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Friday, January 19, 2024 |
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DLNR Transfers 24,200 Acres to Agriculture Department
By News Release @ 4:16 PM :: 1467 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use
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... To date, 24,200 acres of agricultural lands have been transferred by DLNR to HDOA. In October 2023, the HBOA approved, accepting 99 more parcels on the list, totaling 21,672 acres, which still requires the review and approval of the BLNR ....
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024 |
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Saiki Opening Day Speech: Don’t let Lahaina property owners rebuild
By News Release @ 5:21 PM :: 2764 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Tourism
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... Turn Lahaina into Wailea v2 surrounding the ‘Venice of the Pacific’ water feature ....
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024 |
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Let’s try a bottom-up approach to more homebuilding
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:50 AM :: 1435 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Small, focused policies could free up homebuilders and generate a wave of new housing construction ....
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Monday, January 8, 2024 |
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Housing regulations add up to solid brick wall against homebuilding
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:44 AM :: 1669 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... it’s taken almost half a year to see anything come from the governor’s emergency proclamation ....
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Friday, December 22, 2023 |
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Ways to make it easier for private homebuilders to build more homes
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:00 AM :: 1547 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... what can Hawaii policymakers do? ....
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Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Could fixing our housing crisis really be so simple?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:39 AM :: 1841 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... a roadmap that can help make it happen ....
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Sunday, December 17, 2023 |
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Cost-free ways Hawaii can increase its housing stock
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:45 PM :: 1787 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii urges lawmakers to prioritize zoning and other reforms because residents need homes now ....
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Saturday, December 9, 2023 |
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‘Not everyone wants to move to Hawaii’
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:48 PM :: 2251 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... if Hawaii is so popular, why has its population declined for seven years in a row? ....
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Saturday, December 9, 2023 |
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Fixation on short-term rentals called distraction from 'true culprit'
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:37 PM :: 2109 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Tourism, Cost of Living
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... government actions created the demand for STRs in the first place, and government regulatory failures “created housing unaffordability long before STRs even came into existence." ....
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Sunday, November 26, 2023 |
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Hawaii’s housing crisis deemed ’eminently solvable’
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 1858 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawai'i recently reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would incentivize state and local governments to liberalize housing regulations around transit projects ....
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Sunday, November 26, 2023 |
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Will history someday record an 'economic miracle' for Lahaina?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:20 AM :: 1856 Views :: Maui County, Development, Economy, Land Use
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... how many years will depend on which path is taken ....
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Saturday, November 18, 2023 |
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VIDEO: Bissen open to Seizing Condotels Which Compete with Full-Service ILWU-Controlled Hotels
By News Release @ 12:27 AM :: 3239 Views :: Maui County, Development, Labor, Land Use
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... 'Minatoya List' short-term rentals are condotels competing with the ILWU controlled hotels. That is why they are being targeted ....
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Sunday, November 12, 2023 |
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Owning in a Burn Zone
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2432 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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“... It’s absurd, the socialist mentality, they think they own the land ....”
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Thursday, November 9, 2023 |
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Inverse Condemnation and Hawaii's Wildfires
By Robert Thomas @ 2:07 AM :: 1844 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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... the role that ‘damaging clauses’ found in more than half of state constitutions across the United States play in inverse condemnation claims related to natural disasters ....
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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 |
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Homeowner Politics and Housing Supply
By UHERO @ 12:48 AM :: 1999 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... councillors representing a higher number of homeowners are more likely to oppose housing bills ....
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Saturday, November 4, 2023 |
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‘Affordable housing’ making housing worse for everyone
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:45 PM :: 2618 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... since 1969, the median home price in Hawaii has surged from being less than three times the median income to nearly 10 times the median income today ....
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Friday, October 27, 2023 |
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Grassroot testifies before county councils on housing, property tax relief, permitting
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 2301 Views :: Honolulu County, Kauai County, Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... testimony to the Honolulu, Maui and Kauai county councils about measures that could increase the supply of housing ....
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Friday, October 27, 2023 |
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Respect property rights, remove red tape for Lahaina rebuild
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:12 AM :: 2178 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... The families and individuals who owned homes and businesses in Lahaina should not have their property rights arbitrarily stripped away from them to satisfy the grand plans of some bureaucracy ....
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Friday, October 27, 2023 |
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DLNR Transferring 99 Parcels to Agriculture Department
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 2074 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use
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... 99 agricultural parcels, totaling 21,672 acres ....
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Thursday, October 26, 2023 |
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Green's Latest Housing Proclamation Removes Sunshine Law Exemption
By News Release @ 5:01 PM :: 1302 Views :: Ethics, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... all boards involved in an affordable housing project covered by the proclamation should comply with the Sunshine Law’s requirements ....
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 |
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UHERO: Reduce fire risk with regulation, restoration of fallow ag lands
By UHERO @ 10:12 PM :: 2091 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture, Land Use
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... Fallow agricultural lands now comprise approximately 40% of all agricultural lands or 25% of lands across the state ....
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Saturday, October 21, 2023 |
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Inverse Condemnation and Paying for Disasters
By Robert Thomas @ 10:36 PM :: 2299 Views :: Maui County, Development, Judiciary, Land Use
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... Hawaii Bar Association discusses Lahaina fires ....
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Saturday, October 21, 2023 |
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Hawaii urged to steer clear of Vienna housing model
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:59 PM :: 2331 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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“...Does social housing actually work? Setting the record straight on the Vienna Model....”
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Monday, October 9, 2023 |
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DLNR: Official Who Withheld Firefighting Water Gets Job Back
By News Release @ 7:26 PM :: 2817 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Land Use
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... fake 'investigation' ends as soon as Maui Council ponies up political capital ....
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Thursday, October 5, 2023 |
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Thursday, October 5, 2023 |
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VIDEO: ‘Innovative solutions’ to address housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:50 PM :: 1724 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... if Hawaii wants more housing built, it should first reduce — or even eliminate — zoning regulations, particularly single-family zoning. Then it should do away with discretionary permitting ....
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Monday, October 2, 2023 |
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Think small to help resolve Kaua‘i’s housing crisis
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:46 PM :: 1997 Views :: Kauai County, Development, Land Use
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... allowing homebuilding on lot sizes smaller than currently allowed ....
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Sunday, October 1, 2023 |
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Lahaina fires prompt questions about state water policy
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:11 PM :: 2047 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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... Are Hawaii’s water policies sufficient for fighting fires? ....
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Thursday, September 28, 2023 |
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New dashboard highlights areas of Hawaiʻi housing crisis
By UHERO @ 10:04 PM :: 2397 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... customize data reports based on location, with information such as property and rental market, demographics, zoning and housing stock ....
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Sunday, September 24, 2023 |
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Governor’s revised housing proclamation caves to NIMBYs
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:46 PM :: 2063 Views :: Development, Land Use
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"...the same bureaucracy and NIMBY-ism is happening with that emergency proclamation...."
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Friday, September 22, 2023 |
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State Water Commission Holds Marathon 12 Hour Meeting
By News Release @ 9:55 PM :: 1937 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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... Despite some, who testified during Tuesday’s 12-hour-long meeting, claiming the suspension of the water code during the fire emergency set everything back to before 1987, Chang said that is not accurate ....
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Friday, September 22, 2023 |
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Friday, September 22, 2023 |
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 |
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Green Backtracks on YIMBY Emergency Order
By Selected News Articles @ 6:00 AM :: 3649 Views :: Development, Greenmail, Land Use
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"Now all this is…an abuse of the emergency power that won't fast-track housing."
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023 |
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Can BJ Penn tap out broken zoning code?
By News Release @ 4:24 PM :: 3654 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... the EP didn’t and doesn’t create any permanent change in government. We need our legislature and county councils to do that ....
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Sunday, September 17, 2023 |
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Challenging the Housing Czar
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2288 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... Threats of violence ....
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Sunday, September 17, 2023 |
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Rebuild? Give More Rights to Lahaina Property Owners
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:00 AM :: 2381 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... policies the Maui Council can implement to boost the County's economy and encourage reconstruction in Lahaina ....
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Saturday, September 16, 2023 |
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Green Revises Housing Emergency Proclamation--calls it 'affordable'
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 2125 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Here are some of the highlights: Adds “affordable” housing to the title ....
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Monday, September 11, 2023 |
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“How 'bout give the people their homes back.”
By Video @ 5:03 PM :: 4019 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... Joe Rogan and Tulsi Gabbard on the government screwing over the residents of Maui to take their land ....
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Sunday, September 10, 2023 |
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Property rights should prevail in Lahaina
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:47 PM :: 2310 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... peoples’ homes and businesses are at stake, and their right to those properties must be defended ....
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Friday, September 8, 2023 |
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Medeiros Resigns: Governor Blames Threats from BJ Penn
By News Release @ 5:17 AM :: 4423 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use, Republican Party
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"...Threats have been made against me, loved ones who don’t even work for the government, and even children...."
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023 |
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Lawyers: "Bishop Estate Caused Lahaina Fire"
By News Release @ 2:45 PM :: 4199 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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... landowners knew how dangerous it was to have that huge volume of dry grass next to subdivisions, and could have saved hundreds of lives at cost of less than $1,000 per acre to cut the brush ....
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Friday, September 1, 2023 |
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Suit: Hawaii governor overreaches with housing crisis proclamation
By Court House News @ 1:59 PM :: 2352 Views :: Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... Native Hawaiian interest groups and environmental organizations joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii and the Sierra Club on Thursday ....
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023 |
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Maui Court Issues ‘Writ of Quo Warranto’ vs Green’s July 17 Housing Proclamation
By News Release @ 7:36 PM :: 3036 Views :: Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... "The proclamation usurps all government power into the hands of one unelected former lobbyist" said Petitioner Tom Coffman ....
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Friday, August 25, 2023 |
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To Tackle Highest Housing Costs in the Country, Hawaii's Governor Declares YIMBY Martial Law
By Selected News Articles @ 6:00 AM :: 2516 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... An emergency proclamation by Gov. Josh Green offers developers the opportunity to route around almost all regulations on building homes ....
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023 |
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How parking reform could help boost Hawaii’s housing stock
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:08 PM :: 1937 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... most cities in the U.S. have required arbitrary amounts of parking to be built with every new building or new business ....
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Saturday, August 19, 2023 |
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Housing proclamation raises ‘questions galore’
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:51 PM :: 2297 Views :: Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... it selectively grants regulatory relief to projects designated by a committee of housing “czars” ....
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Thursday, August 17, 2023 |
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Hawaii Zoning Atlas Reveals where and how Zoning Rules Limit Housing Supply and Increase Costs
By News Release @ 8:07 PM :: 3105 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use
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... The local Atlas team is part of a national coalition aiming to inform solutions to the housing crisis by cataloging land use policies across the U.S. ....
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Thursday, August 17, 2023 |
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DLNR 'Reassigns' Hawaiian Activist Who Delayed Water Resupply for Lahaina Fire
By News Release @ 1:57 AM :: 6026 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Greenmail, Land Use, OHA
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... 'Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner' at DLNR is transferred to new job after allegedly prioritizing taro patch over Lahaina firefighting ....
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023 |
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Green: "Its going to be a very long time before any housing can be built"
By News Release @ 2:50 PM :: 2973 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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"We’ll also invest state resources to preserve and protect this land for our people; not for any development"
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