Land Use

For more than 10 years, a disagreement, and now a lawsuit, has continued concerning the ownership of, and public access to, an obscure trail crossing privately owned lands of Haleakala Ranch....

• DATE: Wednesday, January 08, 2014
• TIME: 10:30 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 016, State Capitol

FEMA's maps govern whether home and business owners are required to buy flood insurance....

The court concluded that the commissioner did not qualify as a valid holdover ....

This decision also reflects that the Recktenwald Court is continuing the Moon Court's policies of keeping the door to the courthouse doors opened as wide as possible....

The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued its latest opinion in the apparently eternal metaphysical question of the circuit courts' appellate jurisdiction to review decisions under the Hawaii Administrative Procedures Act....

On January 8 and 9, 2014, the Seminar Group is putting on what we hope will become a regular event - the Hawaii Agriculture Conference....

Usually, in disputes about who owns oceanfront property (in Waikiki, the really nice part of Waikiki, down on the Diamond Head side), each party claims ownership....

...impacts to gross state product are negative (up to -$63 million)....

The amount of money necessary to buy a 1,000 square-foot apartment in Dallas would only buy a 460 square-foot apartment in Honolulu....

...after the Council adopts a resolution to take property, the city administration must within 90 days start the condemnation action....

"Hawaii is unquestionably vulnerable to changes in climate such as rising temperatures, droughts, flooding, sea level rise, coastal erosion and ocean acidification.” -- Abercrombie

Here's the Response to Application for Writ of Certiorari by the State of Hawaii, which opposes the State's cert app....

The rub is that here, it is the State of Hawaii that is claiming the interest, the right to mineral and metallic mines (including geothermal rights) on several large parcels....

Past classes of Rose Fellows have tackled challenges including revitalization of Detroit’s Livernois Avenue....

Attorney Robert Thomas of Pacific Legal Foundation and Grassroot President Dr. Keli’i Akina discuss the nature of individual rights and the role of property....

The cost of owned housing rose 75 percent more in areas of higher poverty....

there is a glaring paradox as observers decry the shortage of affordable housing ... while at the same time prevent the development of additional affordable housing....

DLNR is seeking new projects for its Hawai‘i Forest Legacy Program....

four bills related to land preservation, emergency medical services, small boat harbors and the Kahoolawe Island Reserve....

What's the difference, if any, between a "cemetery" and a burial....

State Land Conservation Fund to support the protection, through acquisition, of lands....

the State of Hawaii's attempted land grab would have undermined the sanctity of all Land Court titles....

...the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed three tree snail species and 35 plant species on the island cluster of Maui Nui in Hawaii as endangered ....

the "private attorney general" doctrine...allows a prevailing party to recover fees and costs....

...the case seemed like a good vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the pretext-in-eminent-domain issue it teased us with in Kelo....

"Can it be that the idiots who evidently run the Hawaii Business magazine have never heard about the principle that statutes have to be constitutional?"

...these parcels will add approximately 22,500 acres of land to the 1,700 acres of Galbraith Estate agricultural land in Central Oahu....

...the Pacific Islands Parks Act of 2013, would direct the National Park Service to complete studies of three designated sites in the state of Hawai‘i....

All we have to do is pass the bill unamended, and we can move the PLDC repeal along to the final step. And then Senator Solomon announces she want to amend the bill....

Scott Bullock, the Institute for Justice lawyer who argued Kelo will be speaking next Monday at the University of Hawaii School of Law ....

...the environmental lawyers upped the ante by calling Callies a liar and a sell-out....

The Democratic Party has two reliable groups of adherents: the rich and the poor...Both groups have little use for the middle class....

Across the country, more than 75,000 buildings sit vacant or underutilized....

...In "City followed law in issuing Hao Street development permit," he makes some good points we don't usually see being made by government officials....