Daily Archives: January 1st, 2009
Yesteryear 2008
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The state Commission on Water Resource Management was active all year on Maui, culminating in September with a precedent-setting order to restore 12.21 million gallons a day of water into eight East Maui streams.
That was far from the last word.
Yesteryear 2008
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Two major developments that had long been knocking at the doors of the County Council were approved in 2008.
Honua'ula / Wailea 670 and Makena Resort are project districts established in the Kihei-Makena Community Plan, with the Makena Resort approved since 1978.
Yesteryear 2008
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Stymied in its efforts to develop a 600-acre area at Laau Point as a high-end rural residential project district, Molokai Properties Ltd. opted to shutter its operations.
An environmental impact statement on a proposed Molokai Ranch Community-Based Master Land Use Plan was withdrawn in late 2007, when it became clear to MPL that the state Land Use Commission would reject it.
Yesteryear 2008
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Maui residents had long known fundamental changes were under way at Maui Land & Pineapple Co., but the faltering efforts to maintain its agricultural base came to a head in 2008.
In July, the company announced it was cutting 274 positions - 204 from Maui Pineapple Co. and 46 and 24 positions respectively from its Kapalua Resort and community development divisions.
Yesteryear 2008
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Even in early 2008, the visitor industry was expecting a slowdown from the record business of 2007. But nobody expected the screeching halt that began in late March when first Aloha Airlines and then ATA folded.
Besides hundreds of jobs lost directly, the reduction in airline seats made it harder for tourists to get to Maui.