By BRIAN PERRY Maui News
The state Land Use Commission voted 6-1 Monday to approve a reclassification of a little more than 545 acres in Central Maui to make way for A&B Properties’ plans to develop the Wai’ale master-planned community.

The vote came after hours of public testimony, oral arguments from attorneys and short deliberations by commission members at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Alexa Higashi meeting room.

Public testimony began with labor union representatives providing their support for the development of 2,250 homes, commercial areas, a middle school, public facilities and parks in an area bisected by East Waiko Road, with Kuihelani Highway to the east and Honoapiilani Highway and Waikapu to the west…

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