Slaughterhouse Operator Wins Reprieve From DLNR Effort to Reclaim Feedlot
When will All American Trucking remove its unauthorized baseyard on the state’s ‘Ewa feedlot parcel at Campbell Industrial Park? “If we have to ask the question six ways from Sunday, it gets frustrating,” Kaiwi Yoon told Hawai‘i Meats president Bobby … Continued
New & Noteworthy: Housing Scandal, Seabed Mining, and a Correction
Hawaiʻi Housing Scandal: Federal court schedules concerning the criminal conspiracy to defraud the Hawaiʻi County Office of Housing and Community Development have been set, cancelled, and set again. On November 2, U.S. Magistrate Judge Rom Trader approved a request to … Continued
Efforts to Accommodate Commercial Fishing Delays Hearings on Proposed Catch Limits
After holding 19 scoping meetings that reached more than 500 members of the public, the state Division of Aquatic Resources last month presented to the Board of Land and Natural Resources proposed rule amendments aimed at protecting herbivore species that … Continued
Coral, Live Rock Damage Cases Result In Fines, a Dismissal, and a Contested Case
Case No. 1: On May 28, 2021, based on two anonymous tips about a vessel’s chain dragging along the sea floor and damaging coral, staff from three divisions within the state Department of Land and Natural Resources boarded a 54-foot red … Continued
Challenge to 26 Solar Projects in Ka‘u Proceeds Slowly Toward Conclusion
When is the total less than the sum of its parts? That seems to be at the heart of the issue that the Public Utilities Commission confronts as it gears up to conclude a years-long dispute over a solar energy … Continued
DLNR Almost Missed Out On Nearly $200,000 in Rent
On December 9, the Land Board backtracked on its November 10 decision regarding the continuation of four revocable water permits to Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., and East Maui Irrigation Co., which A&B co-owns with Mahi Pono, LLC. Mahi Pono grows … Continued
New Kona School Plans Raise Concerns About Financing, Affordable Housing
Dawn Chang, a member of the state Land Use Commission, had a question for David Hamilton, president of the non-accredited University of the Nations-Kona, relating to the school’s plans for developing about 62 acres of undeveloped land adjoining the existing … Continued
EDITORIAL: Kona Development Puts LUC in Uncharted Territory
What on earth is going on at the University of the Nations-Kona? More specifically, what is the Land Use Commission going to do with the messy situation that confronts it? The development proposal that prompted the LUC to redistrict 62 … Continued