To: Chair Don Couch and Committee Members, Planning Committee Maui County Council pc.committee@mauicounty.us From: Albert Perez, Executive Director Maui Tomorrow Foundation, Inc. Re: PC-11, Lana`i Community Plan Update June 22, 2015 Maui Tomorrow is opposed to the following proposed new language in the Lana`i Community Plan: “Community plan land use designations are not regulatory unless […]
Save Our Community Plans
ALERT!!! Our Community Plans Are STILL Under Attack. The changes are starting on Lana`i, but may affect us all, if they spread to every community plan. New language has been inserted in the Lana`i Community Plan that was NEVER discussed in over a year of public deliberations. This language would gut the Community Plan’s land […]
Dick Mayer’s Testimony on PC-021
UPDATE: On June 18, 2015 this bill was deferred. TO: Chair, Donald Couch and members, Maui County Council Planning Committee FROM: Dick Mayer RE: PC-21 – Statement of Opposition June 18, 2015 A.1 Today’s Agenda has a “proposed bill” that may violate the land-use ordinance process A.2 COUNTY CHARTER Section 8-8.6 #2 Very specific on […]
Alert ! ! ! Oppose Attempt to Circumvent Maui Island Plan
ALERT ! ! ! Please Testify: Save our community plansThis Thursday June 18th at 9am the Maui County Council Planning Committee will hear PC-021 entitled “A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2.80B, MAUI COUNTY CODE, RELATING TO GENERAL PLAN AND COMMUNITY PLAN.” This bill will remove the force of law from the community plans, making the plans […]
Put the Implementation Back in Maui Island Plan
A letter to the County Council from a voter (not Maui Tomorrow) follows: Recommended changes to the Council’s proposed Bill 29 “A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE MAUI ISLAND PLAN IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM” Each community plan district shall have its own permanent Community District Planning Advisory Committee. PLEASE INSERT: “The Council shall establish permanent Community […]
Administration Guts Implementation Portion of Maui Island Plan
In an article for Maui Weekly, Susan Halas writes that: The version under consideration was drafted by the county Planning Department and dated Nov. 29, 2013. In this document, virtually all of the specific details proposed in earlier incarnations approved by GPAC and the Planning Commission have disappeared. and says that: Final version has few […]