It's a ringing slogan, but I expect that most people looking for housing now are different people than the workers who originally lived there 30 or more years ago. (And it wasn't theirs, unless it...
It's a ringing slogan, but I expect that most people looking for housing now are different people than the workers who originally lived there 30 or more years ago. (And it wasn't theirs, unless it was, in which case they might be the ones renting it out.)
True, though offering preferential opportunities to the children of those originally from the community would be a nice gesture. There's policy that can be created for that.
True, though offering preferential opportunities to the children of those originally from the community would be a nice gesture. There's policy that can be created for that.
Lahaina residents got a victory this week in the passing of Senate Bill 2919, which clarifies the counties’ authority to regulate short-term rentals. It will be signed into law by Gov. Josh Green on Friday.
Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen is now proposing county legislation that would phase out vacation rentals in apartment-zoned areas.
“If successful, this legislation will support the return of approximately 7,000 transient vacation rentals (TVRs) to the local housing market and specifically 2,200 in West Maui, again, for long-term rental consideration,” he said at a joint press conference Thursday alongside grassroots community organization Lahaina Strong.
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[The units] have been operating under an exemption that grandfathered in units built before 1989 to operate as short-term rentals. The new legislation would repeal that decision, bringing more housing for residents.
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She explained the Minatoya list's origins began in the 1980s when offshore investors started buying condos on Maui to "capitalize on the vacation rental market," which rapidly reduced housing inventory, she said.
"In response, the council in 1989 attempted to limit STRs to the hotel zone where it should be," continued Rawlins-Fernandez. "In 1991, that council clarified the restriction on short-term rentals for all properties built after '91 that were not zoned hotel," she said.
"The Deputy Corporation Counsel Richard Minatoya co-authored an opinion negating the 1991 ordinance, providing an exemption to units built before March 4, 1991, allowing the owners to continue profiting off the units since that time. In 2015, Mayor Arakawa and the council passed a law that codified Mr. Minatoya’s opinion, that this bill today seeks to repeal," she explained.
Good - give these people their homes back. Same goes for historical and downtown areas in any major city.
It's a ringing slogan, but I expect that most people looking for housing now are different people than the workers who originally lived there 30 or more years ago. (And it wasn't theirs, unless it was, in which case they might be the ones renting it out.)
True, though offering preferential opportunities to the children of those originally from the community would be a nice gesture. There's policy that can be created for that.
From the article:
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