Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

While the community waits… and waits for the North South Collector Road (Liloa) across Kihei, or at least a bicycle strip in the corridor, the people make do to find a place to bicycle somewhat safely, away from motor vehicles, in the meantime. As Kihei experienced our first season rainstorm on Tuesday (2/7/12), we examined [...]

On Tuesday afternoon (2/7/12) KCA Planning Committee member Mark Hyde visited with this committe to inject some thoughts about the South Maui situation. Newly installed County Water Resources and Planning Program Manager Pamela Pogue  joined with committee members  Irene Bowie, Lucienne De Naie and Michael Howden in the discussion at Maui’s University of Hawaii.  

Within the last 10 days almost all of Maui’s animal organizations have had two opportunities to meet and collaborate to explore successful ways to benefit our domestic animals. A closed meeting on 1/25/12 began what will be a series of  such monthly conclaves, ultimatly realizing the long awaited opportunity to achieve large grants from Maddie’s Fund, http://www.maddiesfund.org/, [...]

Almost forty people populated a small section of the cavernous Community Center at 6:00 PM Monday (1/31/12) to view a presentation by our police department, but unfortunately most of them were employed by MPD, leaving almost twenty including a few media folks. A well coordinated power point explained functions of each segment of the department [...]

UPDATE: As the next phase of construction begins on 1/30/12 Pi’ikea has been reduced to one way (makai) from the highway to SKR, while Liloa is closed at it’s intersection, projected for several weeks. While much of the landscaping is blooming, one immediate problem reported to KCA  concerns the traffic lights on the highway at [...]

It is said the inspiration for singer, songwriter Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi,  containing those lyrics, “pave paradise, put up a parking lot,” came to her as she was flying into Honolulu decades ago, and saw the heavy construction below. Are we experiencing this today on Maui at Ulua Beach Park, as decades old trees are [...]

The KCA Planning Committee on Tuesday 1/24/12 heard a brief presentation fromKevin Carney of non-profit EAH Housing, explaining the potential, if government funding can be secured, to develop a 32 unit affordable rental complex at 82 Kanani Road. Originally this parcel was to be developed as Cove Beach Villas as a market value condo complex, and seemingly [...]

Well over two hundred very animated folks packed the house (cafeteria) on Monday evening (1/23/12) at the new Pomaikai  Elementary School in Kahului for the State Department of Transporation’s meeting concerning proposals to correct problems with the present runway conditions at our airport. DOT Chief of Communications  Dan Meisenzahl offered a power point explaining the three [...]

KCA Website update! Our computer wizards had eliminated the Menehunes, and you can again join or renew your membership on the website. If you are not a member, please join us. An animated group of South Maui residents heard DPW Director David Goode tell the KCA  the answers to a lot of questions on flooding & transportation [...]

Our first 2012 meeting at 6:30 PM Tuesday at the Charter School features DPW director David Goode addresing our concerns about roads, such as where’s that Collector Road, and how will S. Kihei be improved, what’s up with the bus stops?- flood mitigation, and safe pedestrain and bicycle passage around town. So along with your non-perishable food [...]