On November 24, the state Land Use Commission considered, as attorney Steve Lim described it, a “death penalty” case. Would the commission decide to revert more than 700 acres of land near Waikoloa Village to the Agricultural land use district? … Continued
Board Denies Contested Case On Permits for East Maui Water On December 14, the Board of Land and Natural Resources denied a request by the Sierra Club of Hawai‘i for a contested case hearing on the renewal of four permits … Continued
This Page 2 of this PDF has been edited to reflect’s David Kimo Frankel’s argument that the board violated the state’s coastal zone management law (Hawai`i Revised Statutes Ch. 205A), not the state land use law. January 2019
Maui Goes to Court: Maui County is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review – and overturn – the decision of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last February that found the county was operating its Lahaina wastewater treatment … Continued
The Kahala Hotel & Resort didn’t get everything it wanted, but it did get the Board of Land and Natural Resources to condone — albeit conditionally — what many consider to be commercial uses under a permit that had long … Continued
Where are the bigeye? According to recent reports from the fishing front, that question has been uppermost in the minds of the captains and crew of Hawai‘i longline vessels for most of this year. From January 1 to June 30, … Continued
Just how strict should the state be on Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (A&B), and its subsidiary, East Maui Irrigation Company, Ltd. (EMI), when it comes to policing the permits that allow them to divert tens of millions of gallons of … Continued
In a long-awaited decision issued on October 30, the Hawai‘i Supreme Court determined that the state Board of Land and Natural Resources did not err when it awarded a Conservation District Use Permit (CDUP) for construction of the Thirty Meter … Continued
December 2018
“There’s a Hawaiian word, kapulu,” Jonathan Scheuer noted near the end of a two-day hearing of the state Land Use Commission on the stalled Waikoloa Highlands project. Scheuer, commission chair, continued. “Kapulu, that’s a shame thing to have. This project has … Continued