SUBMIT TESTIMONY HERE:http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/submittestimony.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=755 The House is planning a major ‘bait and switch’ amendment to SB 755 (originally dealing with playing internet poker!). It would allow the governor and all the mayors to exempt projects from HRS 343. A major part of the amendment is found hidden in “Part VI”. Other parts are also bad. Schedule: […]
Mahalo For Your Testimony on the Maui Island Plan
Mahalo to those who attended or send comments to the recent General Plan committee meeting on March 14. The Council Committee DID hear our message and adopted a chart of Growth Boundaries & land use planning forms that included “a separate, defined Country Town” designation, renamed as “small town” (this is because many council members […]
Council Rejects Spence’s Revision of General Plan
The General Plan Committee of the Maui County Council voted 8-0 to reject revisions to the directed growth element of the Maui Island Plan offered by Maui County Department of Planning Director Will Spence. The revision proposal stirred controversy because it removed the details which put “teeth” into the Maui Island Plan, and engendered much […]
Testimony on Undersea Cable Bill (Pro and Con)
Read pdf of testimony
Feds Take Oversight of Ocean Energy Projects
The Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed under former President George Bush gives oversight of ocean energy technologies to the Federal government. Projects in Hawaii that could come under federal oversight include wave energy projects and the proposed interisland cable system. Hawaiian Electric Co. is currently working on putting in place energy projects that can […]
Video – Maui Island Plan
http://youtu.be/o5nUREX6itQ