Entries for 'Grassroot Institute'

... Resolution 24-78 would set property tax rates for the coming year ....

... County officials are seeking significant property tax increases while doing virtually nothing to cut spending or spend wisely ....

... Tax hikes would burden average Maui homeowners the most ....

“...if you look through the bill, it’s a bunch of blank spaces. It says conveyance taxes will increase by blank percent. Or short-term rental taxes are gonna have a blank percent tax on them....”

... Hawaii County treats beehives like piggeries ....

... To address the problem, Yamachika suggested that legal action might be necessary ....

... highlights, frustrations at 2024 Legislature ....

... Comerford said his 45 years of living in Hawaii and 25 years of being a business owner are likely to end due to a recent state decision to collect taxes on federal Restaurant Revitalization Funds received during the COVID-19 lockdowns ....

“...30% respondents reported that if there was not a home and vacation rental option during their recent stay in Hawaii, they would not have made the trip....”

... TABOR, a constitutional amendment approved by Colorado voters in 1992, limits the growth of government by limiting tax increases ....

... regulations and objections by various special interests ....

... The bills would enable starter homes, widen mixed-use housing, attract nurses to Hawaii and exempt doctors from the state GET ....

“The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey”

... Twenty years later, we are still having the same conversations ....

... Hawaii hands out an average of 5,000 jaywalking tickets per year, the highest per capita in the nation, but that has done virtually nothing to promote pedestrian safety ....

... Many political disagreements divide neatly along party lines, but the protectionist Jones Act isn’t one of them ....

... bills that could significantly ease Hawaii's emergency-status housing crisis ....

... the harsh limits on the allowable number of water fixtures per property could render density-increasing measures essentially meaningless ....

... These two measures would increase our housing supply not only on Oahu but throughout all of Hawaii by allowing smaller homes on smaller lots....

... Zoning Code, Permitting and Water Rules ....

... Hawaii taxpayers are going to be paying more for state government projects under a directive issued in February by Gov. Josh Green ....

... state law allows homeowners to divide their ownership rights into separate “lots of record” for ownership purposes, but the County Department of Planning and Permitting will still only recognize the property as one lot ....

... 2024 Legislature resumes session and Grassroot Institute is on the case ....

... HB1630 and SB3202 would allow homeowners to subdivide their lots and build additional homes ....

... Federal aid money is pouring in, but “no one seems to know where it’s going” ....

... “We’ve got this long line of developers who have been trying for decades to get a permit at the Water Commission” ....

“...amend the County’s emergency permitting statute to speed up approval times, waive building permit fees and expand the types of structures to which the statute applies....”

... “There’s not been a lot of transparency” regarding how wildfire relief funds are being spent ....

... Short-term rental owners in Hawaii could hardly find a better spokesperson for their cause ....

... After Hurricane Iniki struck Kauai in 1992, the Kauai County Council adopted an ordinance similar to this bill to foster the reconstruction of old, nonconforming structures ....

... reform the County’s emergency housing permitting policies to help facilitate a quicker recovery for the residents of Lahaina ....

... After the state Division of Financial Institutions started implementing stringent cryptocurrency regulations in 2014, crypto companies started fleeing the state ....

... good housing bills, awful tax bills at Legislature ....

... ‘What will it cost, and at what price in terms of reliability?’ ....

... Hawaiian Electric blamed reduced solar and wind power as a partial cause of the blackouts ....

"... they’re not providing a very efficient source of revenue ...."

... how to facilitate homebuilding in Hawaii at no cost to taxpayers ....

... the minimum lot size on Maui of 6,000 square feet incentivizes the construction of large homes rather than smaller, more affordable ones ....

... the proclamations have only been used once ....

“...30% respondents reported that if there was not a home and vacation rental option during their recent stay in Hawaii, they would not have made the trip....”

... restaurants hit with surprise tax bill applicable to the financial aid received under federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund .... 

"...a unique, uncensored and raw platform...."

... “artificial limiters” imposed on the housing stock via the state’s 5% cap on land zoned for residential ....

... Are rolling blackouts going to be Hawaii’s “new normal”?  ....

... Hawaii 46th ....

... the report presents “aggressive scenarios of emission-reduction targets that will be incredibly challenging" ....

... Skyline’s average daily ridership since opening in July is 3,100 ....

... they often foot the bill for property tax increases in the form of higher rent ....

... increasing East Coast fuel costs, killing a massive wind farm project and crippling LNG tranport ....

... a new real property tax classification specifically for long-term rental properties ....