Remarks by Kauanoe Batangan
24 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“I don't even think that was the NPO. If I remember correctly, that was the mid-range plan, which is done by the state.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 6, 2026
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Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 6, 2026
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“Or order of preference amongst the given list.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 6, 2026
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“Aloha wina ala. Hafa adai kakou. I'm alone in a private workspace.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yes, sir. Thank you. So for the planning department, in your conversions, were there any properties in which their rights were diminished as a result of the conversion from the old classification to the new classification?”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“They were all if anything was diminished, it was because of additional staff or additional community input, and those would be noted in the spreadsheet.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay. But that one's not just because of the change in classification. That was because of consultation with the landowner, right?”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“I just wanted to make sure that there wasn't anything impacted as a result of the administrative conversions. Thank you, Jerry.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. If I remember correctly, there was a bill referred to Councilmember Cook's committee regarding these six TMKs. There was a bunch of cleanup that needed to be done because a bunch of them were still zoned interim. Can I confirm with the Planning Department that small town designation aligns with the proposal before the why committee? Because I just want to make sure I know that you have been working with the applicant on it, and I just want to make sure that the, um, change from T O C to small town still is in alignment with with that zoning work that you guys have been doing.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Well, I just wanted to make, I had a feeling that the small town center was still pretty flexible. I just wanted to make sure that since the department was working with the applicant and the department had initially recommended different zoning, the new one, I mean, a different community plan designation that the new one still works. So thank you, Chair.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. So that last sentence refers to Amalka North-South Collector Road. And I just want to point out that elsewhere in the plan, we call it a bypass. Those are two very different things and we got to be consistent. Seeing this difference now is helping me realize where I've been a little uncomfortable with talking about it because I didn't realize that people have been thinking about it in different terms. So a bypass, by definition, bypasses community. So it doesn't actually have ingress and egress to residential neighborhoods. If you think of the West Maui one, you'll notice…”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“I guess I had always assumed that they were asking for a bypass because that would more effectively serve as an escape route. The collector road would be more susceptible tool to bottlenecks, especially in high demand situations. And so Hearing the community feedback as to what they were asking for, I had assumed bypass. When I had read it elsewhere, I thought that was confirmed. hearing what the CPAC chair is saying now, you know, I'm starting to question that. But I think it's worth further consideration, given that there are different goals and different purposes for each. And, you know,…”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. I didn't realize that the plan was calling for two. I had always thought it was one and that they were just being used interchangeably. So that may have just been me, you know, overlooking some details. But I'd like to add then that there's nothing stopping us from putting both on the plan map. You know, One would be largely government funded and would serve as a bypass and evacuation. The other would be more to serve the proposed new developments. We just need to be comfortable with the cost because these are both significant public infrastructure projects.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay, and if that's the requirement, then whose kuleana would it be? Because normally a master plan or a project district is a single landowner. In this case, it would be several. And it's not clear how we would require them to address those criteria.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay, so it is only two landowners. Yes. Which essentially means that before one can move, the other will have to also comply.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay, so back to the planning department. So the expectation would be that since there's only two landowners, they would each go through the uh entitlement process which would include all of those component pieces and that essentially before one can build the other has to comply with their land use entitlements an environmental review”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Oct 2, 2026
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“Mahalo, Chair. Sure thing. Mahalo, Chair.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Sep 24, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. I would say stating Department of Management is fine. We're very integrated between the Office of Recovery and the MD's office. Yeah.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Sep 24, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. Just a question on the funding. Is that, is there any, I guess, how did the 1.5 million number come about? Sure. Is that for multiple years?”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Sep 24, 2026
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“Yeah, I think. Thank you, Chair. I think, um, there's a lot that will go into that number depending on what we decide to do. And I know that MIMA plays a critical role in our partnerships with community resiliency hubs. So I know MIMA may have feedback on that, but I don't have any concerns with the language.”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Sep 24, 2026
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“I think MEMA would be appropriate. I know these, I mean, this is, you know, multiple different building inventories, but MEMA operationally is the one that's tracking”
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) · Sep 24, 2026