Big development meetings on Kauai today. Will the crowd be as feisty as when the  governor’s held his last neighbor island listening session?

From our Capitol Watch blog:

From The Garden Island:

Kaua‘i residents will be faced with two meetings today regarding two developments that may significantly alter the island’s natural beauty, while bringing many jobs to the community. One meeting concerns a proposed development on Hanalei Bay and Hanalei River ridge, and the other concerns a large subdivision across Kealia Beach, on the north end of Kapa‘a.

In the morning, at a meeting in Lihu‘e, the Kaua‘i Planning Commission’s Subdivision Committee will decide on the fate of a request for an unprecedented eight-year extension to subdivision permits to 2,029 acres of prime agricultural land across Kealia Beach, on Kaua‘i’s Eastside. …

On the North Shore, at the request of the Hanalei to Ha‘ena Community Association, a team from Ohana Real Estate Investors (Civil Beat Publisher Pierre Omidyar is the company’s principal investor) will make a public presentation at 6 p.m. today at the Hanalei School Cafeteria. (Civil Beat reporter Nathan Eagle will be there.)

The presentation will cover the company’s plans to develop roughly 63.6 acres of lands, zoned hotel and resort with some of it in conservation, adjacent to and north of the Hanalei River and northeast of Hanalei Bay. Read the full story.

Photo of Halanei Bay courtesy  iShot71.