As Amazon plans to build a massive storage facility in Kapolei – taller than the zoning of their property’s parcel currently allows – it will have to overcome several bureaucratic hurdles.
Its first public test was facing a skeptical Kapolei neighborhood board, where Amazon representatives made their case Wednesday night after first presenting to them in December.
The facility would be the largest private investment ever in West Oʻahu, Amazon representatives said. It would cost $600 million and have 2.8 million square feet of floor space, the equivalent of almost 50 football fields. While employees are not saying how tall the facility would be, they say it would surpass the parcel’s 60-foot height limit, requiring the company to ask the city for a zoning change…