The state Land Use Commission ruled Thursday that revised plans for a commercial and light industrial subdivision violate the commission’s 1995 order to reclassify 68 acres from agricultural to urban use and ordered the project stopped.

The original proposal was to develop the 123-lot Pii­lani Promenade North and South on Pii­lani Highway, but the developer has since added two shopping centers and a 250-unit employee housing project on the Kihei site.

Maui contractor Goodfellow Bros. Inc., which is working on the project, said that as a result of the work stoppage, it will lay off or not rehire about 100 of its workers.

The group South Maui Citizens for Responsible Growth said Pii­lani Highway was not built to handle the amount of traffic that would be generated by the shopping centers.

Maui Tomorrow Executive Director Irene Bowie said the proposed shopping centers and housing project were not discussed during the original project approvals and are inconsistent with the county’s Kihei-Makena Community Plan.

Bowie said her group finds it unfortunate that workers are going to be laid off, but said the burden lies with the developer, who she said could have gone to the commission when the project changed so that other conditions would have been placed to lessen its impact.

Steve Goodfellow, chief executive officer of Goodfellow Bros., said the company will lay off about 70 workers within a month and also shelve its plan to rehire 30 workers it had laid off.