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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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Policies that could help turn the tide of people leaving Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:44 PM :: 527 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... Hawaii’s high housing costs are due mostly to Hawaii’s excessively strict land-use and zoning regulations, as well as its long permitting wait times ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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California wildfire recovery lessons from Lahaina
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:32 PM :: 257 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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“...Lessons from Maui as LA Begins to Rebuild....”
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 |
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What Lingle v Chevron Missed: Eminent Domain Pretext
By Robert Thomas @ 11:00 AM :: 333 Views :: Land Use
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... some tantalizing crumbs about how to raise a claim that a taking lacks a public use or purpose ....
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Saturday, January 11, 2025 |
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OHA Legislative Agenda: Kakaako 400 Foot Towers (again)
By News Release @ 2:52 PM :: 743 Views :: Development, Land Use, OHA
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... This bill would also raise the residential height limit along Ala Moana Boulevard to 400 feet ....
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Thursday, December 26, 2024 |
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OHA Trustees’ Illegal 2025 Rush to Upzone Kakaako Makai (again)
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 1041 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use, OHA
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... OHA Trustees are hoping 2025 will be the year legislators stop laughing at their Kaka’ako Makai upzone bills ....
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Saturday, December 7, 2024 |
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Why Hawaii's housing costs are among the highest in the nation
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:24 PM :: 1279 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... State land use laws significantly restrict urban development, meaning neighborhoods or condos can only make up about 5 percent of the state ....
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 |
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How to make Hawaii more livable
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:41 AM :: 957 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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... we only build in Hawaii on 5% of the land mass — 95% is agriculture or preservation land ....
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Monday, December 2, 2024 |
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SF Judge Rules 'Empty Homes Tax’ Unconstitutional
By Andrew Walden @ 3:50 PM :: 4245 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use, Taxes
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... the (US) Supreme Court has held that the government cannot “compel a landowner over objection to rent his property” without violating the Takings Clause ....
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024 |
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The Value of Single-Family Neighborhoods
By Selected News Articles @ 2:19 AM :: 1288 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... is there really a pent-up demand for high-density housing? ....
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024 |
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Hawaii Bar: 'Property Rights & Regulatory Takings'
By Robert Thomas @ 8:44 PM :: 883 Views :: Development, Judiciary, Land Use
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... Links And Materials From Hawaii Bar Association Takings Program ....
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024 |
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OHA to Take Control of Kahana Valley Living Park?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:08 PM :: 1346 Views :: Ethics, Land Use, OHA, Tourism
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... Will OHA transfer control of Kahana Valley to one of its LLCs? ....
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Thursday, October 17, 2024 |
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Fixing Hawai`iʻs Housing Crisis - A Visit With Peter Savio
By Video @ 2:43 PM :: 1152 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Hawai`i homes are unaffordable, many Hawaiians and others have moved away and the ones still here are renters who work multiple jobs just to make ends meet ....
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Sunday, October 13, 2024 |
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The $4 Billion Maui Wildfire “Settlement”
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1296 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Land Use
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... There have been a lot of sharp words in the news lately ....
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Friday, October 11, 2024 |
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DLNR Transfers 7,000 acres to Agriculture Department
By News Release @ 5:18 PM :: 672 Views :: Hawaii County , Agriculture, Land Use
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... The nine leases and 25 revocable permits represent a continuation of the transfers under Act 90. Passed by the legislature in 2003 ....
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Thursday, October 10, 2024 |
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Affordable Housing: Green Signs 9th Emergency Proclamation
By News Release @ 9:40 PM :: 964 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... The latest proclamation places a pause on the automatic adoption of county building codes ....
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Thursday, October 10, 2024 |
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Hawaii Home Prices up 342% -- over and above the rate of inflation
By Selected News Articles @ 4:29 PM :: 1962 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii had the number one largest cost increase of any state in the country ....
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Thursday, September 26, 2024 |
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State Sues Homeowner as House Collapses into Ocean
By News Release @ 5:02 AM :: 1127 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Land Use
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... It also requests an order from the Court that provides the state owns the land clear of interest or claim by the defendant ....
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Thursday, September 26, 2024 |
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State Supreme Court: No TVRs on Ag Land
By News Release @ 4:47 AM :: 1472 Views :: Hawaii County , Agriculture, Land Use, Small Business, Tourism
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... Hawaiʻi Supreme Court’s unanimous decision of Rosehill v. State of Hawaiʻi, Land Use Commission, where the court held that farm dwellings in the agricultural district cannot be used as short-term vacation rentals under Hawaiʻi law ....
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Saturday, September 21, 2024 |
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Concealed Carry Ruling Boosts Property Rights?
By Robert Thomas @ 1:03 AM :: 1431 Views :: Land Use, Second Amendment, Small Business
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... While Figuring Out Gun "Sensitive Places," CA9 Backhandedly Upholds The Right To Exclude ....
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024 |
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Hawaii Water Service Operations Manager Recognized Nationally for Response During Lahaina Fire
By News Release @ 12:24 AM :: 1573 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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... John (Kani) Kadowaki, Maui Operations Manager of Hawaii Water Service, honored with the Living Water Award during annual Water Summit ....
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Sunday, September 8, 2024 |
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Hawaii County beekeepers rejoice at Council's passage of Bill 144
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:14 PM :: 1159 Views :: Hawaii County , Agriculture, Land Use
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... beekeepers on the island "have been working on this bill for almost seven years" ....
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024 |
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UH developed, living coastal-protection system prepares for deployment
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 1920 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, Land Use
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... The project is on track for its first deployment of a 50-meter array of structures near the Ulupaʻu crater, off the Kailua Bay side of Marine Corps Base Hawaiʻi in late 2024, early 2025 ....
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Saturday, August 31, 2024 |
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Mayor signs bill to drive creation of new rental housing for Oʻahu
By News Release @ 4:16 PM :: 1715 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... Bill 3 (2024), which greatly enhances incentives to developers to help generate rental housing projects ....
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Saturday, August 24, 2024 |
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Twelve Ways to Reduce Housing Costs
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:20 AM :: 1452 Views :: Agriculture, Development, Land Use, Small Business
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... preserving property rights, lifting onerous regulations, pushing back against proposals that could negatively impact local residents, and supporting efforts to rebuild after the devastating Maui wildfires ....
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024 |
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What Hawaii can learn from California’s long and bumpy road to ADU stardom
By Selected News Articles @ 4:57 AM :: 2145 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... This spring, Hawaii joined the growing list of states that have loosened restrictions on Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) to alleviate the housing shortage ....
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Wednesday, August 7, 2024 |
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City Releases Revised Housing Plan
By News Release @ 10:52 PM :: 1069 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... The 2024 Revised Edition of the 2023 Housing Plan builds upon the foundational strategies outlined in the original October 2023 plan ....
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024 |
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Housing Emergency Proclamations: What has been accomplished?
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:01 PM :: 1597 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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" ... The main value of the edicts so far has been to focus attention on barriers to homebuilding and prompt positive legislative action .... "
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Saturday, July 13, 2024 |
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Outsider Foolishly Buys N. Shore Oceanfront Lot--BLNR Steals It
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 1338 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... the proposed fines totaled more than $3.2 million after some genius threw a rock at an albatross ....
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Sunday, June 30, 2024 |
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Update development standards to allow more apartment housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:54 PM :: 1105 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... if Honolulu were to revise upward all the other development standards as well — the minimum setbacks, the height limits, the maximum lot coverage and minimum lot widths and depths — the number of newly legal units could skyrocket ....
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Sunday, June 30, 2024 |
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Supreme Court overrules landmark 'Chevron' precedent on government authority
By Court House News @ 3:39 AM :: 1542 Views :: Environment, Health Care, Labor, Land Use, Law Enforcement, Small Business
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... For 40 years, the Chevron precedent has been the backbone of administrative law, limiting judicial decision-making in favor of agency 'expertise' ....
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Saturday, June 29, 2024 |
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Scheme to Remake Lahaina as Touristy Water Park Advances in Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 3338 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Hawaii History, Land Use, Tourism
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... The remade Lahaina will be a tourist-oriented animation of the pre-plantation era when the economy was based on slaughtering lots of whales ....
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Friday, June 28, 2024 |
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Hawaii Water Wars: If you don't claim a 'taking' you lose
By Robert Thomas @ 12:01 AM :: 1132 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... those standards only apply where there's a takings claim present. And there's no takings claims here ....
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024 |
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Maui TVR phase-out wrong means for good goal
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:45 PM :: 1436 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Small Business, Tourism, Cost of Living
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... virtually all local economists realize the main cause of Hawaii’s housing crisis is the state’s extremely high number of land-use and other housing-related regulations that have hindered homebuilding ....
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Saturday, June 15, 2024 |
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How Urban Planning Made Honolulu 'Impossibly Unaffordable'
By Selected News Articles @ 9:44 PM :: 2588 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... The crisis stems principally from land use policies that artificially restrict housing supply ....
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Saturday, May 18, 2024 |
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Plan to ban thousands of TVRs on Maui has rocky road ahead
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:16 PM :: 3010 Views :: Maui County, Land Use, Tourism
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... The plan will have its first hearing on June 25 before the Maui Planning Commission ....
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Thursday, May 16, 2024 |
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Feds Designate 2,000,000 Acres of Hawaii as 'Sentinel Landscapes'
By Ed Case @ 2:02 AM :: 2063 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation, Land Use, Military
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... The program creates partnerships between federal agencies, state and local governments, private landowners, land managers and non-profits to preserve sensitive lands and resources near military bases ....
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Saturday, May 4, 2024 |
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Green Signs SB2919: Pretending to Allow Counties to Seize TVRs
By News Release @ 5:14 PM :: 2413 Views :: Maui County, Land Use, Tourism
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... The bill clarifies the counties’ authority to control the time, place, manner, and duration of land uses, particularly transient accommodations including short-term rentals ....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
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Full Text: Hawaii Attorney General Maui Wildfire Report
By News Release @ 5:53 PM :: 2057 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Land Use
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... AG Lopez structured the FSRI contract to focus entirely on the role of public agencies, thus avoiding any liability borne by Hawaiian Electric or private landowners such as KSBE ....
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Monday, April 8, 2024 |
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Marconi Point Project Connected to DPP Bribery Scandal
By Selected News Articles @ 6:14 PM :: 3518 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... City Seeks to Dismiss Marconi Claims, Supports Move to Depose Bribery Convicts ....
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Sunday, April 7, 2024 |
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Road to rebuilding Lahaina paved with obstructions
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:40 PM :: 1965 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... regulations and objections by various special interests ....
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Thursday, March 28, 2024 |
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Council resolution exemplifies why we still have housing crisis
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 2071 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... Twenty years later, we are still having the same conversations ....
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024 |
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
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Prince Kuhio's Fight to Americanize Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 40583 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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Sunday, March 24, 2024 |
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Grassroot Institute Bills on the Move
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:10 PM :: 1969 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... bills that could significantly ease Hawaii's emergency-status housing crisis ....
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Sunday, March 24, 2024 |
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Cost of NIMBYism way too high
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:58 PM :: 2337 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... Resolution 24-65 contains most of the usual anti-housing rhetoric, and even claims that making it easier to create smaller, more affordable homes would somehow result in more so-called monster homes ....
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Sunday, March 17, 2024 |
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‘CPR king’ Abe Lee enables homeownership despite complicated legal framework
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 2352 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... 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 ....
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