The Housing and Land Use Committee reconvened on August 19, 2026, at 9:08 a.m. to continue consideration of Resolution 26-129 and Resolution 26-130, which propose referring bills to the Maui Planning Commission to amend community plans and rezone certain apartment district properties within the Sea Level Rise Exposure Area (SLR-XA) to hotel districts (H-3 and H-4) to allow continued transient vacation rental (TVR) use. The meeting included extensive public testimony and clarifying questions from council members. No votes were taken; the committee recessed and will reconvene on August 27, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Good morning. Well, the housing and lands committee meeting of August fifth, twenty twenty-six please reconvene. It is nine oh eight AM on August. Thank you. Minors do not need to be identified. No, don't yeah, not on your computer anyway. Just this. Yeah. I'm gonna get this. That's okay. Good morning, Chair. And uh just want to make an announcement that our key office has lost power. The whole area, traffic lights and stuff, so nobody's there this morning. But I'm here and ready to work. Thank you very much. As you know, if you're going to go on, that's what you would say. Half a day today is like a dream, but anyway, we can. Thank you. Now I see her face. Good morning. Aloha Kaka Kayaka. Sorry. Um I'm at the Molokai District Office. Um I said it's a definitely there's no testifiers. Oh, yeah. Sounds good. Thank you. And member Sanancy is also excused today, sending extra love to him in his office. His family. And lastly, but not leastly, Councilmember Yukile Sugimura. Good morning, everybody. Happy Day, cool day. We're ready to work. Thank you. From administration, we have with us a deputy planning director, Anna Lillis. We have the director of finance, Marcy Martin, who may be with us for majority of our meeting today. County Rural Property Tax Administrator, Kari Stockwell, the Deputy Director of Public Works, Paul Barney, and Deputy Corporation Council Nahulununokawa. We also have HOU committee staff. Good morning, everyone. Please see the last page of the agenda for information on meeting connectivity. We have before us the same agenda we had the last time. So, members, the items on our agenda today are resolutions 26-129 and 26130, which would refer to the Maui Planning Commission proposed bills to amend the Kihe Makenna community plan and West Maui community plan and change your zoning for certain apartment district properties to H3 and H4 hotel districts to allow for continued TVR uses. We're taking up both items together. We recess our last meeting during oral testament oral testimony period. So we'll continue with oral testimony now. Testifiers wanting to provide testimony should sign up in the lobby. Join on the online meeting via Teams link or call into the phone number noted on today's agenda. Written testimony is encouraged and can be submitted via the e-comment link at Maui County.us box slash agendas as well. For individuals wishing to testify via Teams, please raise your hand by clicking on the raise your hand button. If calling in, please follow the prompts via phone star five to raise and lower your hand and star six to mute and unmute.