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Sunday, July 24, 2022 |
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Affordable? Maui Price Fixing Bill 'Recommitted'
By Joe Kent @ 9:19 PM :: 2595 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch ....
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Sunday, July 24, 2022 |
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How to take politics out of housing
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:39 PM :: 2473 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... 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 ....
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Friday, July 22, 2022 |
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Affordable Housing: $2940 for 2br Apartment
By News Release @ 5:22 AM :: 2631 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Cost of Living
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... 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 ....
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022 |
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Hawaii’s NASED -- Another sports venue that fails to generate promised revenue
By Selected News Articles @ 10:51 PM :: 3046 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Higher Education, Tourism
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... 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 ....
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022 |
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Maui Council on verge of worsening housing crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:58 AM :: 2901 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... The assumption is that they would simply have to take that additional loss ....
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Saturday, July 16, 2022 |
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Maui’s sky-high home prices a ‘self-inflicted wound’
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:47 AM :: 3705 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Maui Council Bill 107 could cause homebuilders to stop building affordable homes ....
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Saturday, July 2, 2022 |
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Hawaii housing starts jump 28.2%
By Selected News Articles @ 11:47 PM :: 2677 Views :: Development, Economy, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii rate of increase second only to Massachusetts ....
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 |
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Property Rights and the New Feudalism
By Selected News Articles @ 11:59 PM :: 3162 Views :: Development, Hawaii History, Land Use
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... In the United States, Hawaii was the first to pass a town-and-country-type land-use law in 1961 ....
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 |
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He Owned the Land for Just a Day, But Received 212 Credits from County
By Selected News Articles @ 10:21 PM :: 6628 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Development, Land Use, Tax Credits
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“...Rajesh Budhabhatti is a subject of a public corruption/wire fraud case....”
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 |
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Counties in Hawaii with the most pre-war homes
By Selected News Articles @ 6:33 PM :: 2103 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics
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... how many houses built before 1939 and after 2000 ....
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Monday, June 20, 2022 |
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Hawaii Loses 4.3% of Construction Jobs
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 3081 Views :: Development, Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Hawaii lost 1,600 construction jobs, -4.3 percent, the largest percentage loss in USA ....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 |
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'Water Management Area' -- New Way to Selectively Control Development
By News Release @ 10:04 PM :: 3001 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Land Use
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... 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 ....
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 |
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Bill 45: Rail TOD Giveaway to High Tech Tax Credit Schemers
By Selected News Articles @ 3:30 AM :: 3589 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail, Tax Credits
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... 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 ...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Hawaii Lack of Affordable Housing “largely a manufactured crisis”
By Video @ 7:15 PM :: 4627 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... ‘Hawaii zoning atlas’ will identify barriers to housing ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Want more housing? Try economic freedom
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:14 PM :: 2255 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... it’s technically easier to build a house for Oprah than it is to build houses for average families ....
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Friday, June 3, 2022 |
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Eleven Years Later: Bridge Aina Lea Affordable Housing Developer Loses Lawsuit
By News Release @ 6:49 AM :: 2766 Views :: Hawaii County , Development
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... this is what happens if you try to build affordable housing in Hawaii ....
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Thursday, June 2, 2022 |
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Biden Mandates Project Labor Agreements, 73% of Contractors will Stop Bidding
By News Release @ 2:49 PM :: 2005 Views :: Development, Labor
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... 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....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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How to Make Housing Affordable in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:45 PM :: 3121 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Hint: It's not because of “empty homes,” short-term rentals, “outside investors” or other distractions ....
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Saturday, May 28, 2022 |
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Navy Contractor: Piping Repairs Key to any Red Hill Solution
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 2251 Views :: Environment, Development, Military
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... It just so happens that these repairs are also the repairs needs to continue using the facility. What a coincidence! ....
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Monday, May 16, 2022 |
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Auditor: Maui Building Permits Delayed for Months in Spite of 30-Day Mandate
By News Release @ 9:19 PM :: 2578 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... 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 ....
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 |
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Audit: Caldwell Admin Signed off on ‘Deficient’ Building Permits for Three Years
By Andrew Walden @ 10:06 PM :: 3990 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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... Is there a public safety hazard? DPP’s Michael Silva can’t say ....
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Monday, May 2, 2022 |
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Legislature Burns $1B on 'Affordable Housing'
By News Release @ 5:47 PM :: 3879 Views :: DHHL, Development, Hawaii State Government, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... Housing bills that will be sent to the Governor for his signature include ....
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 |
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VIDEO: Can Youth Solve Hawaii Housing Crisis?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:38 PM :: 2627 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... 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” ....
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 |
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Red Hill fuel cleanup could require more tax dollars than allocated
By Selected News Articles @ 4:00 PM :: 2882 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Military
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... 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 ....
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Monday, April 18, 2022 |
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Maui’s Automated Planning and Permitting System is LIVE
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 2225 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... a new web-based software designed to support planning and permit processing ....
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Saturday, April 16, 2022 |
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UHERO is my new housing policy hero
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:56 PM :: 2962 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Delays, zoning rules and a long pathway to approval make homebuilding difficult and expensive ....
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Thursday, April 14, 2022 |
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VIDEO: Measuring the Burden of Housing Regulation in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 6:44 AM :: 2936 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... 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 ....
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Monday, April 4, 2022 |
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Justice Department Alleges Disability Discrimination in Hawaii Condos
By News Release @ 4:33 PM :: 2131 Views :: Development
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... alleging that 14 entities designed and constructed five condominium and apartment complexes in Hawaii without accessible features required by the Fair Housing Act ....
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Saturday, March 19, 2022 |
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HB1837 HD1 a good vehicle for identifying Hawaii housing barriers
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:44 PM :: 2321 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... first step toward identifying the regulatory barriers that restrain homebuilding in Hawaii and has led to the state’s notoriously high cost of housing ....
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Sunday, March 13, 2022 |
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Can we please try some housing policies that work, like the ‘Tokyo model’?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:18 PM :: 3222 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii had robust housing construction up until about 1972 or 1973, but then it collapsed and it has never recovered ....
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 |
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'Tokyo Model' Can Create More Housing for Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:00 PM :: 3034 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... how Tokyo’s deregulation of its housing market resulted in more housing availability and affordable housing prices ....
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 |
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Maui’s Automated Planning and Permitting System to launch April 18
By News Release @ 10:00 AM :: 2341 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... a new, web-based software designed to support planning and permit processing ....
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Sunday, February 13, 2022 |
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America’s Rising Housing Prices
By Selected News Articles @ 3:27 AM :: 3001 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... In 1961, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to pass a growth-management law. ...
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Sunday, February 6, 2022 |
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ALOHA Homes: Unintended Consequences
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:49 PM :: 2407 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... 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 ....
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Thursday, February 3, 2022 |
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SB2242 Hikes both income and capital gains taxes
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:46 AM :: 4679 Views :: Development, Small Business, Taxes
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... thus raising the state’s top income tax rate from 11% to 13% ....
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Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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“11th Hour” changes could jeopardize property rights of Kahoma Village residents
By News Release @ 10:28 PM :: 3407 Views :: Maui County, Development
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..."I am always concerned by any piece of legislation that is not signed by Corporation Counsel...." -- Mayor Victorino
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Saturday, January 29, 2022 |
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Blangiardi Exempts Affordable rentals from GE Tax
By News Release @ 4:31 PM :: 3576 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes
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... New incentives approved to spur development of affordable rentals ....
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Saturday, January 8, 2022 |
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Hotel moratorium bill: Maui Council Overrides Veto
By News Release @ 2:19 PM :: 4142 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism
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“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."
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Thursday, January 6, 2022 |
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Statewide Historic Preservation Plan to be Updated
By News Release @ 3:02 AM :: 2577 Views :: Development, Land Use, OHA
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... The first meeting is scheduled for 5:30-8:30 PM, Friday, January 14 ....
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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 :: 3173 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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Saturday, October 23, 2021 |
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City to hold hearings on new affordable housing rules
By News Release @ 2:09 PM :: 2789 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Cost of Living
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... DPP will hold two public hearings to gather community input on the newly proposed measures ....
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Sunday, August 8, 2021 |
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A Policy Statement About Fines
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3874 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Law Enforcement
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... Bill 17 would allow the city’s Department of Planning and Permitting to record liens against property and then to foreclose on the liens....
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021 |
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White House Touts 'Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act' for Hawaii
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 3918 Views :: National News, Development, Rail
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"...For decades, infrastructure in Hawaii has suffered from a systemic lack of investment...."
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 |
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Mayor Victorino vetoes hotel construction moratorium bill
By News Release @ 10:48 PM :: 3463 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism
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"... concerned about unintended consequences such as pushing hospitality developments into communities outside of Maui’s resort areas ...."
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Monday, July 19, 2021 |
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Next Boondoggle: USACE, City of Honolulu Sign Agreement for Ala Wai Flood Study
By News Release @ 11:02 PM :: 4454 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Military
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... The signing allows USACE and the City and County of Honolulu to develop a salespitch that appears to balance costs and environmental impacts ....
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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 :: 5290 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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Wednesday, July 7, 2021 |
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Mayor Victorino to reserve additional water source allocation for affordable housing
By News Release @ 3:17 AM :: 2927 Views :: Maui County, Development
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“...I am prioritizing our resident workforce as the first beneficiaries of this water to motivate construction of right-priced housing as soon as possible....”
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