‘Pioneer’ OCCL Director Retires At the Land Board’s December 10 meeting, Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands administrator Sam Lemmo announced that he would be retiring at the end of the month after 30 years … Continued
“We have to find a way forward somehow. Sometimes that way forward is very messy,” said state Board of Land and Natural Resources chair Suzanne Case as the board met on October 22. At that meeting, the board narrowly rejected … Continued
With members touting the need to support diversified agriculture, the Board of Land and Natural Resources unanimously voted on September 24 to accept the final environmental impact statement Alexander & Baldwin and East Maui irrigation Company had prepared for a … Continued
(This article has been corrected to reflect that Category 3 projects are those where 1,000 up to 25,000 cubic yards of sand are placed on a beach. We had erroneously stated that Category 3 projects were those that used more … Continued
“It is a very dire situation. We have some strategies, and we’re pursuing them as fast as possible on parallel tracks, but it’s a lot of fingers crossed right now,” Department of Land and Natural Resources director Suzanne Case told … Continued
“Grandfathered seawall! … Motivated seller!” a December 2018 sales pitch for the property at 59-175C Ke Nui Road on Oʻahu’s famed Sunset Beach proclaimed. Motivated, indeed. Within three months, the owner sold the lot for about half a million dollars … Continued
Land Board Fines Trash Hauler $62,000 for Leaving Full Roll-Offs On State Land Being contrite might have helped, but John Guinan, Jr., owner of The Trash Man, LLC hauling company, chose to fight. He ended up with a fine nearly … Continued
For the last five years, the state Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) has basically had to ignore its normal duties of protecting and helping manage Hawai‘i’s natural resources. “Homelessness has taken away from all that,” DOCARE officer Gerard Villalobos … Continued
Dumper Claims DLNR Owes Damages for Removed Bin As if the DLNR didn’t have enough problems with dumping on its lands, late last year, the agency’s Land Division learned that someone left a roll-off container full of trash on an … Continued
Land Board Grants Permits, Easements For ‘Auwai Repair Projects in East Maui In the midst of a years-long legal battle with the state Board of Land and Natural Resources over its decisions to allow Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., to divert water from … Continued