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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 :: 889 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 :: 1749 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 :: 1139 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 :: 1310 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 :: 38247 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 :: 1261 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 :: 1553 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 :: 1702 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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Friday, March 15, 2024 |
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SB3381 Lahaina Landgrab Bill: Akaku Hosts Community Forum
By News Release @ 2:04 AM :: 1805 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... at Akakū Maui Community Media on Saturday, March 16th from 9:30am - 1pm ....
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Thursday, March 14, 2024 |
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“Smaller homes on smaller lots”
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:47 PM :: 1512 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... HB1630 and SB3202 would allow homeowners to subdivide their lots and build additional homes ....
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 |
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FWS Designates 119,326 acres as critical habitat on Big Island
By News Release @ 4:58 PM :: 1381 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Land Use
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... 119,326 acres of federal, state, private, and public lands are being designated as critical habitat for 12 species, meaning these areas have been identified as essential for the conservation of one or more of the species ....
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Sunday, March 10, 2024 |
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Water agency ID’d as major Lahaina recovery roadblock
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:09 PM :: 1561 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... “We’ve got this long line of developers who have been trying for decades to get a permit at the Water Commission” ....
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Sunday, March 10, 2024 |
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Listening to naysayers in the housing debate
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:51 AM :: 1743 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... monsters lurk behind every corner ....
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Saturday, February 24, 2024 |
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Green Kills off 'Affordable' Housing Group, Hands Authority to HHFDC
By News Release @ 3:42 AM :: 1384 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Green assigns the BBB’s duties to the Hawai‘i Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC), which will review developer applications for eligibility and process fee waiver exemptions ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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Hawaii: Never a shortage of costly and grandiose project proposals
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:48 PM :: 1659 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... how to facilitate homebuilding in Hawaii at no cost to taxpayers ....
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Thursday, February 1, 2024 |
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Reduce Minimum Lot Size to Lower Housing Costs
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:06 PM :: 1173 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... the minimum lot size on Maui of 6,000 square feet incentivizes the construction of large homes rather than smaller, more affordable ones ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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Not Much to Show for Governor's Emergency Housing Proclamations
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:54 PM :: 1359 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... the proclamations have only been used once ....
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Saturday, January 20, 2024 |
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Hold on to your wallets! The Legislature is back in session
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:56 AM :: 1184 Views :: Development, Land Use, Taxes
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... “artificial limiters” imposed on the housing stock via the state’s 5% cap on land zoned for residential ....
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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 :: 1106 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 :: 2236 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 :: 1058 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 :: 1215 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 :: 1212 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 :: 1344 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 :: 1495 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 :: 1841 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 :: 1657 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 :: 1416 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 :: 1332 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 :: 2521 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 :: 2045 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 :: 1567 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 :: 1659 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 :: 2169 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 :: 1766 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 :: 1824 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 :: 1724 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 :: 908 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 :: 1703 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 :: 1781 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 :: 1991 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 :: 2469 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 :: 1463 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 :: 1598 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 :: 1788 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 :: 1908 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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