Nuʻuanu-Punchbowl

ZIP codes: 96813, 96817

The board: Neighborhood Board No. 12 at the Neighborhood Commission Office: members, agendas and minutes for every year on file.
Meets: Third Tuesday of the month, 7:00 p.m., Kapālama Hale, Room 153 (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)
The stored copy lists archived agendas only through 2024, so it may date from 2025.
Agendas by email: The city sends this board's agendas and minutes by email. On NCO's form, tick “Neighborhood Board #12 Nuuanu-Punchbowl Agenda & Minutes”.
City Council district: 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.
The Nov. 3 ballot: Every contest a voter here may see, with the candidates
High school district: Roosevelt
ZIP codes it overlaps: 96813, 96817

The board's 3 subdistricts

1. Punchbowl; 2. Pacific Heights; 3. Nuʻuanu Valley

Names come from the city's GIS layer, which prints them without ʻokina or kahakō. Where the official gazetteer carries the same place name, the Ledger prints the gazetteer's spelling; a name the gazetteer does not carry is left as the layer printed it. The layer's own spelling: 1. Punchbowl; 2. Pacific Heights; 3. Nuuanu Valley.

What's happening here

From the Ledger's last brief for this area, written Sept. 20, 2026; newer items are listed below.

On Sept. 21 and 22 the Hawaiian Homes Commission is asked to find no significant impact for the Papakōlea Community Development Corporation's Native Hawaiian education and community center at Pūowaina. [source]

DPP's map lists a cluster housing permit for five two-unit homes and one single-unit home at 2041 Pūowaina Drive. [source]

The Ledger's brief, written Sept. 20, 2026 from the records linked (its own dated page). 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.

Sept. 21

Hawaiian Homes Commission

Declare a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) the Papakōlea Community Development Corporation...

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.

Public schools

Which school serves an address

Kawananakoa Middle School Middle · grades 6-8
49 Funchal Street, Honolulu · 808.307.0300 · school website · Roosevelt complex

Lincoln Elementary School Elementary · grades K-5
615 Auwaiolimu Street, Honolulu · 808.587.4480 · school website · Roosevelt complex

Nuuanu Elementary School Elementary · grades K-5
3055 Puiwa Lane, Honolulu · 808.595.5422 · school website · Roosevelt complex

Pauoa Elementary School Elementary · grades K-5
2301 Pauoa Road, Honolulu · 808.587.4500 · school website · Roosevelt complex

Stevenson Middle School Middle · grades 6-8
1202 Prospect Street, Honolulu · 808.587.4520 · school website · Roosevelt complex

Public schools whose grounds fall in this board area, from the State of Hawaiʻi GIS public schools layer, read Nov. 5, 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 Nuʻuanu-Punchbowl (HIZ036), 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 Nuʻuanu-Punchbowl (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

61 incidents reported to the Honolulu Police Department in the 90 days to Nov. 4, 2026 (86 in the 90 days before). Most common: theft/larceny (14), vandalism (11), motor vehicle theft (10). 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: 129 reports. Most common: Other (26), Traffic Signal (9), Street Sign (8), Beach/Park (8), Feral Chicken Nuisance (6).

ZIP 96817: 101 reports. Most common: Illegal Dumping for Residential (10), Other (9), Pothole (8), Street Sign (7), Debris/Litter/Dumping (7).

Honolulu 311 reports from the city's open data, Oct. 6, 2026 to Nov. 4, 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

Every meeting and agenda

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

No file on DPP's public-input map falls inside this board area, as of Nov. 5, 2026.

From the Department of Planning and Permitting's public-input page, read Nov. 5, 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

No item on the committee agendas read so far prints a tax map key in this area.

From City Council committee agendas the Ledger has read into items (55 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 (8 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

Sept. 21held

Hawaiian Homes Commission

Declare a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) the Papakōlea Community Development Corporation (PCDC) Native Hawaiian...

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 1,511 permits in this area from Jan. 1, 2020 through July 1, 2025, worth $99,249,914 of work as filed; the median permit was $15,000. Of those, 65 were for a new building, 623 carried the solar flag and 15 the accessory dwelling unit flag. Across the whole file: 7,073 permits, $391,665,663.

By year

Year	Permits
1999	1
2000	5
2001	17
2002	53
2003	100
2004	203
2005	307
2006	327
2007	310
2008	300
2009	304
2010	335
2011	362
2012	638
2013	515
2014	351
2015	384
2016	344
2017	242
2018	174
2019	290
2020	301
2021	289
2022	281
2023	291
2024	226
2025	123

What the applicants called the use

Single Family Dwelling: 965
SFD: 193
SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING: 62
RESIDENTIAL: 30
SCHOOL: 21
Dwelling: 18

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 code	People	Households	Median household income	Owner-occupied homes	Median age
96813	26,766 ±1,394	12,761 ±562	$91,690 ±$7,323	6,941 of 12,761	42.8
96817	55,492 ±2,008	19,797 ±690	$75,476 ±$3,562	8,820 of 19,797	45.8
All of Oʻahu	1,001,146	338,868	$106,195	202,604 of 338,868	39.8

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 Nuʻuanu-Punchbowl are made for the whole island. Those records have one home each: City Council and committee agendas and every open land-use file.