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Hawaii governmental regulations make creative avoidance necessary for anyone who wants to earn a living on their property.
Case in point: telecommuting from your home requires a Home Occupation permit in R zoning, or a Special Use permit in A zoning. Home Occupation is easier, but either permit involves filing papers and paying fees and giving neighbors the opportunity weigh in so the Planning Commission can mull. It doesn't matter if you're 1099 or W2, making money in the privacy of your own home requires a permit, even if your customers never visit you there and you don't accept deliveries for your business.
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09-18-2020, 08:43 PM
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Planning hired 9 people just to do VRBO stuff. They are going to be snooping behind every bush to try to justify their jobs when it gets to be budget cutting time
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Only if they're non-union. HGEA employees cannot be terminated.
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(09-18-2020, 07:43 PM)kalakoa Wrote: Hawaii governmental regulations make creative avoidance necessary for anyone who wants to earn a living on their property.
Case in point: telecommuting from your home requires a Home Occupation permit in R zoning, or a Special Use permit in A zoning. Home Occupation is easier, but either permit involves filing papers and paying fees and giving neighbors the opportunity weigh in so the Planning Commission can mull. It doesn't matter if you're 1099 or W2, making money in the privacy of your own home requires a permit, even if your customers never visit you there and you don't accept deliveries for your business.
I’ve seen this mentioned several times before. What about all the telecommuting because of covid19?
Is that illegal?
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(09-18-2020, 08:43 PM)Seeb-2 Wrote: Planning hired 9 people just to do VRBO stuff. They are going to be snooping behind every bush to try to justify their jobs when it gets to be budget cutting time
So they hire 9 people to root out the evil tax paying vacation rentals instead of allowing the vacation rentals to flourish and provide tax revenue? Idiots.
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HCC 25-5: Zoning
Home occupation means any activity intended to provide income that is carried on within a dwelling, within an accessory structure to a dwelling, or on a portion of a building site used principally for dwelling purposes.
Note especially the "any" and "dwelling", selling crack out of a tent would still require permits.
Along similar lines: a yard full of cars being stripped for parts doesn't qualify for "home occupation" permits because 25-4-13(e)(2) prohibits "repair, fabrication, or painting of automobiles". Good thing we have rules and laws. For everyone.
Vacation rentals are much simpler: these actively interfere with (read: "steal revenue from") the resorts that are entitled to those tourist dollars. Besides, micromanaging thousands of individual micro-businesses is too much work for the County and State, it's far easier to have a few high-rise hotels with single points of contact. The fact that there are no hotels in Puna is irrelevant; tourists can just commute if they want to see that stuff. Provided they're not under quarantine, that is.
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I would consider staying in a VRBO during a pandemic.
A hotel? Not so much.
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Yet, somehow, hotels can remain open because they are "essential" while vacation rentals must be shut down as "non-essential".
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Hotels are "essential" because they are owned by the "right" people or corporations.
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It's too bad the vacation rentals didn't form an "association" large enough to provide meaningful "campaign contributions".
