Honua'Ula, formerly Wailea 670 spent six hours in front of Maui County's Land Use committee this week. It is hard to figure out if progress is actually being made or not. Here are some snippets:

Council Land Use Chairman Mike Molina put the Honua'ula project district on hold for three months, giving committee members until June 15 to prepare comments on conditions proposed by the planning staff and developer. Molina said on Thursday that he expects the Land Use Committee to continue its review of the 670-acre residential development in late summer or early fall. His schedule appeared to be timed in part to allow the council members to focus on the 2007-08 county budget presented by Mayor Charmaine Tavares on Thursday. The representative for Honua'ula, former Public Works Director Charlie Jencks, said he was encouraged that there was movement on the zoning application that has been pending for years. "It was rewarding to get to that point with the committee. There are a lot of conditions they need to consider many of which are going to be beneficial to the people of South Maui and Maui County in general," Jencks said on Thursday. "It's a step-by-step process. We take it one day at a time."

That doesn't sound like much progress, does it? It sounds like the primary issues remain widening the Piiliani Highway and a water source to serve the development.