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
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On October 29, Governor Josh Green announced the appointment of V.R. Hinano Rodrigues to fill the spot on the Commission on Water Resource Management reserved for an expert in Hawaiian culture and traditions. Within a week, a complaint alleging numerous … Continued
Hawaiʻi law provides for an unusual – in Hawaiʻi, at least – process to select members of the state Commission on Water Resource Management. A special four-person committee considers applicants for vacancies on the commission. Two of them are named … Continued
News of the selection of V.R. Hinano Rodrigues was not welcomed by many of the same groups who had pushed to have the governor pick a candidate from the two remaining on the original list forwarded to him in February. … Continued
Kona Three Goes Down: The long and fraught controversy over a housing development proposed more than 40 years ago just south of Kailua-Kona seems to have come to an end. On November 20, the Hawaiʻi County Council voted down a … Continued
“What more due process do you want?” Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins asked David Kimo Frankel last month. Frankel is the attorney representing the Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi in a lawsuit over the state Board of Land and Natural … Continued
RCA Trade Center, Inc., and MP Unit 21, LLC, are not letting go of their lawsuit against a couple that complained last year about large warehouses erected near its home within the Marconi Point Condominiums project. The companies hope to … Continued
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The eight agricultural warehouses that stand out like sore thumbs within the Marconi Point Condominums property on Oʻahu’s North Shore are massive and, except for one of them, indefinitely empty. Whether they will ever start storing the fertilizer, seed, and … Continued