Guest Commentary. The General Plan Committee has finished its review of the MIP and is forwarding it’s committee report and proposed plan to the full council. Here are some of the most significant differences: 1. The whole Implementation chapter plus the Appendix with all the needed CIP projects has been completely left out with a […]
Life of the Land PLDC Testimony 10-13-2012
re: Proposed Adoption of Hawaii Administrative Rules This meeting is not listed on the PLDC “2012 Board Meeting” Web page (20 nor is it listed on the Hawaii eGov Calendar site.2 The PLDC has posted its proposed rules on the DLNR website.(3) Life of the Land was born in 1970, before the first Earth Day […]
LUC Hearings on Pi’ilani Megamall Continue
Maui Weekly reports: On the face of it, it would seem they are “different,” and in fact, every expert witness the developers called to testify during the two days of testimony only accentuated the differences. The 1995 plan has no resemblance to the 2012 plan, except that they are both zoned M-1…. Witnesses called by […]
EIS Filed for Leiali’i
The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Villages of Leiali’i Affordable Housing Project was published in the Oct. 23 Environmental Notice, the state Office of Environmental Quality Control’s bi-monthly publication. The 1,033-acre West Maui development is located in the Wahikuli ahupua’a on ceded lands owned by the State of Hawaii and the Hawaii Housing […]
PLDC Meeting
The Public Lands Development Corporation meeting will be televised live on Akaku November 13th at10:30am. (Meeting is on Oahu)
Summary of Public Lands Development Corporation Law
Information on Act 55 By Donna Wong, Hawaii Thousand friends In the 2011 legislative session Senator Donovan Dela Cruz introduced SB 1555, which created Act 55 the Public Land Development Corporation (PLDC). SB 1555 snuck through the legislature with only 3 public hearings including only 1 hearing on the exemption language. Act 55: […]