LIHU‘E — The county Planning Commission in 1989 allowed a temporary cement batch plant facility to operate on the North Shore. The commission granted several extensions over the past 21 years, but the plant hasn’t moved to a permanent location.
LIHU‘E — The county Planning Commission in 1989 allowed a temporary cement batch plant facility to operate on the North Shore. The commission granted several extensions over the past 21 years, but the plant hasn’t moved to a permanent location.
With a deadline to cease operations by Dec. 31 approaching, the commission last week gave Glover Honsador yet another year to move.
The Princeville cement batch facility is located across the entrance to Anini Vista subdivision, on the makai side of Kuhio Highway. It produces approximately 15 truckloads of cement each month, which are used primarily by local contractors, according to the Planning Department evaluation.
If the plant ceased operations, cement services to the North Shore area would be eliminated until a new facility would become available, county planner Lisa Ellen Smith said. The quality of mixed cement begins to deteriorate after approximately 90 minutes.
Attorney Walton Hong said Glover Honsador has secured a site for the relocation of the current operation with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. The new site would be in Anahola.
The department recommended the commission give Glover Honsador an extension until June 30, 2011, but after pleading the company’s case, Wong was able to convince the commission to extend the permit until Dec. 31, 2011.
Wong’s reasoning was that a one-year extension would give enough time for Glover Honsador to develop the new site.
The initial permits for the Princeville facility were granted to Princeville Corporation. In 2004 Glover Honsador took over the operations of the facility.
Upon leaving the Princeville site, Glover Honsador is supposed to restore the site to the condition it was before it was originally occupied.
