Land Use

... 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 ....

... how many years will depend on which path is taken ....

... 'Minatoya List' short-term rentals are condotels competing with the ILWU controlled hotels.  That is why they are being targeted ....

“... It’s absurd, the socialist mentality, they think they own the land ....”

... 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 ....

... councillors representing a higher number of homeowners are more likely to oppose housing bills ....

... 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 ....

... testimony to the Honolulu, Maui and Kauai county councils about measures that could increase the supply of housing ....

... 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 ....

... 99 agricultural parcels, totaling 21,672 acres ....

... all boards involved in an affordable housing project covered by the proclamation should comply with the Sunshine Law’s requirements ....

... Fallow agricultural lands now comprise approximately 40% of all agricultural lands or 25% of lands across the state ....

... Hawaii Bar Association discusses Lahaina fires .... 

“...Does social housing actually work? Setting the record straight on the Vienna Model....”

... fake 'investigation' ends as soon as Maui Council ponies up political capital ....

“...once in a while, go in and break the system....” 

... 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 ....

... allowing homebuilding on lot sizes smaller than currently allowed ....

... Are Hawaii’s water policies sufficient for fighting fires? ....

... customize data reports based on location, with information such as property and rental market, demographics, zoning and housing stock ....

"...the same bureaucracy and NIMBY-ism is happening with that emergency proclamation...."

... 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 ....

... Yes.  'Your' legislators are supporting Kaleo Manuel ....

... this just had some devastating consequences ....

"Now all this is…an abuse of the emergency power that won't fast-track housing."

... the EP didn’t and doesn’t create any permanent change in government.  We need our legislature and county councils to do that ....

... Threats of violence ....

... policies the Maui Council can implement to boost the County's economy and encourage reconstruction in Lahaina ....

... Here are some of the highlights:  Adds “affordable” housing to the title ....

... Joe Rogan and Tulsi Gabbard on the government screwing over the residents of Maui to take their land ....

... peoples’ homes and businesses are at stake, and their right to those properties must be defended ....

"...Threats have been made against me, loved ones who don’t even work for the government, and even children...."

... 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 ....

... Native Hawaiian interest groups and environmental organizations joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii and the Sierra Club on Thursday ....

... "The proclamation usurps all government power into the hands of one unelected former lobbyist" said Petitioner Tom Coffman ....

... An emergency proclamation by Gov. Josh Green offers developers the opportunity to route around almost all regulations on building homes ....

... most cities in the U.S. have required arbitrary amounts of parking to be built with every new building or new business ....

... it selectively grants regulatory relief to projects designated by a committee of housing “czars” ....

... 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. ....

... 'Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner' at DLNR is transferred to new job after allegedly prioritizing taro patch over Lahaina firefighting ....

"We’ll also invest state resources to preserve and protect this land for our people; not for any development"

... “It really does is just put pressure on the Legislature and say, ‘Are you going to act?'"....

... Because it is temporary, Green’s Proclamation ensures that too few projects will be approved to actually bring down the cost of housing ....

... a 1961 land-use law and subsequent amendments placed most of the land in the state off limits to development ....

... PRO Housing to reduce barriers to affordable housing production by helping local communities address restrictive zoning, land use, and regulatory policies. It also expands financing for affordable, energy-efficient, and resilient housing, and promotes commercial-to-residential conversion ....

... The proposed critical habitat areas include the states of California, Florida, Hawaiʻi, North Carolina and Texas; the territories of American Samoa, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands; and the commonwealths of the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico ....

...“This emergency proclamation is one of the largest state-level housing actions anywhere in the country in years, if not decades," said Senator Stanley Chang, chair of the Senate Committee on Housing....

... why have prices spiked over the past half-century? ....

... The Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a plan that will give it more flexibility in helping species recover when their historic range is no longer suitable for survival ....

... to transfer non-ag park lands to the Department of Agriculture (DOA) for agricultural production ....