The County Council moved the Bill 9 counterpart forward to receive a thorough vetting and recommendations on ways to change ...

The Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee surely caught some observers by surprise last week by voting to move its long-debated, “get transient rentals out of residential neighborhoods” ...

Maui County’s Lanai, Maui and Molokai Planning Commissions will now consider whether to allow owners of 4, 519 short-term ...

A new bill will phase out roughly 7,000 vacation rentals, but a proposal to exempt as many as 4,500 stalled in the county ...

KAHULUI–The Maui Vacation Rental Association (MVRA) today released the results of a statewide poll of registered Hawai’i voters to gather opinions on proposals aiming to ban short-term rentals, such ...

Maui County Council members heard another full day of testimony Wednesday for and against a proposal to convert 6, 100 vacation rentals in Maui “apartment districts ” into long-term housing, but ...

LAHAINA, MAUI — On Thursday, the Maui County Council gave first approval to an ordinance that would ban 7,000 short term vacation rentals by 2030. The ostensible purpose is to provide housing for ...

HONOLULU — Lawmakers on Maui passed legislation Thursday aimed at eliminating a large percentage of the Hawaiian island’s vacation rentals to address a housing shortage exacerbated by the wildfire ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. The devastating Aug. 8, 2023, Lahaina fire brought the ...