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The Honolulu City Council on Wednesday furthered its consideration of a plan by the University of Hawaii to enlarge its Manoa campus boundary so it can expand student housing and an entrepreneurship program.
The Council sent a resolution for approving the change back to its Zoning and Planning Committee, which had passed the resolution June 17.
Public testimony on Resolution 21-127 has been overwhelmingly in favor of the plan, which would establish a complex to house 373 students and an expanded Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship on the site of two historic former Atherton YMCA buildings at the corner of University Avenue and Metcalf Street just beyond the Ewa edge of campus.
The plan would reuse the three-story Charles Atherton House and replace the three-story Mary Atherton Richards House with a new six-story building.
The $70 million venture would be paid for by a private development partner, Hunt Development Group, which would own and operate the facility on land retained by the UH Foundation, a nonprofit fundraising arm of the university that bought the 1-acre property in 2017 from the YMCA of Honolulu for $8 million.
Correction: The City Council is still considering the UH's live-learn-work plan. An earlier version of this story and its headline said the City Council had extended its review process.
