Once again, the City and County of Honolulu is in a pickle over the continued operation of the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill, O`ahu’s only municipal solid waste facility. The city’s special use permit from the state Land Use Commission, which … Continued
Land Board Extends Deadlines to Complete Timber Mill It’s been about a decade since the state Board of Land and Natural Resources issued a timber land license to Tradewinds Forest Products, LLC, to log a portion of the state’s Waiakea … Continued
Kelly Greenwell was in high dudgeon. Addressing fellow members of the Hawai`i County on the subject of a resolution he had introduced to protest an aerial hunt to eradicate wild cattle in a state forest reserve, Greenwell fulminated, “This was … Continued
Last month, the state Land Use Commission began its hearing on the petition of the City and County of Honolulu to amend the land use district boundary around west O`ahu’s Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill, changing it from Agricultural to Urban. … Continued
Rarely does the tension in a Land Use Commission meeting rise to the level of spine-tingling. But the LUC’s hearing April 30 on the fate of 1,060 acres of Urban land owned by Bridge `Aina Le`a was high drama indeed. … Continued
PingSun Leung and Matthew Loke. “Economic Impacts of Increasing Hawai`i’s Food Self-Sufficiency.” Cooperative Extension Service, Economic Issues, Dec. 2008 (EI-16). Cooperative Extension Service, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai`i at Manoa. David S. Battisti and Rosamond … Continued
The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council’s vote to make certain records available to the public only through Freedom of Information Act requests and others available not at all came exactly one week after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder issued instructions … Continued
Board Discussion of Mauna Kea Plan Hints at Controversies Yet to Come “Mauna Kea is where heaven, earth and stars find union. Not just any heaven, but Wakea, not just any earth, but Papahanaumoku, and not just any constellation of … Continued
The greatest financial support for the third puwalu, held in Honolulu on December 19-20, 2006, came not from the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council or the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Rather, it came from the state Coastal Zone Management program, … Continued
A draft agreement between the Hawai`i County Office of Housing and Community Development and Bridge `Aina Le`a calls for Bridge to receive up to two credits for each unit of affordable housing it builds. Under the county Affordable Housing Code, … Continued