KAHULUI—The state Land Use Commission ruled last week that a proposed retail center and housing development in north Kihei are not in compliance with property provisions in place since 1995.

Eclipse Development Group of California will need to wait to see what the commission decides is the next step for the project. A hearing to decide that was not immediately scheduled, reports the Maui News.

The 6-3 vote on Feb.7 was specifically on whether or not the current project meets the conditions imposed by the LUC and not on the merits of the development.

Development plans call for a retail center totaling 700,000 square feet of space and an affordable housing project, and a master planned luxury golf community of the same name above Wailea.

The developers' attorneys argued that there was no limitation placed on the amount of retail that could be developed and that apartment housing is a permitted use in light industrial zoning. Those arguments were challenged by citizen groups contending that there were violations of the original land reclassification conditions.

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