{"id":16019,"date":"2024-06-11T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T21:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.environment-hawaii.org\/?p=16019"},"modified":"2024-06-11T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T21:22:35","slug":"agency-aims-for-approvals-by-end-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=16019","title":{"rendered":"Agency Aims for Approvals by End of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Hawa\u02bbi Public Housing Authority has partnered with Highridge Costa to develop more than 10,000 new units of affordable housing statewide, including 250 on the Lanakila IV site. And it hopes to have all the issues regarding contamination resolved quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hakim Ouansafi, executive director of HPHA, provided this statement to Environment Hawai\u02bbi<\/em> about the delays, noting that his agency had submitted a long-term environmental hazard management plan to the Department of Health and is awaiting its acceptance. Once the plan is accepted and the DOH issues a \u201cNo Further Action\u201d letter, work can begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HPHA hopes to have entitlements in place by the end of the year, including utility and water commitments and the NFA letter. When asked why this deadline was so critical, Moe Mohanna, president of Highridge Costa, said that the Hawai\u02bbi Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) “accepts applications [for financing] only once per year in February, and evidence of approval for project entitlements (zoning approval\/ compliance or 201H approval) are a basic threshold requirement for an applicant to be considered for a financing allocation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked why the site had been allowed to remain undeveloped for so long, Ouansafi stated that HPHA was still in the early stages of redevelopment plans. \u201cIn March, we met with Mayor [Mitch] Roth\u2019s cabinet to discuss the project and we look forward to sharing our plans with the community. In the fall, we will launch a project website with more details and host a public town hall meeting to discuss the project, answer questions, and gather feedback.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aerial view of the Lanakila Housing site. The shaded area is Phase IV.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Patricia Tummons<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hawaʻi Public Housing Authority has partnered with Highridge Costa to develop more than 10,000 new units of affordable housing statewide, including 250 on the Lanakila IV site. And it hopes to have all the issues regarding contamination resolved quickly. … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[525,338],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-16019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-june-2024","category-land-use","tag-patricia-tummons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}