The owners of lands beneath and surrounding the Waiakalua Reservoir in North Kaua`i are facing $65,000 in fines if they don’t steadily progress toward making the sugarcane plantation-era fixture safer. The reservoir is relatively small compared to the Kaloko Reservoir, … Continued
Wire Leader Ban: The National Marine Fisheries Service has published a final rule that, effective May 31, will ban the use of steel wire leaders by Hawai`i longline fishing vessels that target tunas. The leader is the part of the … Continued
Can a Solar Farm Coexist with Cattle Pens? Renewable Energy Company Will Investigate A renewable energy developer pursuing a project on lands leased by the state’s central slaughterhouse received a right-of-entry permit from the Board of Land and Natural Resources … Continued
Kihei High Update: “While construction of the two classroom buildings, administration building, and locker rooms is proceeding at a brisk pace, due to some unavoidable construction and material delays, we have been informed that completion of these new facilities will … Continued
Hawaiʻi County Sued in Federal Court Over Closure of Waipiʻo Valley Road Hawaiʻi County mayor Mitch Roth announced on February 24 that he was immediately closing the only road leading into Waipiʻo Valley to all but residents and farmers for … Continued
By Patricia Tummons One of the key features of the Hawaiʻi planning law is the placement of all land in the state into one of four land use districts: Conservation, Agricultural, Rural, or Urban. And another key feature, until last … Continued
Photo: Ted Hong, attorney for Community Based Education Support Services. By Patricia Tummons In the end, it wasn’t even close. By the time the Land Use Commission was set to vote on a special permit allowing the construction of a … Continued
‘Aina Le‘a, Inc., owner of more than 1,000 acres of land near the Big Island town of Waikoloa, has effectively lost a foreclosure lawsuit that was brought against it by the creditor whose loan allowed the company to climb out … Continued
Deputy attorney general Stuart Fujioka lobbed a sandbag at the members of the Land Use Commission when it met on October 27. And the commissioners were not pleased. The LUC is a quasi-judicial body, with procedures governed by a set … Continued
One of the first actions taken by the new administration of Hawaiʻi County Mayor Mitch Roth following his inauguration last December was to soften the county’s stance toward the ʻAina Leʻa development. The previous administration had been insisting that the … Continued