12/12/20 #kihei Maui News Front Page today: https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2020/12/states-first-4-lane-roundabout-to-be-built/ State’s first 4-lane roundabout to be built Project would create crossing for future high school students The state of Hawaii’s first four-lane roundabout will be built at the Piilani Highway intersection that services the new Kihei high...
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#kihei 07/15/20 The Kihei Community Association had two compelling questions for our 2020 County Council Candidates. Those questions and answers from candidates are listed here. Candidates who did not respond by the requested deadline may still offer their answers, and this table will be updated accordingly. Candidates were queried via email and responded via email. All candidate...
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North Kihei Neighborhoods Gets Freedom Back for Independence Day 7/7/20 OPEN AT 9 PM- Apparently this was just some sort of spill on road 7/7/20 ROAD CLOSE AGAIN TONIGHT AT 7:30 PM!! NOW WHAT. 6/27/20 #kihei For the last two months the Kaonoulu region of makai North Kihei has been under a varied sort of quarantine, due to a blockade at...
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Construction Layout Does Not Easily Allow for Safe Pedestrian Routes UPDATE 6/24/20 There were numerous community concerns about the width of the bike lanes, as it seems they are required to be 4 feet wide. While the area is inaccessible we were able to snap some pix (see below) and perception was less than 4′. We checked with both County (DPW) and developer (HGV)...
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#southmaui #kca #mauicountycouncil 4/17/18 We reported on the annual Council’s Committee regional visit to our South Maui district last Tuesday, April 9th, in the evening to hear the fiscal year 2020 budget concerns. So why did we venture to the Council chambers in Wailuku one week later? The nine elected officials are inundated with requests for funding from a wide variety of entities....
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UPDATE 4/8/19 Over the last year we receive inquires about this proposed project, increasingly in past few months as construction projects surrounding the land commence. The obstinate State DOE fighting the safe underpass just mauka. Other factors in the region, such as the Draft Kihei Master Drainage Plan overall rejection by the community, as we announced Amanda Cording will...
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9/18/18 #kihei Featuring a contrasting set of candidates, the forum began with two new lesser known guys from the East side vying for the County Council before the second half brought forth two well known guys striving to be our next Mayor. Claire Carroll and Shane Sinenci introduced themselves to about 150 attendees at St Teresa’s just after 6:30 to answer our questions on a variety of...
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Four popular topics presented to a very engaged, but manini turnout 5/16/18 #kihei Last evening’s general membership meeting, likely the last after several years hosted at the Kihei Charter Middle School facility before they relocate “up the hill”, brought out about fifty Association and community members, including two new political candidates for both State offices this year, Melissah...
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5/13/18 #kihei Is there any concerned citizen anywhere who is NOT aware that Tuesday at 6:30 PM is this month’s General Membership meeting? Well if you are that one guy, now you know too. The agenda includes the opportunity to learn about the County’s Kihei Transportation study; the latest on the bridge vs box culvert over or through the Kulanihakoi river gulch on South Kihei Road;...
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Communication 18-151 on agenda addresses the Kulanihakoi River Crossing UPDATE 4/20/18 #Kihei Reso passed Council 6-2 Yuki Lei and Mike White voted NO. More detains later UPDATE 4/19/18 MAUI NEWS FRONT PAGE ARTICLE ADDRESSES THE ISSUE TODAY http://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2018/04/south-maui-residents-object-to-bridge-project/ 4/16/18 #kihei Do you know how many...
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KCA HAD TEN DIRECTORS TESTIFYING FOR SOUTH MAUI CONCERNS !! 3/30/18 #kihei Was this a record? Have so many volunteer KCA board members ever submitted testimony to the County Council? Not that we recall, and oh yeah, we were not alone. On Thursday evening, the nine County Council members who compose their Budget & Finance Committee were first bestowed with lei by KCA at the Community Center...
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3/21/18 #kihei We are often asked how many we expect will attend a public meeting, and the answer is we don’t know, as numerous factors can determine turnout. Certainly the guests and topic are some part of that. So announcing we would hear from our two wahine legislative reps for the County and State, Member Kelly King and Senator Roz Baker, we set out in our usual manner. Boom! We were...
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Most of the 2018 Directors also participated 12/7/17 #kihei At the KCA office at 10 o’clock the BOD welcomed Councilor Kelly King to receive her update in exchange for our offered input and concerns in the final quarterly meeting for 2017. Some of the topics: Kulanihakoi River Bridge Replacement We presented our proposal for a pre-fab bridge which would allow water to flow and the wetland...
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KCA addresses Council on issues specific to our region 11/18/17 #kihei Yesterday In chambers, at the meeting of the Council, seven members participated with two excused. Probably the two largest issues of concern were the sand mining moratorium, which was again deferred and the filing of bill 67, which seems to spell the end of the Makila Kai development at Launiupoko. While we see these are...
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Manini fixes to aid walking & cycling are appreciated 10/23/17 #kihei While we await some positive feedback from County government for two projects near the infamous intersection of South Kihei Road (SKR) and Kaonoulu in North Kihei (SEE https://gokihei.org/environment/email-the-mayor-no-stop-light-or-culvert) we see a positive action this morning to help facilitate a little safer...
Read MoreEmail the County See our proposed letter to Mayor Arakawa concerning the County’s plans to add a traffic light, a concrete culvert, and a temporary detour bridge on South Kihei Road in the vicinity of Kaonoulu Street and Kulanihakoi Gulch, then take action by clicking the button above!
Read More9/26/17 # kihei Once again, fulfilling her commitment made even before assuming office in January, our Councilmember met with the board at the KCA office in Kihei early this afternoon for the third time. Items and issues discussed by the eight directors and a committee member meeting with Kelly included two of the ones recently discussed at our general membership meeting last Tuesday (9/19): how...
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9/20/17 #kihei Last evening, there were a lot of items to address by a very busy KCA team of directors right from our punctual kick off at 6:30 PM, to educate, inform & induce to participate our community. (You could be part of that team in 2018; nominations opened last night!) Everyone who has not already done so is encouraged to go to the extremely convenient tool...
Read MoreEmail the County See the proposed letter below to Mayor Arakawa concerning the County’s plans to add a traffic light, a concrete culvert, and a temporary detour bridge on South Kihei Road in the vicinity of Kaonoulu Street and Kulanihakoi Gulch, then take action by clicking the button above! Or even better, send the Mayor a written letter using the information below! If you have...
Read MoreTo Mayor Arakawa, cc: Will Spence, Dave Goode Aloha Mayor Arakawa, The community of Kihei is appealing to you for help on two important issues that we are currently facing. The first is the replacement of the Kulanihakoi Gulch culvert on South Kihei Road. The second is the intersection upgrade at the intersection of Kaonoulu Street and South Kihei Road. The issues are adjacent to each other on...
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