Hawaii Business Magazine
How to Resolve Community Conflicts
Community opposition to proposed projects is nothing new, but it seems to be more common nowadays. And more effective. To get moving on such projects, and others, Hawai‘i must work with communities that are demanding a voice in their future.
May 3, 2021
Illustration: Kayla Rivera
Recent high-profile conflicts have blocked Hawai‘i’s efforts to generate renewable electricity, build affordable housing and improve parks. This report looks at recent community conflicts and discusses ways to find common ground and collaboratively move forward.
Hundreds of people spent 39 nights in 2019 blocking the arrival of eight 568-foot-tall wind turbines that they said would be set up too close to residences and schools in rural Kahuku.
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Douglas Bigley, president of Ikaika Ohana, discusses the nonprofitâs proposed 63-unit affordable rental housing project, Kaiaulu o Haleleâa, on Monday afternoon during a meeting of the Maui County Councilâs Affordable Housing Committee. The Maui News / KEHAULANI CERIZO photo
A nonprofit housing developer is proposing a new 63-unit affordable rental project in South Maui with monthly rates starting at just over $500.
Ikaika Ohana, which is behind 100-percent affordable housing projects like Kaiaulu O Kupuohi in West Maui and Kaiwahine Village in north Kihei, is now planning the 63-unit Kaiaulu o Halele’a project, which would rent to households at or below 60 percent of the area median income. Two-bedroom units would run from $556 to $1,248 and three-bedroom units would go for $623 to $1,423, according to Douglas Bigley, Ikaika Ohana president. One unit would be constructed for an onsite manager.
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Traffic on Piilani Highway passes in front of the Kihei high school site in November where state officials want to build a roundabout. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
A state Department of Transportation official said the roundabout project proposed for Kihei high school can be completed by June 2022, just in time for the school’s target opening for the 2022-23 school year.
Design for the roundabout is currently ongoing and expected to be completed in May with construction able to begin in June, said Ed Sniffen, the department’s deputy director for highways.
It will be built at the intersection of Kulanihakoi Street and the four-lane Piilani Highway and will be the first two-lane roundabout in the state, DOT officials confirmed. (A story published on Dec. 12 incorrectly described the size of proposed roundabout).
Jan 15, 2021
As our community continues the long wait for the high school in Kihei (mauka of the highway), at least we had assurance for almost a decade that when it does open, the keiki and everyone else walking or cycling to the school had safe passage via an under- or overpass of the Pi’ilani Highway.
Do you know why? A state Land Use Commission condition. What do you know about this statewide all-volunteer panel?
Kihei Community Association commences its 61st year of incorporation with our first membership meeting of this year, where we welcome the current chair of this commission, special guest Jonathan Likeke Scheuer, as well as Maui’s own Dick Mayer and Mark Hyde to discuss numerous aspects of the LUC and its effects on our area.
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