MANOA, Hawaii (KHON2) -- A total of 172 homes could be built on the property of St. Francis School in Manoa -- which shut down in 2019 -- but community members have concerns and the project is not a done deal just yet. Download the free KHON2 app for iOS or Android to stay informed on the latest news Avalon Group bought the site in April 2024 for $23.5 million. Company president and CEO Christine Camp said it took months and needed clearance from the Catholic Church. "As well as the Pope's approval to release and sell this asset so they can fund the retirement of the nuns," Camp said. Residents protest plans for housing development at former Saint Francis School Camp's proposed development sits at the end of Pamoa Road, residents along the narrow street said rush hour is already bad enough. "It starts like 4:45 a.m. or earlier and it's still going strong at 6:15," said Pamoa Road resident Ellen Sofio. "You'll see that it's at a tipping point, this project is going to put it over the edge." "If their trash vehicle is coming up and down the lane, it's going to cause a lot of delays," said neighbor Kurt Takara. "We're going to lose, you know, parking will be much more difficult as well as the volume of traffic up and down the street." Camp pointed out that each proposed single-family home will have a two-car garage and enough space for two cars in the driveway, so spillover into the surrounding community should not be an issue. Hawaii Pacific University currently uses the campus gym for athletics, there is also a swim school that Camp said provides lessons to over 200 families. "We're proposing 93 residential homes. And if the ADUs were taken by every one of those homes, that's 172 homes," Camp said, "that's far less than what the current use is. Any given time, this property sees about a thousand cars a day." "We see HPU Athletics use it, but at most it's less than 100 people that actually use it. So, I disagree that there's 1,000 -- number one, that there's a thousand users -- and if they build this 172 houses that the actual traffic will go down," Takara said. The Manoa Neighborhood Board passed a resolution that urged the City's Department of Planning and Permitting to deny the development application, a public hearing will be held on Monday, Oct. 7 and the Board chair said it will be filled with community opposition. "Almost everyone from the public I've talked to who is who lives in the area, who'd be affected by the development, has been opposed to it. But, uh, you know, we got to see what people say," Manoa Neighborhood Board chair Dave Nagaji said. Check out more news from around Hawaii Click here for more information about Aria Lane. The public hearing will take place on Monday at 10:30 a.m. in the Fasi Municipal Building, 6th Floor Conference Room