For agencies & planning departments · Hawaiʻi

Screen parcels at portfolio scale — with every conclusion cited to its source.

KILO gives planning departments and agencies a fast, transparent, parcel-level read on infrastructure and cultural-resource risk — built entirely from public data, defensible in a public process.

The problem

Pre-screening is manual, slow, and easy to miss.

Counties, DLNR, and state agencies move ground across capital-improvement projects, land acquisitions, and permit pipelines spanning thousands of parcels. Identifying which of those carry cultural-resource or infrastructure sensitivity — before a project is scoped and funded — is largely manual. A missed signal becomes a §6E-42 surprise after the budget is set.

A public process also needs its reasoning to be auditable. A risk read that cannot show its sources is hard to defend.

Portfolio scale

One read for one parcel, or a screen across a pipeline.

KILO returns a parcel-level infrastructure and cultural-resource risk read, with a confidence breakdown, in seconds — and the same engine runs across a batch of parcels. Use it to triage a CIP pipeline, screen an acquisition list, or flag the parcels in a permit queue that warrant early SHPD coordination.

Every conclusion is traced to a published source — Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS, USDA soils, FEMA, DOH, the HCPT inventory. Nothing is a black box; the reasoning is reviewable.

The signal stack — publicly-published sourcesSensitivity tier, not a presence claim
HOLIS parcel dataTMK boundaries, ownership context, zoning (Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS).
Substrate geologySoil series, texture, drainage class — the documented setting for inadvertent discoveries (USDA SSURGO).
Ahupuaʻa boundariesAuthoritative ahupuaʻa polygons (OHA via Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS).
Historic-property densityHeiau, loko iʻa, and named-place references from published academic sources.
DOH HEER contaminationSite Discovery, Assessment & Remediation docket near the parcel (DOH HEER).
Transit-Oriented DevelopmentHART walkshed + TOD overlays — and the §6E-42 review screen they trigger.
Every input is a published agency dataset or academic source. Some carry a score contribution, others are surfaced as cited context — either way, the basis for the score is reviewable.
What it is — and isn't

A pre-consultation screen, not a substitute for review.

KILO surfaces the regulatory cascade a parcel triggers — HRS §6E-42 review, the TOD-specific §6E-42(d) and (h) pathways added by Act 160 (2025), SMA and conservation-district requirements — so an agency can anticipate the process rather than discover it. It does not replace SHPD review, agency consultation, or the Section 106 process for federal undertakings; it tells you, early, where those will be substantive.

By policy, KILO does not ingest, aggregate, or surface any data that localizes iwi kūpuna — from any source. It uses what records-holders publish; it does not rebuild what HRS §6E-43.5(f) requires them to redact.

How it works

Three steps, from one parcel to a pipeline.

01
Submit the parcels
One TMK or a batch — a capital-improvement pipeline, an acquisition list, or a permit queue.
02
Review the cascade
The HRS §6E-42 review pathway each parcel triggers, every conclusion traced to a published dataset.
03
Coordinate early
Flag the parcels that warrant SHPD coordination before a project is scoped, funded, and committed.
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