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Hanapēpē-ʻEleʻele: the brief, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026

Hanapēpē Valley on Kauaʻi.
File photo: Hanapēpē Valley on Kauaʻi. Image: Frank Schulenburg via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

On Sept. 8 the Planning Commission held a hearing on bills that would move about 14.9 acres near Hanapēpē from the state agricultural district to urban, rezone them from agriculture to residential, and amend the West Kauaʻi Community Plan to match. [source: the Planning Commission's hearing notice for Sept. 8, 2026]

Basis. Written by the Ledger in a session on Sept. 19, 2026 from the records linked in each sentence; it says what was on the record that day, in plain words, and does not predict outcomes or take sides. What has happened since is on Hanapēpē-ʻEleʻele's page. Corrections: the corrections log.

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