Volunteers needed and donations are welcome!
Help Maui Sierra Club care for our streams and watersheds. Donate your colorful tropical blooms, productive fruit trees, healthy native plants, cut flowers as well as gently used yard sale items, gift certificates and home made baked goods.
Volunteers welcomed to pick up plants and help to set up May 10 and day of event May 11.
To help out or donate, please call or text Raina : 303 289-1087.
At our recent HCA community meeting, questions were asked about what is going on with the property that is for sale directly across from the Ha’iku Community Center, makai of Hana Hwy. We looked into this and here is what we found…
There are three parcels for sale by Wainaku LLC, of Honolulu. These parcels contain the traditional access road to the Pauwela Lighthouse, which the County owns. The lot most makai is 82 acres and is being sold for $3.5M. The next lot mauka is 44 acres is being sold for $2.0M. The last lot is next to Hana Hwy, is 6.7 acres and is being sold for $1.3M. Total acreage is 133 acres.
The community uses the Pauwela Lighthouse Road to get to the coast as well as the lighthouse, and the new owner may not allow use of the road by the public. Furthermore, the path which goes along much of the coast between Maliko and Kaupakalua gulch will also be blocked. And lastly, this land has been the home of the Waikikena Foundation, run by the late Alex Bode and Kathy Kaohu.
The best thing for the community would be that the County of Maui purchases these lots as part of its land preservation program. The county could use the mauka properties for expansion room for the Haiku School or Haiku Community Center, traditional public access would be retained, and Waikikena can continue its work.
Let the county council know what you think during the upcoming budget meetings. You can email them here.
The map below shows the land owners along the coast. Orange properties are owned by Kamehameha Schools. Yellow is the Hamakualoa Open Space, owned by the County. Blue is just Lot 1 of the Nalu Ola project. The light purple lots (“Wainaku Parcels”) are the three for sale and the green lot is the Pauwela Lighthouse, owned by the County. Blue line is the coast.
