Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

Maui County official discusses roads, sidewalks, bike paths and flooding in South Maui. “What we have to do is try to work with what we have.” February 2, 2012 Tom Blackburn-Rodriguez , The Maui Weekly It was a full house at the Tuesday, Jan. 17, meeting of the Kihei Community Association (KCA), with over 85 people gathered [...]

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 [...]

  The dirt lot that has served as an “overflow” parking lot for Kam III on mauka side of S. Kihei Road at Keonekai St is now a pay-per-use facility. This lot was generally considered to be County property by many of us, including our mayor; thus the community outrage when the signage went up [...]

A ever swelling crowd reached over 100 at the Kamali’i School on the evening of Dec 12, 2011, to first hear what Maui Electric Company (MECO) was now proposing for the additional transmission lines extending from Maalaea power station to So. Kihei, then speak up and tell MECO what the residents want for their community. KCA was [...]

Monday morning, 12/5/11, all the assorted MPD vehicles turning mauka off the Pi’ilani Hwy were not part of any emergency, but were heading, along with numerous county officials, to the official groundbreaking of the long awaited Kihei Makena Police Station. Initially budgeted for $40. M, one plus side to the economic depression, was reduced costs [...]

  Announcements that MECO is considerating alternatives to 70′ towers through our viewplaines; that land was aquired for new high school; and youth intern program at  Haleakala Park kicked off the meeting, before Jackie Jura announced the nomination of the 2012 BOD candidates, who were elected by member acclamation. Jay Krigsman of Krausz offered his updated visual presentation [...]

Tuesday, Nov. 15,  we return “home” for the last 2011 community meeting at the Kihei Charter Middle School at 41 E Lipoa at 6:30 PM.We ask those attending to remember non perishable food donations, as this will be our holiday season collection for the Maui Food Bank. Each November, the general membership elects the Board [...]

You know the adage, “If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.” But what if you have a good plan, and it fails. This was the essense of Jon Miller’s frustration, as he asked since we had a good community plan, how did we end up here, and what can be done to eliminate [...]

Our planning committee welcomed Gwen Hiraga, of Munekiyo & Hiraga, Inc, as well as Lori Sablas and Mapuana  Samonte-Nowak of IVCC on 9/20/11 to hear about a proposed cultural center  for the “Kihei Gateway” makai of the Piilani Highway just south of the N Kihei Rd intersection. The proposed center is approximately 30 acres, and would operate [...]