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Saturday, May 12, 2018 |
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HRS 171-93: Law Allows Swap of Lava-Covered Lots for State Property in Zone 3
By Andrew Walden @ 9:57 PM :: 57588 Views :: Hawaii County , Hawaii History, Land Use
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...After the 1960 Tsunami, homeowners in the destroyed Shinmachi area of Hilo bayfront were given fee-simple lots on newly subdivided state land in Waiakea Uka. Shinmachi is now the site of the Hilo Bayfront Park....
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Thursday, May 10, 2018 |
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How State Government fanned flames of volcano disaster
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:45 PM :: 10462 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Land Use
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...the state originally encouraged the building of homes in this dangerous area by offering lava insurance where no private company would....
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018 |
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HB2748: $580M Inserted at Last Minute for Hanabusa Crony
By News Release @ 3:00 AM :: 6184 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... In 1998 Hanabusa and Nakata teamed up with Mafia Godfather Larry Mehau to get rid of Attorney General Margery Bronster in an effort to protect the corrupt thieving Broken Trustees of Kamehameha Schools--now her Legislators want to give him a big fat stack of money....
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 |
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Green Energy Plan: $2.3B Tax and Rate Hike to Send Even More Money to Elon Musk
By News Release @ 2:10 AM :: 7270 Views :: Energy, Environment, Land Use, Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...Over the past 15 years, the people of Hawaii have paid 260% more for electricity than the US average, while gasoline prices consistently hover close to $1-per-gallon higher. (But we can go even higher)....
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Saturday, April 14, 2018 |
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State Supreme Court to Hear Molokai Ranch Water Case
By News Release @ 1:25 PM :: 5836 Views :: DHHL, Greenmail, Land Use, OHA
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...Joint statement by DHHL and OHA on 1993 water use permit....
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018 |
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HB1481: DelaCruz Gut & Replace to Bypass Opposition to HCDA Control of East Kapolei
By Andrew Walden @ 3:28 AM :: 4607 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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...the same text in SB2525 ran into opposition from several Kapolei-area Representatives....
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018 |
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Bridge Aina Lea: Jury Rejects LUC Taking After 15 Mins Deliberation
By Robert Thomas @ 7:26 PM :: 6065 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Land Use
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...We're guessing both the State and the property owner will likely be taking this case up the chain to the Ninth Circuit....
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018 |
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Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff: 34 Years Later
By Robert Thomas @ 7:14 PM :: 4241 Views :: Hawaii History, Land Use
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...the 34th anniversary of the SCOTUS oral arguments in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff....
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Friday, March 23, 2018 |
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Hawaii Vacation Rentals: Impact on Housing and Economy
By News Release @ 2:50 AM :: 5150 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Tourism, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii is only building half of the units necessary to keep up with demand....
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Thursday, March 22, 2018 |
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SPLC: Legendary resort the site of battle between sovereign citizen, developers and the State of Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 5:52 PM :: 5708 Views :: Kauai County, Greenmail, Land Use
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...activists resort to sovereign citizen tactics in a desperate effort to prevail....
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Thursday, March 15, 2018 |
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Will DLNR Use Sea Level Rise as Excuse to Wipe out Banyan Drive Properties?
By News Release @ 1:11 AM :: 5058 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Land Use, Tourism
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...The purpose of the RFI is to gauge whether there is interest among prospective developers in obtaining a long-term lease of the Site (but check out the terms)....
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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Trask: Coco Palms Occupiers Duped by White Supremacist ‘Sovereign Citizens’
By News Release @ 7:10 PM :: 6531 Views :: Kauai County, Greenmail, Land Use, Tourism
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...Furthermore, according to official court documents of the State of Hawaii, Moses Enoka Heanu, the alleged “Chief Justice” of your “court” is a registered sex offender who was sentenced to five (5) years in prison for three (3) felony counts of sexual assault in the Third Circuit court of the State of Hawaii in 1998....
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Friday, March 2, 2018 |
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Maui Mayor Signs Sea Level Proclamation: County Will Grab for More Oceanfront Land
By News Release @ 8:13 PM :: 5457 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Land Use
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...calls on the Planning Department to propose rule changes to the Maui, Molokai and Lanai Planning Commissions to include sea level rise in their shoreline setback calculations....
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Friday, February 16, 2018 |
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UH Prof: Sustainability Means Cutting off Mortgage Credit so the Little People Can't Buy Homes
By News Release @ 2:34 PM :: 4570 Views :: Environment, Land Use, Cost of Living
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“...By signaling the importance of financial flows we have highlighted a potential leverage point for implementing sustainable policies….”
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Friday, January 19, 2018 |
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Chin's Crackpot Theory: Eminent Domain Abuse, Hawaii Style
By Robert Thomas @ 7:03 PM :: 4542 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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...“No court in the United States has accepted that argument, and no condemning authority has had the chutzpah to make that argument."....
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Thursday, January 11, 2018 |
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HTA Maps: How Many TVRs in Your Neighborhood?
By News Release @ 4:07 PM :: 4511 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Tourism
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...Hawaii Visitor Accommodation Units Surpassed 80,000 Statewide in 2017....
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Friday, January 5, 2018 |
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"Why Isn’t Honolulu Helping Businesses Hurt By Rail Construction?" (Because It Doesn't Want To, And No One Is Making It)
By Robert Thomas @ 3:07 PM :: 4321 Views :: Land Use, Rail
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...the City doesn't really care all that much about these particular businesses or their owners....
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Saturday, December 30, 2017 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Rules Public has Property Right to a Clean Environment
By Robert Thomas @ 7:23 PM :: 6062 Views :: Energy, Environment, Land Use
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...Does the Supreme Court now have three votes to kill the telescope?....
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Saturday, December 30, 2017 |
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Video: "The Future Of Land Regulations And A Tribute To David Callies"
By Robert Thomas @ 7:01 PM :: 3592 Views :: Higher Education, Land Use
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...the William and Mary Law School awards U. Hawaii lawprof David Callies the Brigham-Kanner Prize....
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Saturday, December 16, 2017 |
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AG Chin: Every time your oceanfront property erodes, the State seizes more of your land
By News Release @ 12:59 AM :: 3901 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin issued a formal advisory opinion today stating that when the shoreline migrates landward (or mauka) due to erosion or sea level rise, the dividing line between public and private ownership also migrates mauka....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Saturday, December 2, 2017 |
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Zoning, Land-Use Planning, and Housing Affordability
By Selected News Articles @ 12:35 AM :: 5196 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...regulations have also tended to reduce the supply of housing, including multifamily and low-income housing....
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017 |
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Western Congressional Caucus Backs Review of Obama Tuna Monuments
By News Release @ 1:46 PM :: 3477 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...It is time to bring more jobs and economic freedom to the West....
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
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Monday, August 28, 2017 |
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After Decade of Litigation, Supreme Court Refuses to Order State to Repair Gold Coast Seawalls
By News Release @ 10:59 PM :: 4153 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...The Court ruled the State holds an easement over the seawalls and is not liable for attorneys’ fees....
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Monday, August 28, 2017 |
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Trump has the authority to modify existing monument boundaries
By News Release @ 4:47 AM :: 4219 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...Presidents Bush and Obama mocked the Antiquities Act’s limitation that monuments can only be designated on federal ‘land’ by designating huge ocean monuments....
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017 |
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Want Land? DLNR Will Buy You Some
By News Release @ 4:32 AM :: 3988 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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Grant applications for land acquisition....
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017 |
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OHA seeks community input for its Wahiawā lands master plan
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 3702 Views :: Land Use, OHA
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...Explore the development of compatible agricultural uses and other programmatic initiatives....
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Saturday, July 8, 2017 |
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Economic freedom needed to increase affordable housing
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:31 PM :: 4859 Views :: Jones Act, Land Use, Cost of Living
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Dr. Keli’i Akina gave the following speech on June 30th, 2017, at the 2017 Maui County Affordable Housing Summit, hosted by the Maui Chamber of Commerce and Maui County Department of Housing & Human Concerns....
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Saturday, July 8, 2017 |
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Ige Reappoints Three to LUC
By News Release @ 3:38 AM :: 3049 Views :: Land Use
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...Nancy Cabral (Hawai‘i County), Linda Estes (Kaua‘i County) and Gary Okuda (At-Large)....
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017 |
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Not Satisfied With Merely Taking Land For Rail, Now The City Wants Blood
By Robert Thomas @ 4:36 AM :: 3819 Views :: Land Use, Rail
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...Blood bank sues over city push to take land for rail....
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Thursday, June 15, 2017 |
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Takings: Bridge Aina Lea Suit Dismissed
By News Release @ 1:50 AM :: 4974 Views :: Hawaii County , Land Use
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Hawaii federal judge Susan Oki Mollway yesterday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a private landowner against the State of Hawaii after the State Land Use Commission in 2011 reverted more than 1,000 acres of land in South Kohala on Hawaii island from urban to agricultural use....
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Saturday, June 10, 2017 |
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Hilo: DLNR Land Lease Ends with Demolition of Hotel
By News Release @ 12:53 AM :: 4859 Views :: Hawaii County , Land Use, Tourism
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...prepare for a new phase of de-vitalization of Banyan Drive....
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Thursday, May 25, 2017 |
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The case for short-term rentals
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:37 AM :: 4773 Views :: Land Use, Small Business, Tourism
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...the home sharing economy helps locals deal with Hawaii’s cost of living....
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017 |
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Proposed revisions to Central Oahu Plan available for review
By News Release @ 4:21 AM :: 5063 Views :: Honolulu County, Land Use
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The plan will be presented at the Waipahu Neighborhood Board meeting on Thursday, May 25, at 7 p.m. in the Filipino Community Center....
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Thursday, May 18, 2017 |
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Retaliation: Supreme Court Upholds Hanalei Land Seizure
By Robert Thomas @ 1:57 AM :: 4263 Views :: Kauai County, Land Use
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The case involves three parcels on Kauai -- one of which is owned by a fellow who has been a thorn in the County's side....
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017 |
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Ikaika Anderson Land Use Facepalm
By Robert Thomas @ 2:24 PM :: 4142 Views :: Honolulu County, Land Use
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“The lawyers start rubbing their hands a little bit because the comments are giving them ammunition.”
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Thursday, April 13, 2017 |
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Those Life Saving Facts
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:46 PM :: 6981 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, Land Use, GMOs
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I asked why CFS and other groups like Shaka aren’t informing followers of rat lungworm disease....
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Thursday, February 2, 2017 |
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Zuckerberg Steps In It In Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 1:48 AM :: 3330 Views :: Land Use
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It's always fun to watch one segment of socially conscious progressivism light into another....
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Friday, January 13, 2017 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court: Do County Plans Override Zoning Laws?
By Robert Thomas @ 1:55 PM :: 4731 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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... the parcel is zoned "Hotel" but is designated on the Community Plan as "park" ....
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Saturday, December 31, 2016 |
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CNMI Government Takes House Lot from Owner, Refuses to Pay
By Robert Thomas @ 7:32 PM :: 3920 Views :: Land Use
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...the court also issued a writ of execution, ordering the local branches of the banks in which the CNMI government kept its cash to deliver "all monies and proceeds" to the property owner's lawyer....
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016 |
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Beachfront Property: Hawaii Supreme Court Considers Wipeout Regulatory Taking
By Robert Thomas @ 11:19 PM :: 3860 Views :: Land Use
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...a case to watch being argued next week in the Hawaii Supreme Court....
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Friday, December 23, 2016 |
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State Land Use Commission has not approved housing in the past 3 years
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:48 PM :: 5066 Views :: Development, Land Use
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...the last project to be approved was in 2013....
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Friday, December 16, 2016 |
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Interest in building ohana units rising on Maui
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:32 AM :: 5745 Views :: Maui County, Land Use, Cost of Living
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Instead of spending money on enforcement, it would be better to use resources to expedite the permitting process....
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 |
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Trump Picks Montana Rep Zinke for Interior Secretary
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 8185 Views :: Akaka Bill, Energy, National News, Land Use
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...Rep Ryan Zinke (R-MT) is a member of the House Natural Resources Committee....
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016 |
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HBA Land Use Conference to Focus on Telescope, TOD, and GMOs
By Robert Thomas @ 9:18 PM :: 2979 Views :: Land Use
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"Takings: Regulatory and Physical"
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Thursday, November 10, 2016 |
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DLNR Bails out Insolvent Bishop Museum--Kalauao Valley Land Deal
By News Release @ 3:59 AM :: 4879 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Land Use
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Really Obvious Question: How much did DLNR pay for this 635 acre parcel? --- DLNR isn't telling ....
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Monday, October 24, 2016 |
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Home-Sharing
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:35 PM :: 4603 Views :: Land Use, Tourism
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Mrs. Sandefur will be speaking on Oahu and Maui on October 24th and 31st respectively....
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Friday, October 7, 2016 |
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Victory: Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Haleakala Solar Telescope
By News Release @ 3:01 AM :: 7068 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Higher Education, Land Use, OHA
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By a 3-2 majority the court affirmed the state land board’s decision in 2012 to grant a permit to build the Telescope....
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