Maui County Leads Nation in Supporting Transition to Organic Agriculture with New Law
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The Explainer: Paid Parking for Visitors is Coming—How Will it Affect You?
Park Maui—a new parking management program that officials assure us will generate revenue from visitors and improve access to parking for residents.
County Offers to Swap Infrastructure for Affordable Housing
A proposal by Maui County Mayor Michael Victorino would have the county shoulder the cost of building a required wastewater treatment facility and road improvements in exchange for doubling the number of low-cost workforce housing units in the planned Waikapū Country Town development.
Why Are Maui’s Playgrounds Getting so Expensive?
The county spent over $1 million on playground improvements in South Maui in 2021 and the trend is continuing. “It is kind of astounding how much they cost, you could build an entire home with that.”
Building Maui
Is Maui destined to rely on imports to build its homes or do local materials stand a chance?
Up a steep driveway in Kīpahulu, past fruit trees and dense jungle, outcroppings of bamboo begin to appear, stitched into the mountainside. Dusky black stalks and tea-green shoots adorn the landscape at Whispering Winds, a 230-acre farm cooperative where Rich von Wellsheim has been growing bamboo for nearly two decades.