08-18-2019, 04:43 AM
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/201...es-to-fix/
Building a house on Hawaii Island just got a lot more complicated --— and more expensive -- because the county missed a deadline to enact local exemptions to a strict new statewide energy code.
Hawaii counties had two years to implement changes to the International Energy Conservation Code, but neither the Department of Public Works nor the County Council initiated a new law to do so. Both Maui and Kauai passed bills to lessen the impact by taking their own particular climate zones into consideration.
Rhetorical: what was County doing for those two years? Passing a GET surcharge (twice), shutting down vacation rentals, scheduling "talk story" sessions about the lava "recovery"...
Building a house on Hawaii Island just got a lot more complicated --— and more expensive -- because the county missed a deadline to enact local exemptions to a strict new statewide energy code.
Hawaii counties had two years to implement changes to the International Energy Conservation Code, but neither the Department of Public Works nor the County Council initiated a new law to do so. Both Maui and Kauai passed bills to lessen the impact by taking their own particular climate zones into consideration.
Rhetorical: what was County doing for those two years? Passing a GET surcharge (twice), shutting down vacation rentals, scheduling "talk story" sessions about the lava "recovery"...