HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Supreme Court invalidated the state land use commission’s 2010 approval of a project to build thousands of homes on central Oahu farmland.
HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Supreme Court invalidated the state land use commission’s 2010 approval of a project to build thousands of homes on central Oahu farmland.
Another media outlet reported the court ruled one commissioner who voted for the project should not have been allowed to remain on the commission after his nomination for a second term was rejected by the state Senate.
The Koa Ridge project calls for more than 3,000 homes on a 576-acre tract of land between Waipio and Mililani.
The developer, Castle &Cooke, said in a statement the court’s ruling was based on a technicality, and the merits of the project were never in question. It plans to move forward with the project based on a subsequent approval of the project by the land use commission in 2012.