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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 |
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Hawaii Agriculture Conference, January 8-9, 2014
By Robert Thomas @ 3:51 PM :: 5871 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use, GMOs
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On January 8 and 9, 2014, the Seminar Group is putting on what we hope will become a regular event - the Hawaii Agriculture Conference....
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Friday, December 6, 2013 |
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Hawaii Trial Court: Seawall No One Wants Belongs To State
By Robert Thomas @ 9:15 PM :: 3920 Views :: Land Use
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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....
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Sunday, November 17, 2013 |
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UHERO: Biofuel Scheme Enriches Landowners, Soaks Consumers
By UHERO @ 6:32 PM :: 5660 Views :: Energy, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...impacts to gross state product are negative (up to -$63 million)....
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
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State Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Geothermal Rights Case
By Robert Thomas @ 9:37 PM :: 4573 Views :: Energy, Land Use
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declined to review the Intermediate Court of Appeals' decision in In re Campbell, the case involving Land Court registration (Torrens title) and mineral and metallic mining rights....
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Thursday, November 7, 2013 |
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How Differences in the Cost of Living Affect Low-Income Families
By News Release @ 1:47 PM :: 5567 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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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....
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 |
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Honolulu Charter Amendment: Seize Land Within 90 Days of Council Vote
By Robert Thomas @ 1:16 PM :: 3534 Views :: Land Use
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...after the Council adopts a resolution to take property, the city administration must within 90 days start the condemnation action....
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Monday, November 4, 2013 |
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State: Geothermal Rights Case 'is no minor land dispute'
By Robert Thomas @ 5:31 PM :: 4959 Views :: Energy, Land Use
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What's so important about the State's claimed reservation of mineral and metallic mines that had made it put up this kind of resistance?
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Friday, November 1, 2013 |
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Obama Sticks Abercrombie on 'Climate Preparedness' Taskforce
By News Release @ 10:59 PM :: 4623 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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"Hawaii is unquestionably vulnerable to changes in climate such as rising temperatures, droughts, flooding, sea level rise, coastal erosion and ocean acidification.” -- Abercrombie
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013 |
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Campbell Estate Files Response to State in Geothermal, Mineral Rights Case
By Robert Thomas @ 4:17 PM :: 4355 Views :: Energy, Land Use
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Here's the Response to Application for Writ of Certiorari by the State of Hawaii, which opposes the State's cert app....
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013 |
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Supreme Court Asked: Who Owns Geothermal Rights in Hawaii?
By Robert Thomas @ 6:29 PM :: 5885 Views :: Energy, Land Use
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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....
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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ULI Fellowship: Caldwell to Select Land Use Challenge
By News Release @ 11:17 PM :: 6201 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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Past classes of Rose Fellows have tackled challenges including revitalization of Detroit’s Livernois Avenue....
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Saturday, September 21, 2013 |
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Life, Liberty and Property: Robert Thomas Talks To Grassroot Institute
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:03 PM :: 4755 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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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....
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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Study: Smart Growth Produces High Housing Costs
By NCPA @ 3:34 AM :: 5438 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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The cost of owned housing rose 75 percent more in areas of higher poverty....
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Sunday, September 15, 2013 |
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Questionable Paradox Exists for Affordable Housing
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:01 AM :: 6111 Views :: Land Use, Taxes, Cost of Living
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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....
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Thursday, August 22, 2013 |
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013 |
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Got Land? DLNR Wants to Give You Money
By News Release @ 7:44 PM :: 4917 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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DLNR is seeking new projects for its Hawai‘i Forest Legacy Program....
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Friday, June 28, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Signs Four More Bills, Defends Shark Fin Ban
By News Release @ 10:33 PM :: 4684 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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four bills related to land preservation, emergency medical services, small boat harbors and the Kahoolawe Island Reserve....
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
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Supreme Court to Review Kawaiahao Church Cemetery Case
By Robert Thomas @ 1:43 AM :: 6552 Views :: Akaka Bill, Land Use, OHA
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What's the difference, if any, between a "cemetery" and a burial....
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Friday, June 14, 2013 |
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Want Land? DLNR Will Buy it for You
By News Release @ 10:53 PM :: 3887 Views :: Land Use
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State Land Conservation Fund to support the protection, through acquisition, of lands....
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Friday, June 14, 2013 |
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Hawaii Appeals Court Thwarts State's Massive Land Grab
By Robert Thomas @ 8:06 PM :: 6183 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use
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the State of Hawaii's attempted land grab would have undermined the sanctity of all Land Court titles....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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38 Hawaiian Species Are Endangered, Agency Says
By Selected News Articles @ 3:02 PM :: 4515 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...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 ....
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Monday, May 6, 2013 |
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Lodestar: Plaintiff Attorneys Awarded Fees in Rail Iwi Case
By Robert Thomas @ 10:16 AM :: 7665 Views :: Development, Judiciary, Land Use, Rail
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the "private attorney general" doctrine...allows a prevailing party to recover fees and costs....
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Sunday, April 28, 2013 |
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SB237 Would Give DOE Unfettered Power to Lease Public School Land
By Selected News Articles @ 9:38 PM :: 5672 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Land Use
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“Notwithstanding sections 171-13 and 302A-115, or any other law to the contrary, the department may lease public school land...."
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Saturday, April 27, 2013 |
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ALERT – Upcoming Votes on Exemption Bills
By News Release @ 12:22 PM :: 4936 Views :: Development, Land Use
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SB 1207: Exempts the Department of Transportation from any permitting or site plan approval requirements established for lands in the Conservation District, for any work involving submerged lands....
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Friday, April 26, 2013 |
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500 Petition Against School Lands Bills
By News Release @ 8:52 AM :: 5748 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Land Use
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... The following petition was heard last night (Thursday April 25, 2013) in Senate Chambers ....
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Monday, April 22, 2013 |
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Petition Seeks Defeat of Three PLDC-Clone Bills
By News Release @ 4:58 PM :: 6388 Views :: Environment, Development, Land Use
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...House Bill 70, Senate Bill 1207 and Senate Bill 1171 separately serve to keep PLDC objectives alive and operating....
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Sunday, April 21, 2013 |
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How A&B Wins Big From Environmental Litigation
By Andrew Walden @ 3:08 AM :: 12699 Views :: Environment, Development, Greenmail, Land Use
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Why would one of the state’s largest developers fund so-called anti-development groups?
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Thursday, April 18, 2013 |
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Property Seized by Mayor: Supreme Court Declines to Hear Guam Case
By Robert Thomas @ 1:15 AM :: 4767 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use
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...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....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
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SB 1171 – Phased Archeological Inventory Surveys
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 6470 Views :: Development, Land Use, OHA
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SB1171 was submitted in response to a recent Hawaii Supreme Court decision. The City had argued that the Rail Project could conduct the Archeological Inventory Survey (AIS) in phases....
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Friday, April 12, 2013 |
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“Let ‘Em Eat Cake” Comes to Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 1:03 PM :: 5733 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use
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"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?"
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
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Legislature Repeals the PLDC
By News Release @ 1:55 PM :: 4956 Views :: Development, Land Use
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...the law's no-bid contract provisions, the slant towards developing public resources instead of conservation, and the creation of a semi-autonomous agency exempted from routine oversight....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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Land Use: Making an Environment for Those With Means
By Robert Thomas @ 1:05 PM :: 9874 Views :: Environment, Development, Judiciary, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...Others can live in Hong Kong-style apartments so I can enjoy my place in the country....
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Friday, March 29, 2013 |
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Honolulu Rail and the Uniform Relocation Act
By Mark Murakami @ 12:54 AM :: 6196 Views :: Land Use, Rail
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Because the HART rail project will involve federal funds, federal laws and regulations provide property owners (and their tenants) with additional statutory and regulatory protections....
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
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ICA Hears Case Challenging State Ownership of Mineral, Geothermal Rights
By Robert Thomas @ 4:09 AM :: 6614 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use
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HAWICA Appeal: Is A Mineral Right An Inherent Servitude, Or Must It Be Reflected In ‘Torrens Title’?
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 |
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Senate Resolution 133 Urging the State to Purchase Land from Dole Food Company
By News Release @ 1:06 PM :: 5239 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use
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...these parcels will add approximately 22,500 acres of land to the 1,700 acres of Galbraith Estate agricultural land in Central Oahu....
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
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Guam Mayor Seizes Neighbor's Land for Driveway
By Robert Thomas @ 11:34 PM :: 4479 Views :: Land Use
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...an Agana, Guam property owner is alleging that a taking of his residential property so that his neighbor (the former mayor of Agana) could have a driveway....
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
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Schatz Bill Would Expand National Parks in Hawaii, Pacific
By News Release @ 12:43 AM :: 6960 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation, Land Use
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...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....
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
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Legislative Maneuver Sends PLDC to Secret Conference Committee
By Selected News Articles @ 5:14 PM :: 5895 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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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....
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Friday, March 15, 2013 |
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UH Federalist Society: "Litigating for Liberty: Non-traditional Public Interest Law."
By Robert Thomas @ 1:34 PM :: 5529 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use
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Scott Bullock, the Institute for Justice lawyer who argued Kelo will be speaking next Monday at the University of Hawaii School of Law ....
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 |
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Enviro Lawyers Off Target With Criticism Of Callies, Says Callies
By Robert Thomas @ 4:33 PM :: 7141 Views :: Environment, Judiciary, Land Use
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...the environmental lawyers upped the ante by calling Callies a liar and a sell-out....
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Monday, March 4, 2013 |
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How Liberals Live
By NCPA @ 1:20 PM :: 6593 Views :: Democratic Party, Land Use, Cost of Living
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The Democratic Party has two reliable groups of adherents: the rich and the poor...Both groups have little use for the middle class....
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Monday, March 4, 2013 |
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Mismanaged Federal Properties Cost Taxpayers Billions
By NCPA @ 1:13 PM :: 4501 Views :: National News, Land Use
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Across the country, more than 75,000 buildings sit vacant or underutilized....
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Sunday, March 3, 2013 |
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HNL Planning Director: "Public, Along With Private Property Rights, Are Our Top Priority"
By Robert Thomas @ 3:28 AM :: 5277 Views :: Honolulu County, Land Use
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...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....
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Sunday, March 3, 2013 |
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Video: The PLDC And Property Rights In Hawaii - A Panel Discussion
By Robert Thomas @ 3:20 AM :: 5376 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... University of Hawaii Law School panel about "The PLDC and Property Rights in Hawaii"....
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
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Status Of Appeal Of Land Use Commission’s Koa Ridge Approval
By Robert Thomas @ 12:15 PM :: 6803 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use
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...it is difficult if not impossible to overturn a land use district boundary amendment as contrary to IAL designation, when it does not yet exist...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
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Upcoming Event: The PLDC and Property Rights in Hawaii
By Robert Thomas @ 3:01 PM :: 5101 Views :: Land Use
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 from 7:15 - 8:30 p.m., at the University of Hawaii Law School ....
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Monday, February 18, 2013 |
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Residences at Aina Haina: Jeff Stone's Plans in Wailupe Valley Opposed
By Selected News Articles @ 7:38 PM :: 10841 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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Jeff and his wife Laurie Stone contributed $3000 to Kirk Caldwell's recent Mayoral campaign....
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Sunday, February 17, 2013 |
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Do Property Rights Matter When the Environment is Going to Hell in a Handbasket?
By Robert Thomas @ 1:49 PM :: 5298 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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Presented by the Environmental Law Program and the Federalist Society at 12:15 p.m. in CR1 at UH Richardson Law School Thursday, February 21....
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Saturday, February 9, 2013 |
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Sen Thielen’s PLDC Repeal Bill Gutted and Replaced With ‘Recreational Renaissance’
By Selected News Articles @ 10:54 PM :: 5338 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...Somebody is playing a joke on Sen Thielen, making her oppose her previous proposal....
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