The Hawaiʻi Ledger Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026

Oʻahu · Neighborhood Board No. 11

Ala Moana-Kakaʻako

The board
Neighborhood Board No. 11 at the Neighborhood Commission Office: members, agendas and minutes for every year on file.
Meets
Fourth Tuesday of the month, 6:00 p.m., Makiki Christian Church (from a stored copy of NCO's page for the board, which the Ledger's page reader returned Sept. 19, 2026; the copy carries no date, so confirm the schedule against the month's agenda; NCO's calendar carries each month's agenda and any recess or cancellation notice)
Agendas by email
The city sends this board's agendas and minutes by email. On NCO's form, tick “Neighborhood Board #11 Ala Moana-Kakaako Agenda & Minutes”.
City Council districts
5, Scott Nishimoto; 6, Tyler Dos Santos-Tam (the city's district layer, read Sept. 19, 2026; all nine districts)
District 6 is on the ballot Tuesday, November 3, 2026. What the ballot decides.
High school district
McKinley
ZIP codes it overlaps
96813, 96814
The board's 4 subdistricts

1. Kaheka; 2. Rycroft; 3. Ala Moana; 4. Kakaako/Kewalo Basin

Names come from the city's GIS layer, which prints them without ʻokina or kahakō.

What's happening here

On Sept. 24 the City Council's zoning committee takes up a resolution approving the conceptual plan for a mixed-use project at 1450 Ala Moana Boulevard, on 187,174 square feet inside the Ala Moana transit-oriented development plan area; the applicant is BSC Acquisitions II, LLC. [source]

DPP's file describes the project as a 38-story, 418-foot hotel with 291 rooms and a 17-story tower with 145 market-rate and 69 affordable rental apartments; the file and the resolution print different parcel numbers (2-3-038:014 and 2-3-038:041). [source]

The YMCA of Honolulu has asked to rezone its 1.77-acre parcel at 401 Atkinson Drive from high-density to medium-density apartment use. [source]

The Ledger's brief, written Sept. 20, 2026 from the records linked. Briefs are written by the Ledger in a session from the records linked in each sentence, and dated. They say what is on the record, in plain words; they do not predict outcomes or take sides. The full list for each area follows below the brief.

Coming up: 1 item on agendas and notices ahead.

Honolulu City Council, Zoning and Planning
Oʻahu planning file, on DPP's map
Oʻahu planning file, on DPP's map

Followed here: Affordable housing, across the islands

See what is on the record near a particular address · New on the record across Hawaiʻi

Every record the Ledger reads that places an item in this board area by its tax map key or map point, newest and upcoming first, from all sources at once: county agendas and notices, state boards and the Environmental Notice. The sections below break it down by source.

McKinley High High · grades 9-12
1039 South King Street, Honolulu · 808.594.0400 · school website · McKinley complex

Public schools whose grounds fall in this board area, from the State of Hawaiʻi GIS public schools layer, read Sept. 20, 2026: the department's own names, grades, complexes and contact details. Charter schools are marked. Private schools are not listed. Which school serves a particular address is a separate question, answered by the department's attendance areas: look up an address.

Weather and ocean alerts

NWS Honolulu

Checking the National Weather Service for alerts in effect…

Ocean water advisories on Oʻahu

Checking the Department of Health…

Read live when this page opens: the National Weather Service's alerts for the forecast zone covering Ala Moana-Kakaʻako (HIZ033), and the state Department of Health Clean Water Branch's open advisories (brown water, sewage spills, high bacteria) for the island, which the department names by beach or coastline rather than by area. Nothing here is stored or rewritten; each agency's own wording and dates are shown.

State highway lane closures

HDOT roadwork

Checking the Department of Transportation's closure schedule…

Read live from the state Department of Transportation's lane closure map layer when this page opens: approved closures on state highways in and near Ala Moana-Kakaʻako (within the area's bounding box, so a closure just outside may appear), from now through the next seven days, in the department's words. County streets are not included. Schedules can change without notice and all work is weather permitting, the department says.

Police reports

By block

813 incidents reported to the Honolulu Police Department in the 90 days to Sept. 19, 2026 (773 in the 90 days before). Most common: theft/larceny (338), assault (100), vandalism (98). Reports by block and by type.

Reports to police as HPD's open data records them, not findings or arrests; no one is named.

What neighbors reported to the city

ZIP 96813: 113 reports. Most common: Other (22), Street Sign (9), Homeless – Clean Up (8), Homeless – Encampments (7), Debris/Litter/Dumping (7).

ZIP 96814: 98 reports. Most common: Beach/Park (12), Homeless – Beach/Park (11), Homeless – Living in Vehicle (7), Trees – Park & Street (5), Other (5).

Honolulu 311 reports from the city's open data, Aug. 21, 2026 to Sept. 19, 2026, counted by ZIP code; ZIP codes do not follow board boundaries, so each line describes the ZIP. Counts only: no address, no description, no report number. Request types are the city's own. Categories the city labels “Homeless” count calls made to the city, not people: they say how often neighbors reported something, not how many people are unhoused, and the state's point-in-time count is the source for that. Reports about crime are not counted here.

On the board's agenda

The board at NCO

No agenda for this board is on file yet. The Neighborhood Commission Office sends each board's agendas by email; the Ledger will carry them here, in the office's words, as they arrive.

Land-use files open in this area

All of Oʻahu
2026-ZCH-1Zone Changes and DBAs

2026-ZCH-1

DPP public-input map · the full notice

2026-PDP-1Other

1588 Ala Moana

Public Hearing Date: : 5/8/26, 10:00 a.m. at the Fasi Municipal Building, 6th Floor Conference Room (650 South King St.) For video conference details, please contact dpp@honolulu.gov

DPP public-input map · the full notice

From the Department of Planning and Permitting's public-input page, read Sept. 20, 2026. A file is placed in this area when DPP's map point falls inside the board's official boundary. The map shows applications open for comment, not every permit. The Ledger has not reviewed the application materials.

Before the City Council

Council agendas
Committee on Zoning and Planning · RESOLUTION 26-171
Approving a conceptual plan for an Interim Planned Development-Transit (IPD-T) Permit to redevelop 187,174 square feet of land zoned BMX-3 Community Business Mixed-Use District within the Ala Moana Neighborhood Transit Oriented Development Plan area with a mixed-use development project, located at 1450 Ala Moana Boulevard, and identified as Tax Map Keys 2-3-038: 041. (Applicant: BSC Acquisitions II, LLC) (Transmitted by Communication D-504[26]) (Current Deadline: 12/24/26)

From City Council committee agendas the Ledger has read into items (2 so far), in the council's words. An item appears here only when it prints a tax map key that falls in this board area, or names a department file mapped here.

In the Environmental Notice

Every item

No item in the issues read so far prints a tax map key in this board area.

From the State of Hawaiʻi's Environmental Notice (7 issues read), in its words. An item appears here only when it prints a tax map key that falls in this board area.

Before state boards

All state boards

No state board item read so far prints a tax map key in this board area.

From state board agendas the Ledger has read (4 so far), in the agencies' words. An item appears here only when it prints a tax map key that falls in this board area.

Building permits here

Every board area

The city issued 638 permits in this area from Jan. 1, 2020 through July 1, 2025, worth $985,604,981 of work as filed; the median permit was $70,000. Of those, 6 were for a new building, 22 carried the solar flag and 0 the accessory dwelling unit flag. Across the whole file: 3,565 permits, $2,925,082,122.

By year
YearPermits
19991
20011
200220
200386
2004131
2005199
2006206
2007151
2008135
2009114
2010188
2011208
2012169
2013181
2014180
2015256
2016185
2017191
2018154
2019171
2020143
2021111
2022109
2023104
2024132
202539
What the applicants called the use
  • Apartment: 58
  • Office: 56
  • APARTMENT: 38
  • OFFICE: 33
  • Restaurant: 22
  • Single Family Dwelling: 19

The city's file records the use as each applicant typed it, so the same use appears under several spellings.

Counted from the city's static permit file (2005 to June 30, 2025), placed by the tax map key each permit carries; 2026 permits are in HNL Build and not in any open file. Counts and totals only: the Ledger does not publish a permit's address, applicant or contractor. How the count is made.

Who lives here, by ZIP code

ZIP codePeopleHouseholdsMedian household incomeOwner-occupied homesMedian age
9681424,689 ±1,85213,010 ±838$77,768 ±$10,1266,523 of 13,01044.2
9681326,766 ±1,39412,761 ±562$91,690 ±$7,3236,941 of 12,76142.8
All of Oʻahu1,001,146338,868$106,195202,604 of 338,86839.8

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area, read through the Census Reporter API. These are survey estimates; ± is the 90% margin of error. ZIP code areas do not follow board boundaries, so each row describes the ZIP, not the board area. A ZIP is shown when at least a tenth of it lies inside this area.

The island-wide record

Oʻahu has one city government, so most decisions that reach Ala Moana-Kakaʻako are made for the whole island. Those records have one home each: City Council and committee agendas and every open land-use file.

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