PLANNING COMMITTEE Monday, December 3, 2012 1:30 p.m. Council Chamber, 8th Floor 200 South High Street, Wailuku, Hawaii PC-21 MAKENA RESORT CHANGE IN ZONING COMPLIANCE WITH CONDITIONS RELATING TO ACCESS FOR PARKS AND RECREATION PC-28 ANNUAL COMPLIANCE REPORT — CHANGE IN ZONING CONDITIONS (ORDINANCE 3613 (2009)) FOR MAKENA RESORT PC-34 ANNUAL COMPLIANCE REPORT – HONUA’ULA […]
Maui Island Plan: Drop Olowalu Town, Say Testifiers
NANEA KALANI at Maui News: The majority of testimony focused on opposition to developer Frampton & Ward’s plan to build 1,500 housing units – including 750 affordable housing units – on 600 acres in Olowalu. More than half of the 55 testifiers during a four-hour morning session spoke out against the project, which the General […]
Free PLDC Discussion
★DISCUSSION of ACT 55~PLDC★ (Public Land Development Corporation) Monday, DEC. 3, PAIA Community Center’s Main Hall, 7pm UPCOUNTRY SUSTAINABILITY hosts Mahina Martin and Lucienne de Naie will present their research on the controversial PLDC recently passed by the legislature. Specifically, they will address: ~How Act 55 evolved legislatively (using some of Gary Hooser’s insight/info) ~The […]
Megamall Hearing: Evidence Finished
[Dick] Mayer characterized light industrial use as one that would provide full-time, well-paid jobs to local residents and ownership opportunities to local businesses. Retail use, he said, might provide many jobs, but they would be low-wage positions that were likely to be part-time and provide few benefits to employees. He also claimed that monies generated by the shopping centers would mostly benefit off-island owners and that an influx of big-box tenants would be detrimental to the existing locally owned small businesses in Kihei.
State Official: [megamall] “Plan clearly different”
A state Office of Planning official said that developers of two large retail centers and 250 affordable housing units in Kihei should have filed a motion with the state Land Use Commission to amend conditions placed on the parcel that was initially proposed as a light industrial park. “This is a clearly different project than […]
Testify: Put Green Areas Back into Maui Island Plan
Subject: Take Makena 390 acres Urban back out of the plan & Put Back In the Green Areas Message: Makena Resort – 390 more acres of development? Not Needed, Not Wanted, Not Deserved! Green areas, parks, preservation turned into nonbinding diagrams? Maui Island Plan has turned into a Growth Plan not a Green Plan Who […]