Tantalus Couple Seeks Damages, Fights Enforcement Regarding Land Boards’ Conservation District Decisions A couple that owns an old two-story house on rainy Tantalus Drive reached out a few years ago to the state Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands to … Continued
Land Board Calls For Two Appraisals To Determine Rent for Maui Wind Farm At its September 26 meeting, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources did something unusual. It directed its appraiser to prepare two appraisals for a proposed … Continued
Kaheawa Wind Farm Faces Tight Timeline To Mitigate Nēnē Takes Before Holdover Ends Kaheawa Wind Power I, Maui’s first wind farm, is facing the possibility of being shut down. That’s the consequence if it fails to comply soon with mitigation … Continued
Board Members Question Progress Of Army Corps Ordnance Clearing At its April 11 meeting, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources approved a right-of-entry permit to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for remediation work on about 4,000 acres … Continued
Land Board Grants 65-year Lease For Oʻahu’s First Resilience Hub Last month, the Department of Land and Natural Resources’s Land Division recommended granting a 10-year lease for nearly five acres in the back of Hauʻula to the nonprofit Hui O … Continued
Board Grants Permit to Former Tenant To Close, Remediate Moloaʻa Well Site On February 14, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources granted a right-of-entry permit to allow Jeffrey Lindner to finish capping a well, remove any pipelines and … Continued
Board Denies Permits For Hololani Revetment In a 4-3 vote, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources denied a recommendation to amend a 2018 board action to include approvals of a construction right-of-entry permit for a rock revetment fronting … Continued
On October 11, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources voted unanimously to fine Juan and Judith Silva $85,000 for unauthorized modifications to a single-family residence and placement of accessory structures within their 11.8-acre property in the Conservation District … Continued
After More Than A Decade of Fighting, Kahala Resort Abandons Chair Presetting “I am pleased to see that Resorttrust Hawaii, LLC has finally thrown in the towel (into the towel caddy placed on its own land),” wrote David Kimo Frankel … Continued
At its meeting of April 26, the Board of Land and Natural Resources was considering proposed fines against landowners at Marconi Point who were alleged to have violated state laws relating to the Conservation District and protected species. Dozens of … Continued