Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawai'i, Second Edition

by David L. Callies

Land use in Hawai'i remains the most regulated of all the fifty states. According to many sources, the process of going from raw land to the completion of a project may well average ten years given that ninety-five percent of raw land is initially classified by the State Land Use Commission as either conservation or agriculture. How did this happen and to what end? Will it continue? What laws and regulations control the use of land? Is the use...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824834755
• ISBN13: 9780824834753
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.