Last October, U.S. District Judge Jill A. Otake granted a motion by the City & County of Honolulu and its Department of Planning and Permitting for summary judgment on a complaint brought in May 2023 by companies owned by the … Continued
Facing fines of more than $3.1 million, the landowner who paid for the unauthorized clearing of coastal vegetation — including endangered Hawaiian yellow-faced bee habitat —at Marconi Point in October 2023 has tried to shift the blame onto his contractor. … Continued
On May 8, the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands will request that the Board of Land and Natural Resources approve a settlement agreement for a violation case brought on April 26, 2024, regarding … Continued
On October 31, 2023, architect Tonia Moy emailed Jessica Puff and Mary Kodama of the State Historic Preservation Division’s architecture branch, introducing them to Sushil Garg, the new owner of lands that included the historic Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station on … Continued
LUC Nominees: On April 22, Governor Josh Green informed the Senate that he was withdrawing the nomination of Nancy Carr Smith for a second term on the Land Use Commission. According to the LUC, she will serve through June 30. … Continued
Russell Tsuji, until last year the longtime administrator of the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Land Division, is suing the DLNR and Dawn Chang, chair of the Board of Land and Natural Resources. His lawsuit, filed in 1st Circuit … Continued
The state is one step closer to turning a parcel in Wahiawā that has long been a public health and safety concern into a new substation for the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement. … Continued
Whether short-term vacation rentals can exist on land in the state Agricultural District seemed for a while a question that the Supreme Court had decided once and for all back in September 2024. That month, the high court issued a … Continued