The Honolulu City Council will vote tomorrow (Wednesday, April 17) on two bills dealing with vacation rentals.
Chuck Prentiss, a retired planner for the City & County of Honolulu and a former executive secretary of the Honolulu Planning Commission, and a former chair of the Kailua Neighborhood Board, urges support for Bill 85, and strong opposition to Bill 89 CD1.
“If Bill 89 CD1 gets adopted our neighborhoods will forever be resort zones,” Prentiss warns.
Here is his email distributed earlier this week.
Aloha.
If you oppose vacation rentals in you neighborhood please testify or submit testimony at this Wednesday’s City Council hearing.
Bill 85 (good bill) which has new enforcement measures and Bill 89 CD1 (bad bill) which would allow up to 4,000 more B&B’s islandwide (up to 350 in Kailua) are up for second reading at the meeting.
Please support Bill 85 that will provide new methods to enforce against illegal vacation rentals. Please strongly oppose Bill 89 CD1 that would allow the new B&B’s.
The meeting notice link is below and can also be found on the City Council web site. The two bills are shown on page 9 of the agenda.
Submitting testimony is very easy, the instructions are given on page one on the agenda. Even a simple “support Bill 85 and oppose Bill 89 CD1 would help.”
It is crunch time for these bills and our neighborhoods. There is only one more City Council hearing after this one and that will be just a formality. So please take the time now to attend or submit testimony, if Bill 89 CD1 gets adopted our neighborhoods will forever be resort zones.
We need a lot more testimony than was submitted at the last hearing. It now or never!
See:
Honolulu City Council Agenda for April 17, 2019
Link for submitting testimony
(Submitting testimony is very easy and only takes a few minutes)
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Sad…a BILLION and half folks in China could agree on reforms, but money talks to leaders and citizens have no sway in Communist China.
Similarly in Hawaii well funded Air B&B has the means to bank/steam roll what they want. Like 1959’s Democratic revolution failed to make real change over Big 5 rule. Change simple replaced Caucasians by a majority of Asian minorities of pre 59’. Replacement by well paid, Union / HGEA Principals – Managers and liberal professors now completely dominating elite privileges at private institutions like Punahou and Pacific Club.
The John Burns “Wave” simple changed riders. The Big 5 today are survivor A&B / Mattson, HECO, HMSA, Weinberg and Kamehameha Schools (Managers not commoners). They are all significantly tax exempt!