pdf
Landuse Com. Turns Down Kaufman Up Zoning
Today the Land Use Committee decided not to consider the request by a Makena land owner to amend the State Land Use District Classification of 2.79 acres of land across the street from Oneloa Beach (Big Beach) from Agricultural to Urban. Instead the Committee voted in favor of a resolution to send this item back […]
Maui Hi-Tech Park: Shopping Mall?
Maui R&T Partners Inc., a joint venture of Pacific Rim Land and Woodbridge Capital who are closely associated with Goodfellow Brothers, whose retired chief, Steve Goodfellow, helped create the R&T park, have switched their emphasis to smaller lots, including residential development and some retail on the Research and Technology Park land. We previously erroneously reported […]
Haleakala Super (Ret): Telescope Will Have Negative Impacts
As the contested case for the Haleakala Telescope wraps up, Don Reeser, the retired superintendent of Haleakala National Park, testified that the proposed solar telescope would negatively impact the nearby park with noise and a big telescope building, and it would degrade the preservation of Native Hawaiian traditional and cultural practices. Kilakila attorney David Kimo […]
Kanaha Medical Plaza: Wrong Size. Wrong Place
There’s a large project coming to Central Maui that you may be unaware of. The Maui Medical Plaza at Kanaha, a planned six story building with a five story (300+ car parking garage) on the edge of Kanaha wetlands (in a tsunami and sea level rise zone) has somehow managed to stay under much of […]
Haleakala Telescope Contested Case
Questioning probes impacts of telescope July 19, 2011 By HARRY EAGAR – Staff Writer (heagar@mauinews.com) , The Maui News WAILUKU – The grilling of experts about the impact of the Advanced Solar Telescope on Haleakala began Monday and is expected to last through Wednesday. Attorney James Kimo Frankel attempted to get project manager Craig Foltz […]