Days before the departure of the Big Island administration of Mayor Harry Kim, the Hawai`i County Planning Department released draft guidelines for monitoring water quality in West Hawai`i. The “Revised Monitoring Protocol Guidelines” would, if adopted, establish more uniform reporting … Continued
Virgin Paper Chase: Once again, the Department of Accounting and General Services is seeking an exemption from the requirement that it purchase paper with recycled content for printing state checks. According to the exemption request that state Controller Russell Saito … 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
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
Efforts by the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council to incite Native Hawaiians to rise up in protest against nearshore fishery regulations go back several years. The first public manifestation of this campaign occurred in August 2006, when a puwalu, or … Continued
“To some extent, we’ve been had,” said the chairman of the state Land Use Commission, commenting on the painfully slow progress by landowners to move forward with a development proposed in the area of Puako, on the Kohala Coast of … Continued