Planning Dept “Simplifying” Maui Island Plan

Planning Director Will Spence said Thursday that the changes he’s proposing to the Maui Island Plan would simplify [it]…

…A number of community advocates questioned Spence’s proposed changes, saying he was overriding years of work by groups like the General Plan Advisory Committee and Maui Planning Commission in creating the earlier draft.

“It makes a mockery of the long, dedicated hours GPAC and the Planning Commission put in,” said Irene Bowie, executive director of Maui Tomorrow….

Read Ilima Loomis’ whole article at Maui News