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Mufi Hannemann, David Ige and Duke Aiona discuss housing, infrastructure and the governor’s influence on the area under control of state redevelopment district.

UPDATED: Mayor Caldwell unveils a plan that would impose affordability requirements on large residential developments planned throughout Oahu.

While tractors roll along in the shadows of rail pillars, a huge housing development awaits Supreme Court and City Council action.

But some residents fear new rail-driven development could make the neighborhood into “another Kakaako.”

Some Native Hawaiians see the plan as an opportunity to preserve their culture in the gentrified coastal town but many residents fear more tourists and environmental damage.

Residents of upscale development sometimes run into trouble with expansion plans because area was never rezoned.

The board has just four of its nine members, and needs at least five to make a quorum.

Online databases contain much of the information that former members of the Board of Regents and Land Use Commission may have wanted kept confidential.

Just 5 percent of about 4,500 new housing units in Kakaako are affordable for low-income people, according to a state agency. One 204-unit building is the exception.

A November ballot initiative could shut down its biggest employers, but the island’s population is dwarfed by voters elsewhere in Maui County.