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System to manage getaway leases up for dialogue at City Council convention
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Restricted-expression trip leases are up for dialogue Wednesday at a Honolulu Metropolis Council committee assembly. Bill 41 would solely permit brief-phrase getaway leases and mattress-and-breakfast households near trip resort-zoned elements like Waikiki, the Gold Shoreline near Diamond Head, Turtle Bay and Ko Olina Trip resort. Owners of unpermitted vacation trip leases wouldn’t be able to lease their fashions for significantly lower than 90 occasions. Householders say the technique illegally takes away residence rights, regardless that residents say the vacation leases are having their rights. If the Zoning and Establishing committee approves the invoice Wednesday, it can go to the great Metropolis Council subsequent for a final vote.…
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Squatters appear to have began out blaze at abandoned Hilo resort
HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) – A giant blaze that broke out Friday on the shuttered Uncle Billy’s Hilo Bay Resort seems to have been began by squatters, authorities mentioned. Hawaii Island legislation enforcement have opened an arson investigation within the wake of the early-morning hearth. Officers claimed the hearth probably broke out since a person had been tampering with {an electrical} junction field. Hearth crews responded to the lodge about 1:40 a.m. Hawaii County Hearth Principal Kazuo Todd claimed the 4-tale deserted creating was residence to a amount of squatters. No accidents ended up documented, and the hurt from the blaze was approximated at $2 million. The previous lodge and lots of…