After more than 25 years of delay, the use of a 75-acre agricultural park in Kilauea will be determined by stakeholders with the help of county-hired Kimura International, an O‘ahu-based firm.

The project gained ground when acreage in the Crater Hill area was transferred to the county in the fall of 2006. The donation of the ag park parcel was a condition of development imposed by the Planning Department decades ago.

“We are very pleased to see this project finally move forward after decades of delay,” Mayor Bryan Baptiste said in a statement. “The farming community has been very patient since the County Council accepted this land more than a year ago, and we look forward to engaging them in this process to come up with the best possible plan for the parcel.”

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(Source: Rachel Gehrlei, Kauai Garden Island News)