If you review the timeline of the Wailea 670/Honua’ula project from its inception to today, these Bad Faith Developers have demonstrated a troubling pattern of shifting promises, inadequate planning, and disregard for community concerns. The most recent amendments proposed to the Maui County Council continue to place Maui’s environment, history, and affordable housing at risk.

Make your voice heard! Sign this petition to demand that the Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use (HLU) Committee hold the developer accountable to their promises & reject the proposed amendments. These changes make the project worse for Maui’s people.

The two bills on the Committee Agenda will drastically reduce the number of affordable homes promised to our community and allow developers to sidestep key infrastructure obligations. Check our website for more details

The HLU Committee plans to decide on this issue Monday 12/2 at 1:45pm and no oral testimony will be accepted. You can still submit written testimony to HLU.committee@mauicounty.us

Please ask the Council to make it clear that any reduction in affordable housing is unacceptable. Sign the petition to stand with the hundreds of Maui County residents who testified against these amendments. Watch the public hearing from 11/25

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An Overview of the changes:

Key promises made in 2008 included:

• 700 affordable housing units, 700 market-rate homes (50% affordable)
• 450 affordable units within the project itself
• Widening Piʻilani Highway to four lanes before any building
• $5 million for public parks upon stage 2 approval (approved in 2022)
• Historic preservation and habitat conservation safeguards

Many of the council members who narrowly approved the project at the time, noted these key promises were a major factor in approving the project.

If the Maui County Council approves these proposed amendments, those key promises would be reduced to:

• Remove the requirement that 450 affordable homes be in the project
• Only 288 affordable housing units, 862 “market-rate” homes
• Delay the widening of Pi’ilani Highway indefinitely and adding language that could pass that responsibility onto the Dept of Transportation. The DOT currently has no plans to widen the highway.
• Removing the promised $5 million donation to support County Park improvements (that is already 2 years past due) and propose giving land and cash to an unspecified non-profit to build a vaguely-defined cultural/educational/community center instead.

Why it's important:

Approving these drastic reductions to affordable housing promises would set a dangerous precedent for large projects in West Maui that promised 50% affordable, such as Kaʻanapali 2020, and send a message to developers that our legislators lack the political will to hold them accountable.

Every affordable home that is replaced by a market priced home will likely sell for $3 million or more - in other words, luxury homes that Maui’s people cannot afford. According to the UHERO Housing Factbook, 50% of all homes in South Maui are owned by out-of-state homeowners and these luxury developments cater to out-of-state homeowners, not local residents.

Maui has successfully built 50% affordable and even 100% affordable housing developments. Developer Honua’ula Partners and their advocates argue that the project "cannot possibly be profitable" unless they increase the luxury homes in the project, but if that is the case - why did they promise to build 700 affordable units in the first place?

These Bad Faith Developers continue to argue that these changes “make the project better,” but we as the signers of this petition can see that these changes only make the project better for the developer

at the expense of the people of Maui. The developer stands to profit by at least $1 million for each affordable home they can convert to market rate.

If the Council approves this amendment, they will be giving the developer $162 million dollars, and taking away 162 affordable homes.