Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

On Tuesday morning (5/14/13) the KCA planning committee welcomed Wilson Okomoto Corp. of Oahu offering  a presentation of a proposed bridge replacement in the notorious flooding area at the corner of Kaonoulu, near the Whale Sanctuary in North Kihei. The existing four barrel box culverts are failing, and a bridge replacement is being developed. Led by [...]

UPDATE  5/8/13  While the event only drew 22 last evening, your Association was there in strength. Five members of KCA’s board of directors attended a small town smart growth and green streets informational open house on May 7 sponsored by Maui county’s departments of Planning and Public Works and by Maui’s Nutritional and Physical Activity [...]

No, it was not a  KCA  public meeting on Tuesday (4/30/13) evening at the Kihei Community Center, but with nearly half of the all volunteer KCA BOD, some committee and numerous general members in attendance and participating, totaling probably half of the 40 in attendance, KCA’s voice was a strong one. But it was a Maui [...]

This morning (4/26/13) our Board of Directors met with the owner’s representative of the notorious “Mega Mall” area mauka of the Pi’ilani Hwy at Kaonoulu in North Kihei. The BOD was invited to meet with Charlie Jencks and his assistant Tom Blackburn Rodriguez to discuss changes there. KCA was advised that Eclipse Development Group of Irvine, [...]

UPDATE * APR 18,2013  PUBLIC MEETING    MECO has announced a meeting on Tuesday 4/30/13 from 6:30-8:30 PM at the Kihei Community Center 303 E Lipoa St concerning the “proposed South Maui Reliability Projects,” including the transmission line from Maalaea across Kihei and the Kamali’i and Kaonoulu substations. For more information, call 244-2015 DEC 14, 2011   An [...]

An audience of about 60 indicated much interest in how South Maui can recover from poor or even lack of planning for the past decades in our community at the general membership meeting last evening (4/16/13). Viewing and listening to George Rixey’s presentation on concepts he formulated in the 90′s elicited questions why they were [...]

The Design Review Committee began the month (4/2/13) in a meeting coordinated by Mike Munekiyo of Munekiyo & Hiraga for McDonald’s Corporate representatives, including construction manager Sam Chee. from Honolulu. The meeting was to advise that the restaurant chain is “re-branding” their structures nationwide, including this one in central Kihei on South Kihei Road makai, [...]

About half on the 2013 KCA directors were on hand Friday evening (4/5/13) for a visual presentation by our own Daniel Kanahele, Dr Lee Altenberg, and Lucienne De ‘naie, concerning the proposed Honualua development, previously called Wailea 670, supposedly for the  670 acreage of the project, but reports proposed outline exceeds that already. The golf [...]

If much of South Maui was unplanned, or poorly designed, is it too late to fix it? Do you have a  vision for Kihei’s future? What does smart planning mean to you? This month’s general membership meeting on Tuesday, April 16, will examine some of these issues and concerns, beginning at 6:30 PM at the [...]

The KCA expresses out thanks to Council Member Don Couch for a conversation this morning (3/18/13)  concerning KCA priorties for  the upcoming 2014 FY budget. Several directors advised our major concerns formulated mostly around making South Maui more pedestrian and bicycle friendly.  Specifics went to the North South Collector Road corridor and what can be achieved there with [...]