Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

It was reported that when the Kihei Community Association( KCA) was established over a half century ago, the two major community concerns were water and roads, and most agree those concerns have not changed. What is changing is our water and our growth. It was just reported April had record lack of rainfall on Maui, while South [...]

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  Last evening’s (5/9/13) meeting seemed to have just a few residents in the small audience, after you subtracted the various government employees who participated. Read a professional report of this meeting in the Maui News.  http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/572598/Ammo-debris-found-during-bombing-site-investigation.html?nav=10   Do you know that just off the leeward coast of Maui within our Ahihi-Kina’u Reserve in South Maui, there [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

UPDATE (MAR 22, 2013) As the County Council awaits receiving the budget from  the mayor on Monday (3/25/13), KCA is awaiting confirmation that the money is there for this long expected bicycle path (APR 24, 2012) As the community enjoys the just completed bike path makai of Liloa between Lipoa Street and Waipuilani Road, Public Works [...]

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 [...]

Last evening (3/19/13) an audience of about 85 listened & questioned presenters on numerous topics of concern to the So. Maui Community at our monthly public community meeting. Whether it was George Rixey on smart growth at the conclusion, or Mike Moran’s opening on Pump Don’t Dump  or the PUC/Pi’ilani Promenade proceedings offered by Mark Hyde, [...]

This weekend (3/9/13) we see the effect an overnight rain shower can have on our gulches, and the resulting effect on near shore ocean waters. The Whale Sanctuary (HIHWNMS) was immediately trying to take samples of this run off to determine its effect. Proceeding mauka up the gulch, we see the effects on the “people’s [...]