“Lanikai Hale,” the name Ralph and Betty Engelstad have given their proposed house on Conservation District land, maybe loosely translated as house of the heavenly sea. The controversy that has surrounded it, however, can fairly be described as hellish. In … Continued
The application of Indonesian businessman T.P. Liem to build a house on Hawea Point, Maui, provides an excellent illustration of the problems that emerge from a permissive interpretation of Land Board policy with regard to development in Conservation District lands … Continued
The merits of the application, not the applicant, are to be taken to account by the Land Board in deciding CDUAs. But to anyone trying to understand the Engelstad case, personality may be of more than passing interest. According to … Continued
The Department’s Administrative Rules set forth guidelines for classifying lands into each subzone. This summary is drawn from the copy of the rules (§13-2-11 through §13-2-15) distributed to the public by the Office of Conservation and Environmental Affairs at the … Continued
Here is a guide to some of terms that frequently crop up in discussions of Conservation District use. It is based on Title 13, Subtitle I, Chapters 1 and 2 of the Administrative Rules of the Department of Land and … Continued
The request of David Fazendin to build a house on a ridgeline of Mount Olomana, in Windward O`ahu, has received much publicity lately. Just how large a house he will be able to build, and where, are questions unsettled as … Continued
White Elephants on Rampage: Take Careful Aim Conservation District lands were set aside as an attempt to balance growth in certain areas of the state against the public’s need to protect resources. The value of those resources can be economic … Continued
Residential development of Conservation District land may strike some environmentalists as a trivial problem. Usually, no critical habitat for rare or endangered species is involved. Rarely is the area proposed for development pristine. Nonetheless, the case histories presented here suggest … Continued