The 2025 South Maui Community Plan (SMCP) has approved approximately 8,300 homes in South Maui for future development.

Infrastructure Issues

• Traffic - widening the Piilani - who, when, how much?

• Emergency egress is woefully inadequate for fire, hurricane, tsunami, etc.. Makena would be blocked in worse than any other community because of their location as the furthest point out.

Water

• The Kamaole aquifer has reached 90% Sustainable Yield (SY) of its 11 MGD requirement by the State.

• Future Developments will not have access to the Kamaole aquifer at least in the  next three years.

  • If the Developers propose to use alternative water technologies such as Reverse Osmosis (RO), this technology uses a tremendous amount of energy and requires approximately three gallons of source water to make one gallon of potable water.. So, if a unit (home) needs 500 Gallons Per Day (GPD) of potable water, then the water source needs to provide 1,500 GPD. With the addition of 1,000 (homes) units, this translates to 1.5Million GPD from the water source. Discharge of wastewater from the RO process creates another unaddressed challenge; huge ecological impacts due to the saline byproducts.