State Water Division Contracts Are Issued Before Permits Received The state Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Water and Land Development has routinely signed contracts for water development projects without assurance that permits for them will be issued … Continued
Boating Division, Lana`i Tour Company Ignore Conservation District Rules Trilogy Corporation, a firm that takes visitors on day trips from Lahaina to Lana`i, is planning to build a picnic pavilion, convenience store and snack shop, all to be housed in … Continued
A reader asks: What is happening with the state’s desalination plant at the Campbell Industrial Park on O`ahu? Construction of the plant was completed in August 1990 at a cost of $6.2 million. Campbell Estate contributed $2 million and land. … Continued
On June 6, 1987, George A. Magoon Sr. died of a cardiac infarction. For the next six years, his estate was locked up in probate. Claimants to his estate were many, including his third ex–wife, Velma Lee, incarcerated at the … Continued
On July 12, 1990, Richard A Stellmacher, an appraiser hired by the state, accompanied George A. Magoon II on a tour of a 40-acre shoreline parcel owned by members of the Magoon family at Mahai’ula, just north of the Keahole … Continued
The Kona Coast State Park has been more than two decades in the making — and, despite expenditures by the state of more than $30 million for land acquisition alone, it may be decades more before visitors to the park … Continued
To make sure that non-residents receiving income from the sale of real property in Hawai`i pay the necessary Hawai`i taxes on that income, state law mandates that the buyer of the property must withhold taxes on payments to the non-residents. … Continued
On February 16, 1993, the state of Hawai`i cut a check for $13 million payable to two parties: Blue Point Land Development, Inc., and its attorneys, Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel. The check was the second of two payments totaling … Continued