NORTH SHORE, Hawaii -- The Turtle Bay Resort is proposing a development that would transform not only its own property, but strongly affect the neighboring area as well.

The proposal calls for five new hotels, 3,500 more rooms and condo units. One new hotel would be built on each side of the existing Turtle Bay Resort, which has 500 rooms. Two more will be built along Kawela Bay, which is adjacent to the hotel. Another hotel would be situated near Kahuku Point.

The development is based on an agreement 20 years ago between the then resort owners and the city.

A big plus for the project is the jobs it could create with sugar workers hurting. Del Monte announced earlier this year that the company is shutting down pineapple operations in Hawaii. That would mean hundreds losing jobs.

The hotels will have spectacular views of the coastline.

Fruit stand and farm owners across Kamehameha Highway wonder what the change will do to their livelihood. The highway is just a two-way road in the area.

Schuyler "Lucky" Cole was part of the "Keep The Country, Country" organization that tried unsuccessfully to stop the deal in the 1980s.

"You can't on the one hand create thousands and thousands of jobs and affordable housing, and then on the other hand say it's not going to create any traffic, it's ludicrous," Cole said.

"These new jobs are not going to be adding to the traffic problem," resort spokesman Doug Carlson said. "It's actually going to be going in the opposite direction from where they are going today."

The proposals to take advantage of the deal faces the next hurdle in getting a subdivision permit from the city. If the proposals get all their green lights, construction could begin in about a year, a spokesman said.