Hoopili

From dKosopedia

Hoopili, a proposed development of 1,600 acres in Ewa, would be one of the largest planned communities on Oahu. The planned mass transit line would run through the community. 10,000 to 15,000 homes are planned.

The Schuler Division of D.R. Horton Inc. has bought a 1,600-acre parcel of former sugar cane land from Campbell Estate for about $71 million in March of 2006.

Groundbreaking could be in 2010 and the project could take 20 to 30 years to complete.

A Honolulu Star-Bulletin editorial provides more infromation on Hoopili:

The project is intended to replicate a small-town feeling by mixing business and residential units, most of them multifamily, instead of building bedroom communities where people drive to and from work and shopping malls.

Streets will be narrower to slow traffic, and emphasis will be placed on creating a community in which it is safe to walk and ride bicycles. Stores, restaurants, businesses, industrial areas and offices would provide employment opportunities so residents can stay closer to home.

Hoopili would blend with other development in the works, including a West Oahu campus of the University of Hawaii and residential plans by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

It would fit in well with the city's mass transit project, which will run a line and transit stations through Hoopili, allowing residents an easier ride to town and back.

Reclassification of the land, now in cultivation of diversified crops, will be the project's initial hurdle, although the city's designation is urban. Another sticking point could be the availability of water resources.

As for infrastructure, developers say the city's expansion of the Honouliuli sewage plant would accommodate the project's needs. Moreover, its plans for building schools could help the Department of Education ease the district's shortage of classroom space. [1]