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August 1997

29 Oct 2014

Planning Director Initiates Zone Changes To Expedite Approvals for Private Owners

by Teresa | posted in: August 1997 | 0

The administration of Big Island Mayor Steve Yamashiro has embarked on a series of zone changes whose primary beneficiaries are private landowners. One of the largest and earliest of these is the boundary amendment petition covering lands in North Kona … Continued

29 Oct 2014

New Policy Lets Big Isle Developers Subdivide Without Making Improvements

by Teresa | posted in: August 1997 | 0

The administration of Big Island mayor Steve Yamashiro has adopted a policy that could lead to a new round of substandard subdivisions – not in Puna and Ka’u this time, but marching up the Hamakua Coast and around the north … Continued

29 Oct 2014

Complex Legal Issues Surround A&B's Taking of East Maui Water

by Teresa | posted in: August 1997, Water | 0

The term of the first water license granted to Alexander and Baldwin was 20 years. Now, more than a century after that first license expired in 1896, A&B and its subsidiary, East Maui Irrigation Company, Ltd., take water from the … Continued

29 Oct 2014

Battle Looms Over Waters Diverted from East Maui Streams

by Teresa | posted in: August 1997, Water | 0

The taro lo`i of Ke`anae and Wailuanui in East Maui are surely among the most photographed in the islands, ranking high along with the famous patchwork of irrigated rice and taro fields at Hanalei Valley on Kaua`i or the shimmering … Continued


IN THIS ISSUE

  • August 2026 PDF August 3, 2026
  • Attorney General Bails Out ADC With Loan to Cover NPDES Challenge August 3, 2026
  • EDITORIAL: The Costly Debacle of the ADC’s NPDES Challenge August 3, 2026
  • The Special Deputy AG’s Fees August 3, 2026
  • Black metal fence around tropical planter New & Noteworthy: State Supreme Court Issues Decisions On Maui Grading Permit, SMA Rules August 3, 2026
  • Rocky riverbed with bridge and lush forest In Sierra Club Appeal, Judge Reverses Water Permit, Orders Contested Case on East Maui Diversions August 3, 2026
  • Kama‘ole Designation Petition Languishes While Groundwater Flow Study Proceeds August 3, 2026
  • Aerial view of coastal buildings with solar panels ICA Upholds Dismissal of SLAPP Against Marconi Point Unit Owners August 3, 2026
  • Efforts to Protect Kahuku Coastal Lands Make Headway at City Council and in Court August 3, 2026

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