Land Use

...Search as you might, there's nothing there that helps or hurts in the water law department....

...Over $26 Million of State Portion of Ceded Land Revenues were not Transferred to the State General Fund in a Timely Manner....

...the blame can be placed squarely on high housing prices....

...While Crawford has said he is one of 130 Tiyan landowners deprived of property, Highsmith estimates that 3,000 former landowners are in a similar position....

...The sense of urgency is palpable in these meetings....

...Government and the Cost of Living: Income-Based vs. Cost-Based Approaches to Alleviating Poverty....

...Welcome to newspeak, takings edition.... 

...the county to obtain approximately 8,764 acres of WWC land in the West Maui watershed area along with its water conveyance system. The proposed acquisition price is $9.5 million....

...During the meetings participants will engage in a “game” that sparks discussion about the best way to transition O‘ahu to a clean energy future and meet stated goals under the Paris climate agreement....

...Finally politicians are doing something about affordable housing--they're demolishing it....

...Hawaii has the nation’s worst property rights record followed closely by California....

...The land was zoned for single-family residences, but the County of Maui decided it should be used as a public park. Instead of buying the land, however, the County wielded its regulatory authority to prevent the Leones from developing their property in any way....

...in 1969 the only places in America where housing cost more than three times incomes were Hawaii and Stamford, Connecticut. I don’t know why Stamford was on the list, but Hawaii had passed legislation strictly regulating where people could build homes in 1961....

...Support legislation for disclosure for private property and public offerings located in areas with potential exposure to sea level rise....

...opening up more land for housing should also be on the table, if policy makers want to ease pressure on the housing market....

...August 3rd marks three months since the eruption began....

...the jury (after deliberating for a grand total of 15 minutes) held the State of Hawaii Land Use Commission liable for a regulatory taking....

...Remember that case from earlier this year where the Hawaii Supreme Court held that for purposes of Hawaii's Due Process Clause, the Sierra Club has a property right in a "clean and healthful environment?"....

... Propose revisions to shoreline rules and regulations to incorporate sea level rise ....

... Fines in excess of $236,000—still accruing at $1000 a day—and a lawsuit--are forcing into the open a 13-year battle over alleged violations of numerous State and County permitting and land use laws on a Huelo, Maui shoreline property owned by Hawaii Sierra Club Vice Chair and Maui Tomorrow President Lucienne De Naie ....

...The central Public Land Trust Information System (PLTIS) available only to State and County agencies since January 2015 becomes accessible to anyone June 29, 2018....

...The list can be used by the public, property owners, realtors and the County for a quick determination about whether short-term occupancy – defined by the county as fewer than 180 days – is allowed without a permit....

...You will be tested on the catechism of the State Religion....

...how the state government’s housing policies have gone up in flames....

...Little Pink House opens on June 8 at the Palace Theater in Hilo....

...“I, David Y Ige … hereby authorize and invoke … Section 171-85, et. seq., Hawaii Revised Statutes, disposition to victims of natural disaster….”

...in order to facilitate the establishment of temporary emergency shelters on specific sites approved by the County, and independently supported by private organizations....

...“essentially half of the species” identified by Fish and Wildlife Service officials as “recovered” never should have been listed in the first place....

...Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawaii....

...affordable housing in Hawaii, how it works, whether it is legal, and how it could be done better....

...June 11, 2018, 6:30pm....

...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....

...the state originally encouraged the building of homes in this dangerous area by offering lava insurance where no private company would....

... 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....

...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)....

...Joint statement by DHHL and OHA on 1993 water use permit....

...the same text in SB2525 ran into opposition from several Kapolei-area Representatives.... 

...We're guessing both the State and the property owner will likely be taking this case up the chain to the Ninth Circuit.... 

...the 34th anniversary of the SCOTUS oral arguments in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff....

...Hawaii is only building half of the units necessary to keep up with demand....

...activists resort to sovereign citizen tactics in a desperate effort to prevail....

...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)....

...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....

...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....

“...By signaling the importance of financial flows we have highlighted a potential leverage point for implementing sustainable policies….”

...“No court in the United States has accepted that argument, and no condemning authority has had the chutzpah to make that argument."....

...Hawaii Visitor Accommodation Units Surpassed 80,000 Statewide in 2017....

...the City doesn't really care all that much about these particular businesses or their owners....

...Does the Supreme Court now have three votes to kill the telescope?....

...the William and Mary Law School awards U. Hawaii lawprof David Callies the Brigham-Kanner Prize....