Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

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 [...]

We did it Kihei! $130 Million for Kihei High School. The Kihei Community Association has been advocating  for a full-service DOE High School for our community for decades. The Kihei High School Action Team (A KCA sub-committee) is happy to report that we have secured the financing to move forward. The House and Senate money [...]

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 [...]

UPDATE 4/1/13   Our last report from almost 16 months ago(following) addressed what happen when stop sign was flattened several times. Here is the newest installment.       12/5/2011–Right by the entrance to the new Kihei Community Park, where Liloa ends at intersection of Halekuai, vehicles driving south on Liloa had a full stop, before they [...]

UPDATED MAR 13, 2013 Maui County Planning Committee unamimously approves next phase of this development, at which KCA offered testimony.  See Maui News Article:   http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/570697/Environmental-clearance-for-Kihei-project.html?nav=10   Interesting they are updating traffic study. NOV 8 2012 Led by executive V. P.  Jay Krigsman, The Krausz Companies offered an updated presentation of their Downtown Kihei Project, which [...]

UPDATE; MAR 12, 2013 Acocording to  County Government, yes they are and very soon. See Maui Now report: Ist will be on our roads in a few weeks. http://mauinow.com/2013/03/12/mauis-first-double-decker-bus-to-serve-kihei-islander-route/ ORIGINAL POST OCT 12, 2012  As the bus shelters are being erected along SKR in North Kihei, it now appears that the newly purchased double decker [...]

This evening (3/4/13) , due to a fatal accident involving a pedestrian crossing  our Pi’ilani Hwy, necessitating  closing it in both directions from Waipuilani to Pi’ikea for several hours, with traffic detoured makai,  and as expected, caused major traffic jams on all streets in every direction. This may have been the first traffic failing on our roundabout. http://mauinow.com/2013/03/04/traffic-accident-piilani-hwy-waipuilani-road/   [...]

UPDATE   (2/26/13) This month we saw the portable speed device again alerting drivers in each direction their present speed, makai of the Pi’ilani highway on Ohukai in North Kihei.  Now Public Works Director David Goode has announced vehicle speed statistics were being compiled with a potential outcome being that speed tables or other traffic calming [...]

UPDATE:  Repairs to the “dust fence” at the site began yesterday (2/19/13) by Goodfellow Brothers. While the State Land Use Commission plans for deliberations on the next action for that portion of Kihei land mauka of the Pi’ilani Hwy near Kaonoulu, Paka’a acted this afternoon (2/17/13), taking out a portion of the job site construction [...]

 How many Maui residents are really familiar with Maui County’s Community Plan process? Many guys get that it is a outline for how each section of the County’s islands are developed. The Kihei Makena Community Plan (KMCP), one of nine county wide, covers the area for the Ahihi Kinau Marine Reserve north to Mehameha Loop, [...]