HOUSE BILL NO. 1726 to REMOVE permit exemptions for AG structures

[terracore]

https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/Session20...02-22_.PDF

[kalakoa]

Per the committee report, this bill is supported by the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, and opposed by actual farmers.

It silently ignores the fact that there's a huge building permit backlog due to lack of staff or bribery indictments or whatever.

It also ignores the complete lack of enforcement on all the existing unpermitted structures.

Note the amazing similarity to "with a $750M bond, we can pave Hawaiian Acres so the police can better respond".

To quote another thread: If you can adapt, Puna will always be one of the best places to live.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

It silently ignores the ... backlog due to lack of staff or bribery indictments or whatever.

Speaking of bribery, here's how well that technique works on bills in the legislature for another issue, cesspools:

The feds allege well-connected business pressure and money were behind bribes to facilitate — then to make disappear — bills that would have expedited big wastewater projects.
https://www.khon2.com/always-investigati...l-problem/

[kalakoa]

another issue, cesspools

Exactly. Cesspools are an actual danger to the environment, but there's no money to fix that problem either.

[malahini]

another issue, cesspools

Exactly. Cesspools are an actual danger to the environment, but there's no money to fix that problem either.

That infrastructure bill should have bought us a sanitary sewer system.

[kander]

No but I bet the money can be well spent on studies on how they could.