10 Decision2018 - General Election
state house Ka Wai Ola surveyed the legislative candidates and asked five multiple choice questions. The letters in the grid correspond with the lettered responses for each multiple choice question.
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FOGEL,
ONISHI,
TARNAS,
MARTEN,
NIKHILANANDA,
LIBERTARIAN
DEMOCRATIC
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLICAN
GREEN
Age: 68 Occupation: Retired Quality Advisor, Hawai‘i State Department of Defense hometown: Volcano, Hawai‘i
Age: 64 Occupation: Legislator hometown: Hilo, Hawai‘i
Age: 57 Occupation: Environmental Planner hometown: Kamuela, Hawai‘i
Age: 65 Occupation: Political Activist hometown: Lahainā, Maui
E: ronishi001@hawaii.rr.com P: (808) 959-5702 W: friendsforrichardonishi.com
E: votetarnas@gmail.com P: (808) 987-5810 W: www.votetarnas.com
E: chaynemarten@gmail.com P: (808) 868-0414
Age: 67 Occupation: Candidate-Hawai‘i State House of Representatives-District 13; Substitute Teacher at King Kekaulike High School at Hawai'i Department of Education hometown: Huelo, Maui
Fred F.
Richard H.K.
E: trifox3@gmail.com P: (808) 265-1659 W: None
David
Chayne M.
Nick
E: nikhilananda@hawaiiantel.net P: (808) 269-2218 W: friendsofnikhilananda.com
1. Public Land Trust
D
D
D
D
A
2. Transient Vacation Rentals
D
A
A
A
A
3. Water Rights
C
D
A
D
D
4. Feral Cats
B
A
A
B
B
5. Charter School Funding
B
B
A
A
A
Q1
Public Land Trust
More than ten years ago, the state set an interim amount of Public Land Trust revenues owed to OHA at $15.1 million a year. This dollar amount was intended to be temporary until the Legislature could revisit the issue to determine how it should satisfy the state’s constitutional obligations to Hawaiians. Do you believe the annual $15.1 million amount: A. is too low and should be increased B. i s still sufficient and should be maintained C. is too high and should be decreased D. s hould be revisited to determine if it is still fair.
Q2
Transient Vacation Rentals
Q3
Water Rights
The proliferation of transient vacation rentals has coincided with the rise in popularity of several online vacation rental advertising platforms. Notably, a significant majority of advertised transient vacation rentals would appear to violate various counties’ zoning and permitting laws, and significant concerns have now been raised about their alleged impacts to Hawai‘i’s housing inventory and housing costs, as well as their effects on the character of residential neighborhoods and rural communities. Would you support legislation that provides counties with stronger enforcement tools to better regulate the transient vacation rental industry, including provisions to hold online platforms accountable for advertising illegal transient vacation rental operations, and fines and penalties that can meaningfully deter illegal transient vacation rental activities?
The state currently allows certain private entities to divert streams under “holdover” revocable permits, without environmental assessments or the public auction and appraisal requirements otherwise required for water leases. As a result, these private commercial entities have been allowed to use state water resources for profit, to the detriment of stream life, kalo farming, and other “public trust purposes,” and without clearly demonstrating how their use of water is consistent with the public trust in stream water. Which of the following legislative provisions would you support, to better ensure that any “holdover” revocable permits are consistent with the public trust in water:
A. Y es, our housing crisis requires that we prioritize enforcement approaches that can better ensure our housing units are used for longterm residency by residents, not tourists.
B. Require an independent appraisal of the economic benefit a “holdover” revocable permit holder realizes from the use of public trust water, and require that the permit fee be commensurate with this benefit,
A. Require any “holdover” revocable permit holder to clearly justify how much water it actually needs, and how such a need is consistent with the public trust,
B. Y es, but allowing more transient vacation rentals, such as bedroom rent- C. Both of the above, als in owner-occupied homes and whole-home rentals by local residents, D. N one of the above; the state should end these holdover revocable permits should also be a priority. and require private commercial stream diverters to obtain water leases, and C. No, enforcement actions against illegal transient vacation rentals will comply with laws providing for environmental assessments, appraisals, and hurt Hawai‘i’s economy and homeowners. analyses to ensure consistency with the public trust, or D. No, property owners should be able to rent out their residential property E. None of the above; the Board of Land and Natural Resources should have or properties as they desire. the discretion to continue these “holdover” revocable permits as it sees fit.
