Pāʻia Sugar Mill Redevelopment rezoning

Longtime Pāʻia figure asked the committee to support the Bills 109 and 115 zoning changes, appearing in person.

A Vermont workforce-development leader said the project mirrors a similar successful manufacturing training center he built, and strongly supports the rezoning.

A former county staff planner said the 1995 community plan always intended industrial and business uses at the site, and called the Light Industrial rezoning appropriate.

Supported the ideas but urged more Native Hawaiian resources in the conversation, saying the approach risks repeating a colonizing pattern; offered his own plastic-reclamation proposals.

Called in by phone questioning the land's royal patent history and colonial-era land title, and critiquing 'workforce development' framing.

A Pāʻia native said the mill was the heartbeat of the town and supported giving the historic site a second chapter with local jobs and businesses.