Draft EA published for 1,128- lot Honokowai Master Plan
By BY LOUISE ROCKETT - | Jul 16, 2021
HONOKOWAI With potentially over 1,000 residences added to the Hawaiian Homes inventory above Honokowai, housing opportunities for Native Hawaiians have improved on the West Side. The Honokowai Master Plan, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA)/Anticipated Finding of No Significant Impact (AFONSI) was released last week Thursday, July 8, in The Environmental Notice. The estimated 777-acre proposed project is located in the Honokowai ahupua’a, Ka’anapali moku about five miles north of Lahaina, mauka of Honoapiilani Highway between Kaka’alaneo Drive and Kapalua Airport, mostly in the county’s AG Agriculture zoning district.
Virtual Open House for the Kahana Solar Project slated this month
By BY WALTER CHIHARA - | Mar 5, 2021
KAHANA The United States’ departure from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation in 2017 eerily foretold the ignorance of worldwide weather changes that would devastate civilizations everywhere. First came searing heat waves and windstorms igniting wildfires and untold devastation in the western states of the U.S. Then, most recently, numbing cold fronts with sub-zero temperatures not seen in over a century paralyzed the country with freezing snow conditions that brought death and destruction from deep in the heart of Texas to New England.