The Committee on Infrastructure, Transportation and Technology met on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at 9:05 AM via remote and in-person conference, chaired by Councilmember Cordero. The primary agenda item was a presentation by Department of Housing and Land Management Director Kevin Alger on the city's redevelopment efforts for the Iwilei Center and the future Kūwili Skyline Station area. A previously scheduled item on pedestrian fatalities and road safety was canceled.
Good morning. Uh, will the committee on infrastructure transportation and technology please come to order? It is Wednesday, April one, twenty twenty-six at nine oh five AM, and I would like to welcome our committee vice chair Okimoto, as well as Committee Member Dosantos Tam and uh Committee Member Weyer is on his way. Pursuant to section ninety two dash three point seven, the Hawaii revised statutes HRS. This meeting will be conducted as a remote meeting by interactive conference conference technology with the following procedures in effect for the meeting. Members of the public will be allowed to provide oral testimony on all items on the agenda through two ways, remotely and in person in the council chamber. Remote and in-person oral testimony will be allowed when the agenda item is taken up. As both English and Hawaiian are in our official languages of the state of Hawaii, pursuant to Article 15 section 4 of the Hawaii State Constitution and HRIS Section 1-13. 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I will then identify uh that person by the last three digits of your phone number. Um when that phone number is called, please press star six to unmute yourself when prompted. Some friendly reminders and tips. Video conference from a quiet location if possible. If you're also watching the proceedings on Olelo, please mute your television at the time you are called to testify. When the timer on the screen reaches zero, please conclude your remarks promptly. Once all the remote testifiers have testified, I'll proceed to in-person testimony in the council chamber. Persons who have not registered will be given an opportunity, opportunity to speak following the oral testimonies of the registered speakers. Um with that member and cannot reconvene until we we re-establish contact. Therefore, I will ask that member to announce beforehand if they will be voluntarily signing out of the meeting. Written testimonies, including the testifier's address, email address, and phone number, will be available to the public as described on the posted agenda. As a courtesy, please turn off or silence your cell phone or mobile devices. Okay, with that, um we have counseled for uh agenda item number one. Um the this would have been the last item or last uh part of our series to talk about um pedestrian fatalities as well as actions by our state and city agencies to discuss uh road safety. Um, as you all know, we had the Honolulu Police Department as well as uh the city's Department of Transportation Services with us a few months ago. Uh the state of the state of Hawaii's Department of Transportation was ready to go. Um, our director Ed Sniffin. Um, however, he was called out and so called out to Waialua, and um we will be canceling that item um for today. With that, we now have just one agenda item um moving forward, uh, which is the update on the city's redevelopment efforts for Evilet Center and the future skyline Kubili station area. Joining us um from in the council chamber is Kevin Alger, Director of the Department of Housing and Land Management, who will be providing a brief description for your information. The presentation is available online as Departmental Communication 223 2026 here. Okay, wow, it's really quite a hefty presentation, director. Luckily, you're the only one, yeah. Uh so um with that, uh, we'll kick it over to the executive to the director of the department of housing and land management. That's great. Aloha, and good morning, committee chair Cordero, uh Committee Vice Chair Oakimoto and Councilmember DeSantos TAM. It's a pleasure to be here this morning. And before we begin, I just I want to thank the committee chair for the opportunity to present this information this morning. We really appreciate that. We also want to give a shout out to your staff who's been just extraordinarily supportive and helpful in scheduling and helping us organize this. So we really appreciate all of that uh collaboration. Um this morning we're gonna talk about the city's efforts uh to redevelop the Yvolay Center uh property and also our efforts to uh master plan and develop um the future, the area around the future Cooley Rail Station. Um, as we know and are familiar with the skyline is now a reality.