(BIVN) – Planning continues for the Honomū Subsistence Agricultural Homestead Community.
The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands’ is holding its second round of community meetings. They met with beneficiaries in Keaukaha on Tuesday night, and their future neighbors at the Honomū Gym on Wednesday.
The Department has also created three Conceptual Plan Alternatives for the project: Alternative A, Alternative B, and the no-action Alternative C.
ALTERNATIVE A: Alternative A maximizes subsistence agriculture lots with 460 one-acre parcels. Like Alternative B, it provides a 20-acre site next to the ʻAkaka Falls State Park for commercial use.
Alternative B provides a “variety of agricultural lease and land use options”. It sets aside 20 acres for “Community Use”, as well as 45 acres for “Supplemental Agriculture”, where lessees might expand to larger lot, commercial operations. Alternative B will offer 100 to 340 fewer lots than Alternative A due to larger lot sizes (3-acre lots will be available), the removal of irregular areas from the subsistence agriculture inventory, and special set-asides for stormwater detention and buffer zones.
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STORY SUMMARY
HONOMU, Hawaii - The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands met with residents at Honomu Gym to go over alternatives for the homestead project.