The Maui County Council’s General Plan Committee will review the Directed Growth Plan for the Wailuku-Kahului region in a special meeting on March 14, at 1:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber. The region is contained in Chapter 8 of the draft plan, and includes proposed rural and urban growth boundaries for the area.
Planning Director Claims He Isn’t Gutting Maui Island Plan
Maui News by Ilima LoomisPlanning Director Will Spence said Friday that his efforts to simplify the Maui Island Plan have been misunderstood by critics as an attempt to gut the document. Spence said that he was a strong supporter of ideas like greenbelts and growth boundaries, and that his proposal for the Maui Island Plan […]
Mark Hyde: Pi’ilani Promenade Not in Compliance with LUC, Community Plan
Viewpoint: Planned Kihei mall not in compliance with LUC order or community plan The proposed retail outlet shopping mall in Kihei was recently sprung on the community without notice or debate and presented as a done deal, allegedly based on approvals secured many years ago. The history of the project presents an entirely different picture. […]
Directed Growth Plan Mar 1
General Plan Committee Meeting Council Chambers, 8th Floor 200 S. High St., Wailuku Thursday 1:30pm until 4:30pm The General Plan Committee is currently reviewing and making decisions on THE MOST CRITICAL chapter of the Maui Island Plan (Directed Growth Plan, Chapter 8). The Direct Growth Plan chapter sets policy on managing Maui’s growth and development […]
Article missed key points of General Plan meeting
Letter to the editor by Robert W. Riebling (Views expressed are those of Mr. Riebling) “Director aims to peel back isle plan’s layers” (The Maui News, Feb. 3) missed two key points of the Feb. 2 meeting of the County Council’s General Plan Committee. First, 17, or 85 percent, of the 20 testifiers were critical […]
Maui Island Plan: Former Planning Director Testimony
Mike Foley (former Planning Director) shared this powerful testimony with the General Plan Committee at February 2 meeting: When we started the Update of the General Plan I told the County Council that in my 38 years of planning experience I had never before seen a General Plan without maps. A General Plan that doesn’t […]