Kauanoe O Koloa project has hit a big snag. Issues of permitting, drainage, protected habitat, and preservation of cultural sites subject of hearing this week.
Kauanoe O Koloa project has hit a big snag. Issues of permitting, drainage, protected habitat, and preservation of cultural sites subject of hearing this week.
Seems to me like the locals have ignored basic infrastructure for decades, and that seems to be their own problem.
Developers should bear the cost of upgrading the infrastructure to support the expected increased population and traffic, including roads, water and waste water treatment infrastructure. There should also be appropriate requirements for protecting cultural heritage. Otherwise, Kauai will no longer be Kauai.
I tend to agree, but it also begs the question of where tax dollars from visitors go.
Work continuing despite a stoppage order is very familiar to those of us on Oahu who watch Monster Home builders flagrantly continue building no matter what they’re told to do and there seems to be nothing that can stop them from doing so. The lack of enforcement in this area seems almost to smack of lip service and money under the table if I were the conspiracy type…
Best Regards
There are small commercially available septic systems that could be installed at each condo unit which would eliminate any need for a sewage line.
In short, please don’t visit Kauai.
We live in the adjoining housing development. Work has proceeded loud and strong during the “work stoppage”. All of the upright structures shown in your photo have been erected since the start of the “work stoppage”.
Perhaps it’s time for lawmakers to claw back these land sales and (God forbid) put a moratorium on development until there is sufficient infrastructure in place to handle them. Maybe then, if developers which to proceed, they’ll work collaboratively with counties to help with infrastructure upgrades.
But as the fiasco of Maui’s disposal of Lahaina waste continues to drag on, that’s not likely, given the appalling lack of competency of most county supervisors.
After reading all of the above about the new development hoping to go in near Poipu Beach my thoughts are “We do not need another resort or Condo complex of that size,”
As you mentioned the Native Historical sites, disruption of local flowers and animal,
and the lack of watera d waste water systems and the list goes on.
It is impossible to walk from almost any of the Poipu beaches down to say the IGA store without getting run over by a vehicle. We do not need more cars, trucks or heavy work vehicles on our over worked roads. Again my response is we don’t need this complex. To those who say we need the jobs to support our families I agree.
So very sorry to hear about the death of your friend on Poipu Road. The intersection of Poipu Road and Kiahuna Plantation drive is beyond dangerous – I heard there is a possibility of a roundabout being put there? Of course this development will add more vehicle traffic to this area.
It makes no sense for this development to only have access via a 2 mile backtracking drive from Poipu Road/Kiahuna Plantation Drive. There should have been access via Koloa town – but I suppose the Kiahuna golf community did not want a bypass to Poipu going through their neighborhood – certainly not well thought out.
Yes, and what a joke about having a restaurant there!!
There are so many things wrong about this development but the one humorous thing is “a high end restaurant “ when there are places like The Plantation Gardens that is still closed. Are they impor ting workers?