The Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority is closing in on a final plan for Kalaeloa but major infrastructure needs mean it will be years before new development can begin.

The state agency charged with redeveloping land around a World War II-era Navy base in West Oʻahu continues to amend its master plan to meet the demands of Hawaiʻi developers eager to start building in one of the island’s growth areas.

So far those changes are all aimed at accelerating construction of a district that would be six times the size of Kakaʻako in a region that could house nearly 1 in 6 Oʻahu residents in the next two decades. They include eliminating minimum requirements for off-street parking and allowing smaller homes to be built.

Developers, including Hunt Companies Hawaiʻi and Gentry Homes, are push

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