Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

While the KCA has advocated for street trees and urban forests for the betterment of our community, on occasion we see the action going in the wrong direction. When Kai Makani condo development was constructed less than five years ago, S Kihei Rd was modified to add parking places and a series of young trees were planted [...]

UPDATE: See news item on project from Maui Now!   http://mauinow.com/2012/04/18/brief-ulupalakuas-auwahi-wind-farm-to-break-ground/   As we gaze west, we easily view the established and developing wind turbines on the West Maui Mountains, but what about the next project,  Sempra’s Auwahi Wind , set to begin its next phase on Tuesday (4/17/12) above us on Haleakala?  They have already been doing preliminary work [...]

UPDATE Councilman Don Couch advised the KCA last evening (4/17/12) that it would be next to impossible to build anything at this corner due to required permitting issues. Earlier this month, Mayor Arakawa advised the KCA that the County had no interest in purchasing it to prevent commercial building. UPDATE: While Kihei only experienced some showers [...]

The KCA appreciates that the mayor agrees to meet with the board of directors each quarter to listen to our community’s concerns. Last Monday, directly from the new Kihei roundabout blessing and grand opening, several members of the BOD headed up to the ninth floor to voice concern for the very long awaited N-S collector road [...]

At a sparsely attended public meeting Monday (4/9/12) evening at 5:00 PM at Maui Waena school in Kahului, Transportation Officials offered the community choices available for the first phase on the proposed airport access road between Puunene Av and Hana Highway. With costs ranging from $25 to $45 million for the choice of 3 plans, [...]

As the elected and appointed County officials conducted the ceremony  opening Kihei’s Roundabout at Liloa and Pi’ikea Monday, Councilman Don Couch named two past KCA presidents as being instrumental figures in this accomplishment for our community, David Frazier and George Rixey, who was present. One half of the ten current KCA board members joined other [...]

UPDATE: We observe in the mayor’s proposed budget, now before the County Council, a CIP item (3-182) for Public Works for this problem area at a cost of just over $1.M over next five years.*** For well over a decade numerous public complaints have been expressed about the three traffic signals on SKR between Lipoa and Pi’ikea, [...]

Following a KCA Street Tree Committee meeting with Public Works Director David Goode on March 8, the Board of Directors voted unamimously to submit the requsted letter of agreement to the Director to leave the trees in place and get the sidewalk repaved as soon as possible. Here is the letter. March 17, 2012 David [...]

In KCA’s March 11, 2012 letter to Mayor Alan Arakawa the Board of Directors asks the administration to give a second look at the Piilani Promenade Outlet Mall to assure that it is in compliance with the Kihei-Makena Community Plan, the Order Issued at the Land Use Commission in 1995 that is recorded against the property, [...]

While there’s some dispute how long Maalaea small boat harbor has been in existence( since 1952?) it’s unquestionably several decades, and some contend much of it remained unchanged, save for deterioration. After many false starts, the refurbishing began last year, but a recent look in March only reveals the roadway & parking areas were repaved, and the [...]