[Metadata] Summary: County Zoning for the Island of Maui as of October 2023. Source: County of Maui. Description: Island of Maui Land Use Zoning Designations, Maui County Code, Chapter 19, Zoning. Created by Maui County Planning Department from various Land Zoning maps and comprehensive zoning ordinances as of October 2023. For more information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/cty_zoning_mau.pdf or contact the Maui County Planning Department at planning@mauicounty.gov or the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.This data layer is intended to be used as a guide for planning purposes only and should not be used for boundary interpretations or other spatial analysis beyond the limitations of the data. Final confirmation of zoning must be provided by the County of Maui Department of Planning. The County of Maui shall have no other liability with regard to the digital zoning map. The County of Maui does not warrant that the map will meet the requirements of users or that the map will be error free, or that map defects will be corrected. The entire risk as to the quality and usefulness of the map and zoning designations and the entire risk arising out of the use or performance of this map and documentation rests with the user. In no event shall the County of Maui, or anyone else involved in the creation, production or delivery of this map, be liable for any damages whatsoever whether in contract or in tort, including but not limited to lost profits, lost savings, lost data, business interruption, computer failure or malfunction, or other pecuniary loss or any direct, indirect or incidental damages or other economic consequential damages, or for any claim or demand against the County of Maui by any other party, arising out of the use or inability to use this map, even if the County of Maui, or anyone else involved in the creation, production or delivery of this map, has been advised of the possibility of such damages.The limitation of remedies described in this Section also apply to any third-party supplier of materials to the County of Maui. The limitations of liabilities of the County of Maui and its third-party suppliers are not cumulative. Each such third-party supplier is an intended beneficiary of this Section.While the County of Maui has made every effort to offer the most current and correct information as possible, inadvertent errors in information are possible and said Zoning Map is not guaranteed and without warranty of any representation. Please contact the Planning Department’s Zoning and Administration Division at (808) 270-7253 if you believe there is an error with the map or have questions or concerns.

[Metadata] 2012 Maui Island Plan Boundaries - Protected Areas Layer. Source: Maui County Planning Department, August 2022. See also Maui Island Plan Agricultural Preserves, Maui Island Plan Growth Areas, Maui Island Plan Growth Boundaries layers.Maui Island Plan Growth Boundaries adjusted to Maui County Finance Department Real Property Assessment Division’s daily parcels early 2022. Some boundaries match Real Property Assessment’s 2022 parcel release but some are aligned to parcels which were refined after that release. Maui Island Plan was passed in 2012. Growth Boundaries, Growth Areas, Protected Areas, and Agricultural Preserves are defined by documents available here: https://www.mauicounty.gov/1503/Maui-Island-Plan. GIS layers are based on the documents but are aligned to match features like parcels, roads, and boundaries visible on Pictometry imagery. For additional information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/maui_island_plan.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.

[Metadata] Maui County Community Plan Area Boundaries; Source: Maui County Planning Department, September 2024. For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/CommPlanBndries_MauCty.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.

This dataset is a map of land use and vegetation for the Island of Maui, Hawaii, circa 2010. This dataset is a modified version of the U.S. Geological Survey LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type map (LANDFIRE.HI_110EVT, Refresh 2008) for the Island of Maui, Hawaii. The LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type map was modified to create this map of land use and vegetation for use in a water-budget model. Modifications included converting the LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type map from a raster to a shapefile format, assigning land-use names, and adding golf-course and crop boundaries.

This dataset describes land cover and vegetation for the island of Maui, Hawaii, 2017, hereinafter the 2017 land-cover map. The 2017 land-cover map is a modified version of the 2010 land-cover map included in the geospatial dataset titled "Mean annual water-budget components for the Island of Maui, Hawaii, for average climate conditions, 1978-2007 rainfall and 2010 land cover (version 2.0)" by Johnson (2017). The 2010 land-cover map was generated by intersecting (merging) multiple spatial datasets that characterize the spatial distribution of rainfall, cloud-water (or fog) interception, irrigation, reference evapotranspiration, direct runoff, soil type, and land cover. Land-cover designations in the 2010 land-cover map were derived mainly from the U.S. Geological Survey LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type map (LANDFIRE.HI_110EVT, Refresh 2008) for the island of Maui. The 2017 land-cover map retains the merged structure of the 2010 land-cover map but includes modifications mainly related to agricultural land use since the release of the 2010 land-cover map. Modifications to the 2010 land-cover map included updating the land cover and vegetation designations, and the polygon boundaries in the 2010 land-cover map to reflect (1) the cessation of sugarcane cultivation by Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company in December 2016, and (2) the agricultural land-use information described in the Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline 2015 map by Melrose and others (2016). These modifications affected about 10 percent of the total area in the 2010 land-cover map. The 2017 land-cover map also distinguishes between (1) forested areas that are within the fog-interception zone, assumed to be at elevations of 2,000 feet and higher on Maui, and (2) forested areas that are below the fog-interception zone. The same distinction was included in the analysis of Johnson and others (2018) and in the spatial structure of the 2010 land-cover map, but was omitted from the land-cover names in the attribute table of the 2010 land-cover map.

[Metadata] Description: Agricultural Land Use Maps (ALUM) for islands of Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii as of 1978-1980. Sources: State Department of Agriculture; Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning. Note: August, 2018 - Corrected one incorrect record, removed coded value attribute domain.For more information on data sources and methodologies used, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/alum.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, HI 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.

While there have been many maps produced that depict vegetation for the state of Hawai‘i only a few of these display land cover for all of the main Hawaiian Islands, and most of those that were created before the year 2000 have very generalized units or are somewhat inaccurate as a result of more recent land use changes or due to poor resolution (both spatial and spectral) in the imagery that was used to produce the map. Some of the more detailed and accurate maps include the Hawai‘i GAP Analysis (HI-GAP) Land Cover map (Gon et al. 2006), the NOAA C-CAP Land Cover map (NOAA National Ocean Service Coastal Services Center 2012), and the more recently released Hawai‘i LANDFIRE EVT Land Cover map (U.S. Geological Survey 2009). However, all of these maps as originally produced were not considered to be detailed enough, current enough, or had other classification issues that would not allow them to be used as the primary base for the Hawai‘i Carbon Assessment. For the Hawai‘i Carbon Assessment we integrated components from several of these previously mentioned land cover and land use mapping efforts and combined them into a single new land cover map (CAH Land Cover) that was further updated using very-high-resolution imagery. The hierarchical classification system of the CAH Land Cover map allows for grouping the mapped units into different configurations, ranging from very detailed plant communities reflecting current conditions to very generalized major land cover units and biomes that represent land use and potential vegetation zones, respectively. The CAH Land Cover classification is hierarchical with forty-eight CAH Detailed Land Cover units which can be grouped into twenty-seven CAH General Land Cover units, thirteen CAH Biome units, and seven CAH Major Land Cover units (Appendix 1). The CAH Detailed Land Cover units generally correspond to the rUSNVC Association level, the CAH General Land Cover units are related to the rUSNVC Group level, and the CAH Biome units connect to the rUSNVC Subclass level.

[Metadata] Agricultural Land Use (2020). Source: The University of Hawaii at Hilo Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization (SDAV) Laboratory in conjunction with the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture, 2021. Updated February 2022.The 2020 Update to the Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer was created to provide a snapshot of contemporary commercial agricultural land use activity in Hawaiʻi. It is based upon an assemblage of geospatial datasets, primarily high-resolution WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 satellite imagery (2018 – 2020) used as a base layer for digitization. Additional datasets used in this work include GIS layers provided by the state of Hawaiʻi, Office of Planning Statewide GIS Program and other data provided by major land owners and managers. County Real Property Tax and Agricultural Water Use data were also used to identify commercial farm operations. Not all properties that receive County agricultural tax assessment rates or reduced water cost for agricultural uses were mapped due to the small scale of some of their operations. These data sources were used to verify mapped commercial farms and identify operations that might have been missed using the imagery alone. Digitized crop locations and boundaries were verified through a combination of on-the-ground site visits, meetings and presentations of draft layers with agricultural stakeholders and landowners, solicitations through a publicly accessible online web mapping portal, and spot- checking using Google Earth™ and other high resolution imagery sources. The 2020 Update to the Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer represents our best efforts to capture the scale and diversity of commercial agricultural activity in Hawaiʻi in 2020 and should be used for informational purposes only. Note: February 2022: Maui County added, Several additional minor updates have been made to the original 2020 Update to the Hawaii Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline that was published in May 2021. Note: April 2022: Several users of the data discovered that the original 2015 Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer and the 2020 Update to the Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer did not overlay properly, with an offset between the layers of 10 feet to 40 feet, depending on the area. As a result, both the original and the updated layers have been republished, and now overlay as they should. The underlying data itself has not changed. Please note - if you download data from the State's geoportal (https://geoportal.hawaii.gov/), the data is exported in WGS84 coordinates, although it is stored internally (in the State’s geodatabase), served in the State's web services (https://geodata.hawaii.gov/arcgis/rest/services) and made available in the State's legacy download site (https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis/download-gis-data-expanded/) in UTM / NAD 83 HARN coordinates. For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/aglanduse_2020.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.