Paia, Maui – Trees Please at Baldwin Beach, a project of Maui Tomorrow Foundation in partnership with the Maui Film Festival, will celebrate Prince Kuhio Day on Monday, March 26th with a call for volunteers to join in a clearing of green waste and branches from a designated area at Baldwin Beach. Hand tools, […]
Testimony Points Out Flaws in Olowalu EIS Facts/Assumptions
Sierra Club Maui Group Aug 7, 2010PO BOX 791180Pa’ia, HI 96779 To: State Land Use CommissionPO Box 2359Honolulu, HI 96804Attention: Dan Davidson Re: Comments on EISPN for Proposed Olowalu Town Master PlanTMK (2) 4-8-003: 84, 98-118 and 124 Aloha Kakou Sierra Club Maui Group has been tracking proposed developments at Olowalu since the first Ag […]
SB755 Testimony Needed Before Wed Mar 21
SUBMIT TESTIMONY HERE:http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/submittestimony.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=755 The House is planning a major ‘bait and switch’ amendment to SB 755 (originally dealing with playing internet poker!). It would allow the governor and all the mayors to exempt projects from HRS 343. A major part of the amendment is found hidden in “Part VI”. Other parts are also bad. Schedule: […]
Mahalo For Your Testimony on the Maui Island Plan
Mahalo to those who attended or send comments to the recent General Plan committee meeting on March 14. The Council Committee DID hear our message and adopted a chart of Growth Boundaries & land use planning forms that included “a separate, defined Country Town” designation, renamed as “small town” (this is because many council members […]
Council Rejects Spence’s Revision of General Plan
The General Plan Committee of the Maui County Council voted 8-0 to reject revisions to the directed growth element of the Maui Island Plan offered by Maui County Department of Planning Director Will Spence. The revision proposal stirred controversy because it removed the details which put “teeth” into the Maui Island Plan, and engendered much […]
Video – Maui Island Plan
http://youtu.be/o5nUREX6itQ