December 2016 PDF
December 2016
HC&S Claims Diversified Ag Needs Will Exceed 100 Million Gallons a Day
On January 9, the contested case hearing on Na Moku Aupuni o Ko‘olau Hui’s 2001 petition to amend the interim instream flow standards (IIFS) of 27 East Maui streams resumes. The group, which includes native Hawaiian taro farmers and cultural … Continued
Board Talk: Wind Farm, Water Holdovers
Opponents Block Efforts to Allow Wind Farm to Harm Rare Animals On November 10, multiple requests for a contested case hearing forced the state Board of Land and Natural Resources to defer taking action on a request by the Department … Continued
Telescope Opponents Raise Issues of Religion, Kingdom, and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
For more than a decade, beginning in 1992, Riki May Amano served as a judge in Hawai‘i’s 3rd Judicial Circuit, which, like all judicial circuits in the state, is bound by strict rules of evidence and procedure that, generally speaking, … Continued
Slow Going in TMT Contested Case; Hearings to Continue into New Year
The evidentiary hearing in the second contested case over the application to build the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea began October 20 in the Willie K Crown Room of the Hilo Naniloa Hotel. The nightclub setting for the quasi-judicial … Continued
November 2016 PDF
November 2016
Waikoloa Highlands Development At Standstill, 8 Years After LUC Action
More than eight years ago, the state Land Use Commission reclassified a 731-acre parcel just upslope of the village of Waikoloa, in the South Kohala district of the Big Island. It shifted the land use classification from Agricultural to Rural … Continued
Wild Fluctuations in Tax Revenue On Waikoloa Highlands Property
In January 2014, the Hawai`i County Department of Finance prepared a list of those properties it intended to auction on January 16 for failure to pay property taxes. Ten of the 76 parcels belonged to Waikoloa Mauka, LLC. At virtually … Continued
Original Waikoloa Highlands Partners Share History of Cocaine Trafficking
April 24, 2007. At a meeting of the Waikoloa Village Association, Waikoloa Mauka, LLC, principal Stephan Martirosian made a short presentation on his company’s plans for the area and presented a check for $25,000 to association president Margaret Tigue. The … Continued