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Thursday, January 6, 2022 |
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California Global Warmer Returns to Hawaii, Quickly Named to BLNR
By News Release @ 2:52 AM :: 2424 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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... Aimee’s political experience includes working on Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, helping to draft her “Climate Plan for the People,” and on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, where she led the Bay Area Idealists4Hillary group ....
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Saturday, January 1, 2022 |
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OHA’s 2022 Legislative Package
By Selected News Articles @ 3:29 PM :: 1815 Views :: Land Use, OHA
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... the Board of Trustees (1) approved the drafting and submission of a Public Land Trust focused bill to the 2022 legislature; and (2) approved the measure entitled Building Back Pono: Addressing Socioeconomic Disparities in the Post-COVID Era ....
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Friday, December 10, 2021 |
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Takings, PASH, and the Changing Coastal Environment
By Robert Thomas @ 5:55 PM :: 1741 Views :: Land Use
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... the right to exclude is not "universally applicable" in the 808. Let that one sink in ....
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021 |
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Ige Seeking Two BLNR Nominees
By News Release @ 3:04 PM :: 2257 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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... Ige is recruiting qualified and dedicated individuals from Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island who are interested in serving on the State Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) ....
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Sunday, November 28, 2021 |
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Tax Isn’t a Peanut Butter Cup
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2870 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Land Use, Taxes
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... Once upon a time there were some property developers on Oahu ....
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Tuesday, November 9, 2021 |
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7,000 Legal Vacation Rentals on Maui in Jeopardy
By Video @ 4:19 PM :: 3339 Views :: Maui County, Land Use, Tourism, Cost of Living
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... a Maui County Council proposal that aspires to create more housing on Maui by phasing out about 7,000 vacation rentals ....
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021 |
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Maui Council Proposal Would Outlaw 7,300 Legal Vacation Rentals
By News Release @ 5:53 AM :: 3035 Views :: Maui County, Land Use, Tourism
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... eliminating TVR use from these subject condominiums would result in a possible loss of $23 million in revenue annually, and upwards of $74 million in annual revenue lost overall ....
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021 |
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Poll: Most Support More Land for Housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:04 PM :: 2061 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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“Currently, about 5% of all land in Hawaii is allocated for urban and residential use. Would you support increasing that amount by maybe 1 or 2 percentage points to 6% or 7%?”
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Monday, October 25, 2021 |
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Budget crisis not needed to solve housing crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:35 PM :: 2364 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... These are suggestions that are broadly supported and would require little if any taxpayer investment ....
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Monday, October 11, 2021 |
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Coastal Erosion: No Easy, Inexpensive, or One-Size-Fits-All Solutions
By News Release @ 9:55 PM :: 1841 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... conclusions of a presentation to the Board of Land and Natural Resources ....
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Saturday, October 2, 2021 |
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Maui Council Approves 3% TAT Hike--Will use Money to buy 'Open Space'
By News Release @ 2:41 PM :: 2909 Views :: Maui County, Land Use, Tourism
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... In anticipation of the new tax, the council also passed on first reading today a bill to increase anticipated revenue for the Open Space Fund ....
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Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
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City Releases Draft Right-of-Way Widths for Planned Streets
By News Release @ 12:24 AM :: 2630 Views :: Honolulu County, Land Use
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"...to implement Complete Streets which provide equitable access across all modes and for all abilities, including pedestrians, bicycles, cars, trucks, and buses...."
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Sunday, July 25, 2021 |
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Special Land and Development Fund, Revisited
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3166 Views :: Ethics, Land Use, OHA
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... rent for the property was $100,000 while subleases of the same property brought in $300,000 ....
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Monday, July 12, 2021 |
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NASA: Moon Wobble to Cause Coastal Flooding
By Selected News Articles @ 11:02 PM :: 4450 Views :: Environment, World News, Development, Land Use
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... But don't worry. We are still going to blame global warming ....
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Thursday, July 8, 2021 |
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Ige Nominates Canto to BLNR
By News Release @ 5:01 AM :: 2324 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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"... Canto is currently employed as a processing assistant for Maui Grown Therapies ...."
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 |
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Na Wai Eha: 20 Years of Litigation 'fundamentally changes water distribution system'
By News Release @ 11:31 PM :: 9195 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Land Use
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"...the most comprehensive application of the Hawai‘i Water Code to water use and protection in history...."
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Sunday, June 20, 2021 |
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State Supreme Court: With Environmentalism Anybody Can Veto Affordable Housing
By Robert Thomas @ 4:54 AM :: 4850 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Greenmail, Judiciary, Land Use
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... Anyone Claiming That An Affordable Housing Project Might Impact Their Property Interests In A "Clean And Healthful Environment" Has Standing To Object ....
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Thursday, June 10, 2021 |
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PASH and the Changing Coastal Environment
By Robert Thomas @ 2:01 AM :: 2014 Views :: Land Use
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... a retrospective of one of the Hawaii Supreme Court's most famous (or infamous) decisions ....
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 |
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Ige Seeks BLNR Nominees
By News Release @ 6:23 AM :: 2233 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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... currently, the designated Maui and O‘ahu land district seats are open ....
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 |
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US House Resolution Backs National Forest in Hawaii
By Ed Case @ 11:57 PM :: 2626 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation, Land Use
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... The U.S. House has once again passed his National Forest study measure that calls on the United States Forest Service (USFS) to engage communities in the State of Hawai’i in a study to identify suitable parcels to be incorporated into a National Forest ....
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Saturday, May 8, 2021 |
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Mayor Victorino Bill 10 Veto Upheld, Saves Affordable Housing
By News Release @ 2:19 PM :: 5489 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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"... In theory, Bill 10 would require more affordable housing to be built, but in reality, history has shown that such additional restrictions have the opposite effect ....”
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Friday, April 23, 2021 |
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How high housing prices are encouraging residents to leave Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:57 AM :: 3539 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... How to make housing affordable and help stop the exodus ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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After Kaka'ako Makai Debacle: 'OHA Shall Seek Decision Making Influence over All Land in Hawai'i'
By Andrew Walden @ 6:08 AM :: 4603 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use, OHA
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... OHA shall promote the idea that every property in Hawai'i is sacred and pursue initiatives that help achieve a broad acceptance of this truth ....
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Friday, April 9, 2021 |
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Maui Beware!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:48 PM :: 4216 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... This would give Maui the second most restrictive affordable-housing law in the country ....
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Monday, March 15, 2021 |
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Senate Sends Housing Bills to House
By News Release @ 6:06 PM :: 2795 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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... Establishes the ALOHA homes program to develop low-cost homes on state-owned and county-owned land in urban redevelopment sites to be sold in leasehold by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation ....
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 |
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How 'Affordable' Housing rules often result in no homebuilding
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:04 AM :: 4116 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... A Maui bill to increase affordability requirements is the backdrop for a discussion on how current housing policy can be improved ....
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Thursday, March 4, 2021 |
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Lawsuit Demands More 'Critical Habitat' in Hawaii
By News Release @ 3:32 AM :: 1965 Views :: Land Use
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"... The Endangered Species Act required the agency to designate critical habitat with its listing determination and develop a recovery plan for the bird. Yet the Service has failed to do so...."
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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 :: 3888 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 :: 3003 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 :: 3938 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 :: 3418 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 :: 3548 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 :: 2866 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 :: 2995 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 :: 3052 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 :: 3566 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 :: 3299 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 :: 2958 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 :: 2810 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 :: 3573 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 :: 5408 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 :: 5606 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 :: 2726 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 :: 3147 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 :: 9840 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 :: 3553 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 :: 2985 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 :: 3574 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 :: 2895 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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