General Plan Committee Meeting Council Chambers, 8th Floor 200 S. High St., Wailuku Thursday 1:30pm until 4:30pm The General Plan Committee is currently reviewing and making decisions on THE MOST CRITICAL chapter of the Maui Island Plan (Directed Growth Plan, Chapter 8). The Direct Growth Plan chapter sets policy on managing Maui’s growth and development […]
Article missed key points of General Plan meeting
Letter to the editor by Robert W. Riebling (Views expressed are those of Mr. Riebling) “Director aims to peel back isle plan’s layers” (The Maui News, Feb. 3) missed two key points of the Feb. 2 meeting of the County Council’s General Plan Committee. First, 17, or 85 percent, of the 20 testifiers were critical […]
Maui Island Plan: Former Planning Director Testimony
Mike Foley (former Planning Director) shared this powerful testimony with the General Plan Committee at February 2 meeting: When we started the Update of the General Plan I told the County Council that in my 38 years of planning experience I had never before seen a General Plan without maps. A General Plan that doesn’t […]
Maui Island Plan
Maui Island Plan Thur, Feb. 16 1:30pm General Plan Committee may review, revise, and recommend approval of the following component of the consolidated draft Maui Island Plan: the introductory narrative for Chapter 8 (Directed Growth Plan). The Committee may also receive an overview from the Department of Planning on other elements of Chapter 8, including […]
Maui Island Plan must go forward
By Dick Mayer Our Maui County Council has been working for the past two years to complete our first comprehensive Maui Island Plan. Council members have worked hard and are now set to finalize a most important part of the plan – the directed growth chapter which will describe the urban and rural growth boundaries […]
Planning Dept “Simplifying” Maui Island Plan
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 […]