Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

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 [...]

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 [...]

Updates: While PETCO announced they will no longer sell Yellow Tangs at the Maui store, they refused to take other actions,  like no sale of wild caught reef fish, so the protestors returned again on January 4 for a couple of hours, and announced yet another rally on Saturday1/14/12 at 11 AM  in this same [...]

After their very successful flood forum just before Thanksgiving, which KCA cosponsered, the Clean Water Committee is now seeking a pilot project as a way to determine what can help mitigate the seasonal flooding in Kihei. One of the considerations for the project concerns the availablity of recycled (R-1) water for irrigation of any plantings. [...]

UPDATE: 1/15/12. The dead tree has been replaced by the Parks Dept. with a   a Noni-Indian Mulberry, which with proper care could grow to twenty feet from the several inches it is now. It sits among the original two Milos that seem to be growing well. The KCA apprciates the Administraiton’s rectification of this situation. Mahalo. UPDATE 12/26/11 [...]

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Kihei High School has been released. Follow this link  (note – it is a large .pdf file, so it may take a few minutes to load) http://oeqc.doh.hawaii.gov/Shared%20Documents/EA_and_EIS_Online_Library/Maui/2010s/2011-12-23-DEIS-Kihei-High-School.pdf

When the County Council’s Planning Committee,  chaired by Kihei’s own Don Couch, announced they would be discussing, “Walkable & Livable Communities,” as well as “Repetitive loss of Properties; Floodplain Management Plan,” at their afternoon meeting on December 12, we felt Kihei was very interested, and sent a representative to address  & listen to the committee. [...]

OK, we had the “grand opening” of the first segment Kihei Greenway back on July 29, but no one has been able to use it to date, as it’s stiil closed. The middle portion of this segment is involved in the roundabout construction , scheduled for completion August 2012 (but maybe sooner,) so maybe we’ll [...]

Why would this group concerned with flooding in Kihei, and the related damage to the near shore waters of South Maui, conduct these two meetings in Kula? Maybe because they are looking at the source of the problem, rather than the result? Maybe they are looking at Hawaiian ahupua’a (mountains to sea) approach? Regardless, the [...]

OK, you know KCA has no community meeting in December, but right on time here comes MECO to talk to the community about their proposed 70′ tall poles for transmission lines, and multi million dollar power substations, across Kihei. The meeting is set for 7pm-9pm on Tuesday Dec 13th at Kamali’i Elementary School 180 Ke [...]