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Every Sunday, “Back in the Day” looks at an article that ran on this date in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The items are verbatim, so don’t blame us today for yesteryear’s bad grammar.
Parts of Oahu could change dramatically if some of the 135 proposed land-use amendments to development plans are adopted during next year’s annual review of the short-term planning blueprints.
If all of the 22 changes being proposed by landowners for the Koolaupoko plan area (Waimanalo to Kualoa) were adopted, more than 840 acres of agricultural and preservation land — including 326 acres on the slope of Mt. Olomana and 100 acres on the edge of Heeia Marsh — would be put into residential land-use category.
The Olomana proposal was initiated by the City Council upon the request of Walter Zane, who proposes to build a 61-unit agricultural subdivision. The Heeia amendment is being sought by the Kamehameha Schools/ Bishop Estate, which plans to build a 300-unit residential subdivision.
Also among the proposed Windward side proposals that would require redesignation of agricultural and preservation land are projects affecting 102 acres of Hawaiian Electric Co. land at Heeia; 98 acres of Castle Estate land along Kaelepulu Stream in Kailua; 95 acres of Waiahole-Waikane farmland owned by Elizabeth Marks; another 44 acres owned by Castle Estate in the Kailua area; and a 22-acre Castle Estate parcel near Hawaiian Memorial Park. …
The Council already has adopted development plans for the primary urban center (Kahala to Pearl City) and the Ewa area.
Redrafts of six plans for the rural and urban fringe areas of Oahu are on today’s city Planning Commission agenda.
Yesterday, Deputy Planning Director Ralph Portmore outlined some of the major changes that have been proposed in the thick stack of amendments to the maps and texts of the eight plans.
He noted that eight Central Oahu land-use changes initiated by the Council would amount to a major shift away from previous planning efforts, allowing large new residential areas at Waipio and Mililani on lands now devoted to sugar and pineapple.