Don't Give Up!

Save Makena is not giving up, this is far from over, This approval was a small part of a long journey. Will keep everyone posted on things as they come up, It still needs to go through the planning commission and Special Management Area approvals, etc.

Remember, the 3rd entrance of Oneloa/Big Beach was once zoned for condos before it became a state park!

Here are some issues that were not addressed by the County Council:

• Affordable housing guarantees
  


• Guarantee, not promises of jobs of local residents
  


• Historic District mauka of Puu Olai Land, protecting land rich in cultural sites
  


• Independent Master Plan for Makena State Park.use local consultants & include all users
  


• Resolve land titles with native Hawaiians
  


• Prioritize water resources for affordable housing first.
  


• green building should not destroy natural shape of the land
  


• Updated environmental review- 1974 EIS described a different project under different circumstances
  


• Preserve all traditional mauka-makai roads trails and coastal access from Makena landing to Pu'u Ola'i
  

THE ISSUES:

AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Makena Resort wants to set a new, lower standard: 33% of total units created will be affordable. 50% of total units required now.  But in fact, the pro-Makena Resort councilmembers took out all firm numbers for affordable housing leaving the possibility that no affordable housing may be built.

Makena Resort refuses to commit to current Affordable Housing law standards. If law is changed to require only 20% affordable, as Chamber of commerce and corporate landowners want, only 264 affordable units will be created by this $7 billion project

We asked for one affordable unit o have its certificate of occupancy for each luxury unit completed and affordable requirements should be set by today's workforce housing bill, not future watered down versions but the 5 councilmembers ignored the current workforce housing law.

CULTURAL SITE PROTECTION:
Now developments will be planned before all cultural sites are documented. A sure recipe for destruction of sites that are "inconveniently located" regardless of their connection to other sites.

ASK FOR: the area of highest known site concentration, mauka of Puu Olai to the eastern border of Makena Resort lands, to be protected as a historic district.

WATER
No specific plan. Maybe stream water from Iao & Waihee. Maybe ground water from East Maui. Maybe massive de-sal plant and injected brine. Big plans. No water.

We asked that the developer give detailed plans for water including siting of any facilities, amount (if any) of groundwater used, means of disposal of brine (if applicable) and plan for monioring drawdown and salinity at the edges of the property.  But the 5 councilmembers let the zoning change go through without any water guarantee.

JOBS:
Maui Prince will be torn down. Will there be jobs for 400 employees at a new Golf Club? or Beach Club? Where is it in the Master Plan Construction financing is uncertain. Will housing be built in the next several years, or is the rezoning a bail out of shaky Morgan Stanley finances?

We asked for calendar years 2009, 2010, 2011 Developer must provide to the County Council proof that they have paid the equivalent of 1000 full time jobs to Maui County Residents or the zoning will revert and this bill shall expire, but the 5 councilmembers bought into Makena Resort's empty promises and did not include a use it or lose it job guarantee.

Map of proposed Makena and Wailea 670 Developments Dwarf Existing Neighborhoods.

See the larger map showing more of Wailea, Makena and Kihei. Map of developments for South Maui.

See also the list (as of April 1, 2007) of the committed, designated, and proposed developments in each of the six community plan districts of Maui Island. LIST . Read a summary with comments.

What it looked like prior to Makena Resort Owner Destroying his Maluaka Land:

MAKENA IS A PART OF OUR ANCIENT HERITAGE

"And where the cold Ukiu wind bears down, glowing red (driving the dust) is Honua'ula, where the winds begin to die.

Where the wind dies upon the kula (plains) is the sub-region of Makena and Kula, where the mists are seen creeping along the plain.

This is a land famous with the Chiefs from the distant past"