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Monday, February 22, 2021 |
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SCOTUS Refuses to Hear Bridge Aina Lea Case
By Robert Thomas @ 4:00 PM :: 752 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Land Use
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"... If there is no such thing as a regulatory taking, we should say so ...."
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Wednesday, February 3, 2021 |
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So-Called 'Kaka'ako Land Co' Loses in Lawsuit
By News Release @ 5:27 AM :: 841 Views :: Honolulu County, Land Use
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... A trial was held in November challenging Kakaʻako Land. Co.'s (KLC) ownership of Kakaʻako private roads ....
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021 |
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Bridge Aina Lea: 9th Circuit Allows Case to go Forward
By Robert Thomas @ 4:42 AM :: 1005 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Land Use
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... The district court's judgment is reversed, case remanded for the merits ....
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Saturday, January 23, 2021 |
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"25 Years of PASH"
By Robert Thomas @ 11:00 AM :: 734 Views :: Greenmail, Land Use
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... in the PASH case the Hawaii Supreme Court concluded that subject to certain qualifications, the Hawaii Constitution allows native Hawaiians to exercise traditional practices, even on private property ....
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Monday, January 4, 2021 |
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The greenies’ tales about Hawaii’s vanishing beaches miss one important fact
By Selected News Articles @ 11:00 AM :: 1359 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...I don’t have an opinion about sea walls. I do have an opinion about connected, rich people buying oceanfront property on sinking islands even as they try to sell us on the idea that an ocean rise clocked at less than 2 mm per year is what really matters – and that we should give up fossil fuel to save their beaches....
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Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
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Hawaii Officials Promise Changes to Seawall Policies
By Selected News Articles @ 6:09 PM :: 883 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... Officials now pledge action, after a Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica investigation ....
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020 |
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DPP seeks comments on Primary Urban Center plan ‘sneak preview’
By News Release @ 8:03 PM :: 597 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... The “PUC DP All Policies Summary” is a complete collection of the draft goals and policies that will make up the final PUC DP ....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020 |
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Report: Oahu affordable housing shortage worsened in FY 2019
By News Release @ 11:52 PM :: 681 Views :: Honolulu County, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... DPP has released its Annual Report on the status of land use on O‘ahu for fiscal year ending 2019 ....
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Thursday, November 5, 2020 |
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DLNR Steps Up Efforts to Manage Homelessness Across Public Lands
By Selected News Articles @ 9:20 PM :: 999 Views :: Environment, Homelessness, Land Use
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...“I don’t see any end in sight, really, because it just seems to have gotten worse"....
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Friday, October 2, 2020 |
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Rein in this red-tape rascal
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:02 PM :: 1056 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...When your state lacks sufficient housing, the last thing you should do is make building a difficult, risky and lengthy process. But that’s exactly what Hawaii has done....
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020 |
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More Housing Hawaii Residents Can Afford
By Video @ 4:09 AM :: 970 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii’s residents need more housing that they can afford. And one of the simplest ways to provide it would be to reform a mysterious organization called the Land Use Commission....
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Friday, September 25, 2020 |
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Reform state LUC to encourage more housing, new report says
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:50 AM :: 850 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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...The state Land Use Commission has strayed from its core mission, leading to fewer homes and higher home prices for Hawaii residents....
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Saturday, September 19, 2020 |
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Transit and the Mania for Density
By News Release @ 2:30 PM :: 1119 Views :: Development, Land Use, Rail
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...the Rasputin of urban planning....
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Thursday, September 17, 2020 |
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Waikoloa Mauka Project Now Subject of FBI Investigation, Developer Says
By Selected News Articles @ 7:51 PM :: 1783 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Development, Land Use
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...he unwittingly bought into a scheme that is now the subject of an FBI investigation....
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Friday, September 11, 2020 |
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The New Champion Of Private Property Rights Is … Barack Obama?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:02 AM :: 2644 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Land Use, Obama
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...Obama and his longtime colleague Marty Nesbitt want a 100-year-old sea wall rebuilt and fortified to protect a planned Hawaii retreat....
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020 |
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Liberalize West Maui Plan to encourage more housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:42 PM :: 882 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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... The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii advises Maui planners against adding more regulations if they wants more housing ....
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Thursday, August 27, 2020 |
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Bridge Aina Lea: US Supreme Court Urged to Hear Case
By Robert Thomas @ 3:14 AM :: 1109 Views :: Hawaii County , Land Use
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...'This case is the proverbial 'Exhibit A' of much that is wrong with takings law.'....
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Sunday, August 9, 2020 |
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OHA to Take Over Honolulu Council?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:30 AM :: 5688 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use, OHA
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...two OHA operatives are in the Council runoff elections this November with one goal in mind--help OHA upzone Kakaako Makai so it can build hotels and condos up to the sky....
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Sunday, July 19, 2020 |
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Bridge Aina Lea Heading to US Supreme Court?
By Robert Thomas @ 12:13 AM :: 1406 Views :: Hawaii County , Land Use
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...Cert Petition: "This case is the proverbial 'Exhibit A' of much that is wrong [with takings law]...."
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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Land Use: Disparate Impact
By Selected News Articles @ 11:38 PM :: 1153 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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...the Trump administration has since revised the rule, making it more difficult to challenge land-use rules that make housing more expensive....
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Friday, May 22, 2020 |
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COVID-19 Proves Hawai’i Central Planners Got it All Wrong
By Mary Smart @ 10:38 PM :: 1443 Views :: Land Use, Rail, COVID-19
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...Hawai’i central planners should reevaluate their push to implement more and more projects, such as TOD, mass transit, and shared vehicles, which contribute to the spread of disease....
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Friday, April 3, 2020 |
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Bridge Aina Lea: What Constitutes Loss?
By Robert Thomas @ 12:07 AM :: 1087 Views :: Hawaii County , Land Use
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...The opinion also adds to the growing confusion about whether the regulatory takings doctrine deals with use or value....
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Thursday, March 26, 2020 |
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Prince Kuhio’s Fight to Americanize Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 22802 Views :: DHHL, Agriculture, Hawaii History, Land Use
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...the homestead associations he championed in his first decade of service were multi-ethnic groups seeking the fee-simple ownership of land promised in the Hawaii Organic Act....
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Thursday, February 20, 2020 |
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Bridge Aina Lea: 9th Circuit Takes Developer's Last Dollar
By Robert Thomas @ 2:44 AM :: 2264 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Land Use
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...the District Court had awarded nominal compensation ($1), after the jury concluded that the State of Hawaii took Aina Lea's property....
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020 |
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Who’s to blame for high housing costs? It’s more complicated than you think.
By Selected News Articles @ 8:37 PM :: 2288 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...Public debate falls into two schools of thought as to why housing costs are so high....
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Friday, February 14, 2020 |
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Five little words could solve Hawaii's housing crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:06 PM :: 1966 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...More mandates and government red tape won’t build houses....
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Friday, January 31, 2020 |
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Hawaii’s housing crisis, in 63 seconds
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:35 PM :: 1447 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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...no land shortage....
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Saturday, December 28, 2019 |
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WSJ: Aloha Increasingly Means Goodbye Thanks to High Taxes
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:29 PM :: 3633 Views :: Jones Act, Land Use, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...With an 11% top rate, many Hawaii residents are looking for two tickets out of paradise....
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019 |
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Land Use: Hawaii Supreme Court Creates New Procedural Hoop to Jump Through
By Robert Thomas @ 12:04 PM :: 1857 Views :: Development, Land Use
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...HAWSCT: When Agency Includes Conditions In Phase 1 Land Use Permit, But Later Removes The Conditions In Phase 2 Permit, Party Who Asked For Conditions Is Entitled To Notification....
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Friday, December 6, 2019 |
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Liberate Hawaii Homebuilding
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:28 PM :: 2091 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...smaller steps that could lead to big results....
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Friday, November 15, 2019 |
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Monster Homes: Auditor Rips Department of Planning and Permitting
By News Release @ 2:45 AM :: 3247 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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"...We found that the Department of Planning and Permitting does not effectively manage building permits and inspections...."
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Thursday, November 7, 2019 |
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OHA premieres new Maui water rights film
By News Release @ 1:33 PM :: 2537 Views :: Maui County, Greenmail, Land Use, OHA
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...The community event, called E Ola I Ka Wai: Elevating Advocacy to Protect Our Precious Waters, is a partnership between OHA and the Waiwai Collective....
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Saturday, October 26, 2019 |
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Why we have a Housing Crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:33 AM :: 2683 Views :: Development, Economy, Land Use
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...When supply can’t keep up with demand, prices go up....
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019 |
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Ige Names Three to BLNR
By News Release @ 1:35 AM :: 2059 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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...Vernon Char, Wesley “Kaiwi” Yoon, Christopher Yuen....
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Wednesday, September 18, 2019 |
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Opportunity Urbanism for Honolulu?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:12 PM :: 2039 Views :: Development, Land Use
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...Houston is America's largest city without any zoning laws....
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Friday, September 13, 2019 |
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Hawaii: 'Natural Resources Management' Jobs up 33%
By News Release @ 5:00 AM :: 2683 Views :: Environment, Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use
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...Hawai‘i’s natural resource management jobs were at least 4,697 in 2018....
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Monday, August 26, 2019 |
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DPP Can't Handle Your Permit, but Has Time for Global Warming 'Pop-ups'
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 3265 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Land Use
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...The Department of Planning and Permitting is holding a series of pop-up workshops to gather input on how climate change and sea level rise will affect the area between Kāhala and Pearl City, also known as the Primary Urban Center....
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Friday, August 9, 2019 |
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Bridge Aina Lea: Statute of Limitations?
By Robert Thomas @ 12:10 AM :: 2793 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Land Use
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...Here is the motion asking the Hawaii Supreme Court for leave to file an amicus curiae brief (and the proposed brief)....
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Wednesday, August 7, 2019 |
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BLNR Nominees Sought
By News Release @ 6:23 PM :: 3199 Views :: Environment, Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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...Ige is recruiting qualified and dedicated people who are interested in serving on the State Board of Land and Natural Resources....
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Wednesday, August 7, 2019 |
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019 |
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Climate Commission Outlines Plan to Seize Shoreline Real Estate if Hurricane Hits
By News Release @ 11:16 PM :: 2499 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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"...Disasters provide critical windows of opportunity and funding for improving resilience to future disasters and changing conditions with climate change and sea level rise...."
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019 |
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City holding workshops to update Primary Urban Center plan
By News Release @ 5:24 PM :: 2796 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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...The PUC spans from Wai‘alae-Kāhala to Pearl City....
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Saturday, July 20, 2019 |
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Machado: “OHA has no position on the siting of the TMT on Maunakea”
By Andrew Walden @ 11:02 PM :: 7030 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Greenmail, Higher Education, Land Use, OHA
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...Trustees are reminding Governor Ige of OHA’s real goal—not stopping the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) but gaining control of thousands of acres atop Mauna Kea....
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Sunday, June 30, 2019 |
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The Tax on Ghost Homes
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3344 Views :: Development, Land Use, Taxes
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... a vacant home fee of 5% or 10% ....
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 |
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Housing and the Hendersons
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:38 AM :: 2974 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...It is universally acknowledged that Hawaii residents need more homes. So why is it so hard to build them?....
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Friday, June 28, 2019 |
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What The US Supreme Court's Property Rights Decision Means For Hawaii's Property Owners
By Robert Thomas @ 3:10 AM :: 5746 Views :: National News, Development, Judiciary, Land Use, Small Business, Tourism
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...Hawaii’s property owners now have many more options for fighting back against oppressive government regulation of property than they did last week....
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Thursday, June 27, 2019 |
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Auditor Rips DLNR Leasehold Management
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 9:57 PM :: 3491 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Land Use, Small Business
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...The absence of long-range planning has left the Land Division staff without the expertise, resources, and options to actively and effectively manage its land portfolio....
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Thursday, May 23, 2019 |
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Debunk: Sierra Club Fluff Piece on Hawaii Carbon Credit Scheme
By Andrew Walden @ 5:44 PM :: 4148 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Ethics, Land Use
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...Apparently nobody at the Sierra Club Magazine knows what a penny stock tout is....
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019 |
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Ige: New Rules for EIS Process
By News Release @ 9:41 PM :: 3180 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...Gov. Ige has set July 30, 2019 as the date he will sign the new rules for the state Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process. The new rules will take effect on Aug. 9, 2019....
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