#Andrea Kealoha
Four Seasons wins SMA permit after Maui Planning Commission backs off property-wide water monitoring
The Maui Planning Commission voted 5-1 Tuesday to grant a special management area use permit for the Four Seasons Resort Wailea’s $16.3 million project to make exterior renovations, including new swimming pools. But the approval came after legal concerns compelled the commission to back off attempts to impose property-wide monitoring of the resort’s water usage.
From story to public art: Introducing the 2025 cohort of Hui Mo‘olelo
The sixth Hui Mo‘olelo cohort has completed a weeklong storytelling training designed to preserve local voices and inspire public art projects on Maui.
Planning panel OKs rebuild of smaller Front Street home amid precedent-setting concerns
The Maui Planning Commission approved a special management area permit Tuesday for a somewhat scaled-back reconstruction of an oceanfront home on Front Street property owned by a retired Boeing executive and his wife, Stanley and Dilara Deal. In the end, the most hotly disputed issue: the size of the home was reduced about 10% from […]
Lahaina rebuilding dilemma: Commission debates parking lot rezoning for Moku Roots
After three failed attempts to reach an agreement, the Maui Planning Commission finally secured a 5-2 vote Tuesday recommending rezoning of a Front Street lot crucial for customer parking for the new Moku Roots vegan restaurant planned for the former Chart House site in Lahaina. The Aug. 8, 2023, wildfire destroyed the iconic restaurant along […]
Maui Planning Commission defers action on precedent-setting Lahaina home rebuild
The Maui Planning Commission is wrestling with a precedent-setting decision on the first special management area permit for reconstruction of an oceanfront Front Street home destroyed in the August 2023 Lahaina wildfire, after concluding public testimony Tuesday.
Maui Planning Commission recommends approval of Honuaʻula project condition changes
By a 5-2 vote, the Maui Planning Commission is recommending approval of proposed amendments to project district zoning conditions attached to development of the controversial Honuaʻula master-planned community in South Maui. After a meeting recess on March 11, the commission passed a main motion on March 25 to approve all amendments proposed by the Maui […]
Here comes Round 2 for Maui’s vacation rental phase-out bill
Round 2 in a battle over Mayor Richard Bissen’s proposed phase-out of approximately 7,000 transient vacation rentals in Maui County’s apartment-zoned districts will move tomorrow to a different venue and have a duration estimated at only one hour.
Maui College scholar chosen to present post-wildfire biomedical study at national conference in Washington D.C.
Deardorff will present “Microbes as Human Indicators of Human Health Risk after the Lahaina Wildfires” to an audience of biomedical professionals at the 2024 National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) Conference in June.
Preliminary data shows impacts of wildfire on Lahaina coastal waters
Preliminary data on coastal water quality monitoring in West Maui was presented Wednesday at a public speaker series featuring Andrea Kealoha, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Marine Resource Council to present preliminary coastal water quality data following Lahaina wildfires
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council will host the March edition of its “Know Your Ocean Speaker Series” featuring Andrea Kealoha, assistant professor of the Department of Oceanography at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, on Wednesday, March 6 at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom.
