Development

... there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch ....

... The most recent example of this comes from Maui, where just this week the County Council killed a housing project that would have created 28 affordable units in Kihei ....

... The maximum monthly rent for this household is $2,940 for a two-bedroom unit, according to DPP calculations, up from last year’s maximum rent of $2,720 ....

... Decades of studies have shown that publicly financed stadiums, even those that include housing and retail projects, do not bring in enough money to offset public investments ....

... The assumption is that they would simply have to take that additional loss ....

... Maui Council Bill 107 could cause homebuilders to stop building affordable homes ....

... Hawaii rate of increase second only to Massachusetts ....

... In the United States, Hawaii was the first to pass a town-and-country-type land-use law in 1961 ....

“...Rajesh Budhabhatti is a subject of a public corruption/wire fraud case....”

... how many houses built before 1939 and after 2000 ....

... no-holds-barred ....

... Hawaii lost 1,600 construction jobs, -4.3 percent, the largest percentage loss in USA ....

... Tuesday, the Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) unanimously agreed to designate the entire Lahaina Aquifer Sector Area as both a Surface Water and Ground Water Management Area ....

... The vague language in the proposal lacks any metrics for measuring success, similar to another business-focused tax credit whose value to the state is dubious ...

... ‘Hawaii zoning atlas’ will identify barriers to housing ....

... it’s technically easier to build a house for Oprah than it is to build houses for average families ....

... this is what happens if you try to build affordable housing in Hawaii ....

... Seventy-three percent of surveyed firms report they are currently bidding on federal construction projects valued at $35 million or more. Yet the same percentage, 73 percent, report they would not bid on those projects if a project labor agreement were required....

... It just so happens that these repairs are also the repairs needs to continue using the facility. What a coincidence! ....

... Since the reviewing agencies are diverse and have their own priorities, it is not unusual that substantial delays are caused when these other agencies do not timely process applications ....

... Is there a public safety hazard?  DPP’s Michael Silva can’t say ....

... Housing bills that will be sent to the Governor for his signature include ....

... Gen-Xers and millennials are “the most viscerally affected by the cost of housing and forced to leave the state to pursue a life elsewhere” ....

... More than $1 billion is being poured into the defueling and cleanup efforts connected to the Red Hill fuel storage facility in Hawaii, but one lawmaker said more money is needed ....

... a new web-based software designed to support planning and permit processing ....

... Delays, zoning rules and a long pathway to approval make homebuilding difficult and expensive ....

... One of the factors that may explain Hawaii’s high home prices are government regulations that limit the ability of the housing market to create the units necessary to meet demand ....

... alleging that 14 entities designed and constructed five condominium and apartment complexes in Hawaii without accessible features required by the Fair Housing Act ....

... first step toward identifying the regulatory barriers that restrain homebuilding in Hawaii and has led to the state’s notoriously high cost of housing ....

... Hawaii had robust housing construction up until about 1972 or 1973, but then it collapsed and it has never recovered ....

... how Tokyo’s deregulation of its housing market resulted in more housing availability and affordable housing prices ....

... a new, web-based software designed to support planning and permit processing ....

... In 1961, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to pass a growth-management law. ...

... the ALOHA homes program as currently envisioned in this bill would result in an expensive, nonsustainable government project that would fail to effectively assist those it is intended to help ....

... thus raising the state’s top income tax rate from 11% to 13% ....

... 5:30-8:30 PM, Tuesday, February 8th ....

..."I am always concerned by any piece of legislation that is not signed by Corporation Counsel...." -- Mayor Victorino

... New incentives approved to spur development of affordable rentals ....

... Stadium-villages generally create low wage jobs ....

“If we don’t provide the right type of visitor accommodations in the right places, we could see an influx of vacation rentals in our residential neighborhoods."

... The first meeting is scheduled for 5:30-8:30 PM, Friday, January 14 ....

... These are suggestions that are broadly supported and would require little if any taxpayer investment ....

... DPP will hold two public hearings to gather community input on the newly proposed measures ....

... Bill 17 would allow the city’s Department of Planning and Permitting to record liens against property and then to foreclose on the liens....

"...For decades, infrastructure in Hawaii has suffered from a systemic lack of investment...."

"... concerned about unintended consequences such as pushing hospitality developments into communities outside of Maui’s resort areas ...."

... The signing allows USACE and the City and County of Honolulu to develop a salespitch that appears to balance costs and environmental impacts ....

... But don't worry.  We are still going to blame global warming ....

“...I am prioritizing our resident workforce as the first beneficiaries of this water to motivate construction of right-priced housing as soon as possible....”