a 25-lot residential subdivision that would fill in the last undeveloped property, Sunset Estates will develop 25 residential lots

New Sunset Estates subdivision gets permit approval for area in S. Maui
 
Sunset Estates will develop 25 residential lots
reprinted courtesy Maui News 2/18/09
By BRIAN PERRY, City Editor


WAILUKU - The Maui Planning Commission has approved a special management area permit for a 25-lot residential subdivision that would fill in the last undeveloped property along Waipuilani Road in Kihei.

The Sunset Estates Subdivision already is zoned R3 residential, meaning lots need to be at least 10,000 square feet. The 7.21-acre property is on the south side of Waipuilani Road between South Kihei Road and Liloa Drive.

MEH Limited Partnership plans to develop ready-to-build lots for landowners to design their own residences in a project where no homeowners association or common areas are proposed.

"The purpose for this measure is to avoid the complexities, ongoing costs and internal politics that are commonly related to such associations," a Department of Planning report says. Landowners would need to agree to guidelines for home designs to ensure the project "remains at an appropriate scale and context for the surrounding moderately priced, working-class neighborhood."

Those guidelines include:

* Primary homes would be single-story structures to prevent two-story homes from becoming two separate residences - upstairs and downstairs.

* Ohana units would be permitted only over garages.

* All lots would be required to have on-site parking with no street parking allowed.

* No vacation rentals would be allowed.

Instead of a pocket park, the Sunset Estates will have a bicycle-walking path, which would be connected to the Meadowlands subdivision, south of the new development.

Vehicle access will be at two entries along Waipuilani Road.

According to the Planning Department report, the county's Residential Workforce Housing Policy will not apply to the new housing lot subdivision because it received preliminary subdivision approval before the housing policy was adopted. (The policy, which became an ordinance in December 2006, requires developers to provide affordable housing for projects with five lots or more. The project received its preliminary subdivision approval in August 1999.)

The project also may not be subject to the "Show Me the Water" ordinance, which is not applicable to developers who submitted subdivision construction drawings before December 2007. The MEH partnership has represented to the county that it submitted its drawings before then.

The project is in an older area of Kihei on Waipuilani Road where there are no curbs, gutters or sidewalks in the vicinity of the subdivision property. The developers will need to provide a road-widening lot along Waipuilani Road and put in sidewalks and gutters as required by the Maui County Code, according to the Planning Department.

* Brian Perry can be reached at citydesk@mauinews.com.

reprinted courtesy Maui News 2/18/09

 

 

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