DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND PERMITTING
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of public hearings to be held by the Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP) of the City and County of Honolulu under Special Management Area (SMA) and Shoreline Setback Ordinances, Revised Ordinances of Honolulu Chapters 25 and 26, respectively, as amended, for the following applications at the date and time specified or soon thereafter.
______________________________________________________________
DATE: Friday, June 5, 2026
TIME: 10:00a.m.
PLACE: In-person and Remote Meeting at the Fasi Municipal Building, 6th Floor
Conference Room, 650 South King Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
1) FILE NOS.: 2026-SMA-12 and 2026-SV-I
PROJECT NAME: O’ahu Subsea Cable Telecommunication Project
APPLICANT: Humuhumu Services, LLC and Starfish Infrastructures, Inc.
AGENT: ICF (Tanya Copeland and Alex Bartlett)
LANDOWNERS: City and County of Honolulu, Department of Parks and Recreation
LOCATION: 91-121 Olai Street – Kapolei
TAX MAP KEY: 9-1-026: 027
ZONING: P-2 General Preservation District
REQUEST: SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA (SMA) PERMIT
(MAJOR) and SHORELINE SETBACK VARANCE (SV) to allow the cable landing and the installation of six new subsea telecommunication cables via horizontal directional drilling (HDD) within Barber’s Point Beach Park and the shoreline setback (Project).
2) FILE NO.: 2026-SMA-20 (SF)
PROJECT NAME: New Commercial Building
OWNER: Kyung Chul Shin and Soon Ae Shin
APPLICANT/AGENT: Planning Solutions, Inc. (James T. Hayes and Makena White)
LOCATION: 87-1818 Farrington Highway – Nanakuli
TAX MAP KEY: 8-7-035: 005
ZONING: B-1 Neighborhood Business District
REQUEST: Special Management Area Major Permit to allow the
construction of a new commercial building with a parking lot, caretaker dwelling, and associated improvements on a non-shoreline lot.
______________________________________________________________
The application materials showing the general location and boundaries of the area under consideration are available for review online at https://www.honolulu.gov/dpp/public-input/ (navigate to the Project site using the map), or at the DPP, Data Access & Imaging Branch, First Floor, Fasi Municipal Building, 650 South King Street, during office hours, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. For assistance, please call the DPP Zoning Regulations and Permits Branch at (808) 768-8024, or Land Use Approval Branch at (808) 768-8019.
Attendance at the public hearing is not necessary to submit testimony. Written testimony may be emailed to dpp@honolulu.gov, faxed to (808) 768-6743, or mailed to 650 South King Street, 7th Floor, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. Written testimony must be received by the close of the public hearing on Friday, June 5, 2026. Testimony received by the Department prior to the hearing will be considered in the evaluation of the request.
The public may join the public hearing and offer testimony from a computer, smartphone, or telephone. Visual presentations will be viewable: (1) On the screen situated inside the Conference Room, (2) At https://www.honolulu.gov/dpp/public-input/ (navigate using the map); or (3) via WebEx as follows: All participants must mute their devices until it is their turn to testify.
Join the public hearing from a computer: (Please mute your devices
except to testify)
https://globalpage-prod.webex.com/join
Meeting Number: 2495 236 5895
Meeting Password: dpp1
Join the public hearing from a computer or WebEx smart phone
app: (Please mute your devices except to testify)
Meeting Number: 2495 236 5895
Meeting Password: dpp1
Join the public hearing from a telephone (audio only): (Please
mute your devices except to testify)
+1-408-418-9388 (USA Toll)
Access code: 2495 236 5895
Numeric meeting password: 3771
Note: If you need an auxiliary aid and/or service or other accommodation due to a disability to participate in this event (i.e., sign language interpreter; interpreter for language other than English, or wheelchair accessibility), please call (808)
768-8000, or email your detailed request to dpp@honolulu.gov, at least five (5) business days prior to the meeting. Requests made as early as possible will allow adequate time to fulfill your request.
Dawn Takeuchi Apuna, Director
Department of Planning and Permitting
(SA1526673 5/15/26)





