State takes up
Kapalua planMaui Land estimates the luxury
development will bring $1.1 billion
in capital investment
LAHAINA >> Maui Land & Pineapple Co. estimates that its plans to build a 690-unit luxury development mauka of the Kapalua resort in west Maui will generate $1.14 billion in capital investment and spending on the Valley Isle over 20 years.
A public hearing to reclassify 790 acres for "Kapalua Mauka" is scheduled before the state Land Use Commission Nov. 20-21 at the Wailea Marriott.
Maui Land said the proposed area has already been approved for development in the county's West Maui Community Plan and at a higher density of 750 units.
Under the proposed reduced density, the firm wants to remove 169 acres from pineapple cultivation and reconfigure 16 holes of the Kapalua Village Golf Course and add a second clubhouse.
The perimeter of the project would include 180 single-family rural lots on 275.3 acres, with 510 units of single-family and multi-family units on 515 acres of urban land.
Maui Land said the main entrance into Kapalua Mauka would be opposite Office Road and Honoapiilani Highway, the intersection that serves as the main entrance into the Kapalua resort.
The company estimated that the project would use daily from 250,000 to 350,000 gallons of drinking water and 900,000 to 1 million gallons a day in irrigation water.
To provide water, the firm proposes building a 500,000-gallon storage tank at the 820-foot level and a high-level tank at an elevation of 1,310 feet. It also wants to build a 5.5-million-gallon reservoir and a 2-million-gallon reservoir for landscaping and the golf course.
Maui Land said the project will generate $470.8 million in direct construction spending during a build-out period of 14 years. It estimated that the average sales price of a lot would be $450,000, and a house and lot, $705,000.
Maui Land noted that at neighboring Kapalua, the sales price of 190 home sites varying in size from 10,000 square feet to 350,000 square feet ranged from $419,000 to $5.2 million.
Copies of the proposed project, including an environmental impact statement, are available for review at the Maui Planning Department at 250 S. High St. in Wailuku and at the state Land Use Commission office, Room 406, Leiopapa A Kamehameha Building in Honolulu.
Those wishing to testify at the hearing are asked to submit a request to the commission by Nov. 7. The commission's telephone number in Honolulu is 587-3822.
