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 […]
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Moloka’i Ranch Donates 1,800 to Moloka’i Land Trust
From Pacific Business News The Mokio Preserve, located on the northwest end of Molokai, was former ranch land and contains about five miles of rugged shoreline, native coastal strand and dune ecosystems, seasonal wetland and several ancient Hawaiian sites.
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 […]