By HARRY EAGAR, Staff Writer
The Maui News: June 17, 2008
WAILUKU — For its proposed 1,400-unit South Maui project, Honua‘ula Properties LLC has begun a new environmental impact statement, to be pursued simultaneously with its Phase II project district application.
Opponents of the project had contended during lengthy zoning hearings earlier this year that the original EIS, done in the 1980s when the project first was proposed as Wailea 670, was out of date and needed updating.
Developer Charlie Jencks said Monday that nothing in the zoning application triggered a requirement for a new study.
However, he said, several conditions imposed by the County Council in approving project district zoning did trigger Act 343, the state statute requiring environmental review.
“Improvements to Piilani Highway, our own wastewater treatment plant and improvements to other county roads” all require an EIS, he said....
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