county council: Kauai's Multi-Use Path - The Next Step - 10/05/08 04:45 AM
Yesterday the candidates running for our county council walked Phase 3 of our fabulous multi-use path. I can hardly wait til December 1st when we once again can walk our dog on Phase 2 of the path that runs from downtown Kapaa to the northern end of Kealia Beach. Read today's article regarding the path that appears in today's Garden Island Newspaper.The next phase of the path will cross over the highway and that's a little more complicated and controversial than the components of the path that have been built so far. When completed, this will be something like 17 miles … (0 comments)

county council: Kauai County Issues Instructions for registering your Transient Vacation Rental (TVR) - 04/04/08 06:06 PM
Mayor and Planning issue TVR instructions.

OK, hot of the presses or rather the press releases, from the County of Kauai is a news release about transient vacation rentals (TVR). The press release states that any offense of this new ordinance will be fined no less than 500 dollars and no more than 10,000 dollars. Gee, a couple of 10k fines could be a little dent in your yearly cash flow. Anyway, read the interactive press release from the County of Kauai, and if you have a vacation rental within the VDA (visitor destination area) take care of registering the … (0 comments)

county council: County Council to Review latest amendment on Transient Vacation Rentals Bill 2204 - 01/23/08 11:33 AM
For almost as long as I've been practicing real estate on Kauai, going on my fourth year, there has been an ongoing conversation between the County Council (Kauai's governing body) and the community regarding the monitoring and enforcing of Kauai's Visitor Destination Area. That means, the areas the the county designated over twenty-five years ago for vacation rentals and bed and breakfasts and such.
It seems that as prices for Kauai real estate rose dramatically in 2002 through 2005, some people felt that vacation rentals were primarily responsible for our rising market prices, and therefore something needed to be done about it. … (2 comments)

county council: Curtailing Ag development on Kauai - The New Reality - 12/02/07 12:39 PM
The county of Kauai inches forward or is it backward) in its efforts to curtail development of agricultural property. After a couple of decades of a liberal approach to the creating of CPRs (Condominium Property Regimes) the county is finally taking a position in reaction to those in the community who wish to see development squelched. Four months after Mayor Bryan Baptiste proposed a bill to temporarily suspend new agricultural subdivisions on Kaua‘i, the county Planning Commission approved an amended version. Commenting in “the garden island newspaper Nathan Eagle reported about the current status today. Why are we doing this now?” … (0 comments)

county council: Kauai Council to Finalize Shoreline Setback this Week - 11/19/07 01:50 AM
Shoreline Setback Bill heading to Kauai Council.

As global warming becomes more and more of a reality facing each of us in our lives and our communities, here in Kauai as with all of the islands, the notion of sea level rising, which it is, will continue to have an effect on our shorelines and on each counties rules and regulations about such.

The Kauai county council completed hearing from state experts last week and with drafgt legislation heading to the floor Tuesday, Nov. 20, council members are expecting approve a final version of the bill by day's … (3 comments)