In a case that could have implications across the state, owners of more than a dozen homes used as vacation rentals on Kauai’s North Shore have filed suit against the state for allegedly violating homeowners’ rights in a conservation district.
The suit, filed Monday in Circuit Court, claims that a provision in the homeowners’ Conservation District [...]

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A resolution moving forward in the state Legislature threatens to undermine county ordinances regulating vacation rentals on agricultural land, but may clarify an ambiguous state law affecting hundreds of landowners, officials said yesterday.
Critics ranging from county councils to farm bureaus submitted testimony last week strongly opposing the proposed legislation and questioning the abnormal process by [...]

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Hawaii’s verdant volcanic peaks and crystalline waters have made tourism the state’s biggest industry. But not all Hawaii residents are thrilled by the millions who flock to their shores.
They complain that some of the visitors renting homes and rooms in their residential neighborhoods create noise, drive up home and rental prices and destroy the sense [...]

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The county should prohibit new single-family and multi-family vacation rentals outside of county-designated visitor destination areas, while allowing continuation of legal units.
Kaua‘i County Councilwoman JoAnn Yukimura offered those ideas as the main thrust behind a bill to regulate the burgeoning vacation rental business on Kaua‘i.
She made her points during yesterday’s meeting of the council’s Planning [...]

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In light of a state investigation into alleged unauthorized use of 16 Ha‘ena homes as vacation rentals on state conservation lands, some residents yesterday asked the Kaua‘i County Council to upgrade an existing county law to improve regulation of the vacation rental business.
But the Council Planning Committee meeting at the historic County Building was punctuated [...]

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The state Department of Land and Natural Resources has issued notices to 16 property owners in Ha‘ena to halt alleged unauthorized use of multi-million-dollar homes as vacation rentals.
Most of the 16 homes are on makai, or on the ocean side, of Kuhio Highway, from the YMCA’s Camp Naue to Limahuli Stream. Most are clustered around [...]

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