Solutions to the TVR issue are starting to form
POSTED: March 17, 2008
We read — with pleasure and relief — in The Maui News (March 9) announcing that a possible solution to the transient vacation rentals (TVR) issue may come at last from the Maui County Council’s meeting with the Chamber of Commerce.
That the council is listening to many options, as opposed to stiff enforcement of the current legislation, is encouraging. We look forward to a reasonable and fair bill, regulating TVRs and bed-and-breakfasts operating on agricultural and rural zoned lands, to come out of such workshops.
In the meantime, the council has been offered another opportunity to help the situation in the form of a resolution proposed by the ‘Ohana Coalition Maui. The OCM has met with elected officials for months now and found agreement with the proposal to suspend shutting down and fining people for such home-based businesses until good legislation is in place. A new bill would take into account conditions from both sides of the issue, as well as the economic impact of the wholesale closing down of such businesses.
Councilman Mike Victorino says he will bring this resolution before the council for approval to serve until the bill is enacted, We are confident that the council will find a way to work with the mayor to the benefit of the entire community, both in the short and long term.
Diana Dahl
‘Ohana Coalition Maui Steering Committee
Member Comments
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Sensible
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03-21-08 1:26 AM
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About TVRs destroying neighbor hoods. It is not the tourist guests that have barking dogs not being attended to and other animals running the beaches & neighborhoods unleashed. Do not have junk in there yards. They do not have road rage. Don’t break windows and rob neighbor’s homes or cars, Have loud parties at into late hours, Don’t leave garbage all over at the parks, and Don’t use the bypass lanes to cut in front of everyone, not a part of the Ice problem. Do not sleep in our parks with trash all over our Island, Start fights over nothing. Do not beat up people on the Island They do not shoot people. Argue with neighbors or others. Do not play Loud Music. Most don’t know anyone else or have a few friends they come to visit and want to stay near them. If they are into water sports like windsurfing where will they keep equipment? At a hotel. They support the local business and all the stores. Most want to try all our local restaurants for the short stay they are here. Traffic s
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UncleB
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03-18-08 7:10 PM
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Maybe you dont know the difference because you have never experoienced it before the time-shares which propped all these companys up through thier ticket sales and when they put that 1000 room time share on the last vestige of open beach in west Maui, trthats not a quality of life issue right. Well I for one am done making sacrifices to which I am not privy to reward. My business was here before all this and it will be here after. I may sell to tourists products, but I dont sell-out. I dont sell my beach or neighborhood that in all reality doesnt belong to me. So when you get mad at Mayor Tavares for doing the rigjht thing..dont..because its not Yours. Its all of ours.
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UncleB
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03-18-08 7:08 PM
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So when you try to bring your keiki to the beach to learn how to surf there are 6 different schools in the water, thats not ruining quality of life. When you go the beach and all the parking is taken up b y a rafting company and thier customers cars and that is the only launch for a kayak and you have to walk and extra 50 yards with your boat, thats not impinging quality of life. So when your neighbor has a microphone and having a corporate awards or lecture but it's not really your neighbor it's a TVR and it's owner lives in Iowa and you end up calling the police who are to busy dealing with a traffic accident and the guy wont shut the microphone off because he says "He has paid for a week", thats not ruining the quality of life in that neighborhood.
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HaikuFarmer
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03-18-08 6:27 PM
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You have to look at reality. People will use the beaches for sports - there is nothing wrong with that. If the County had only enforced the common sense rules that were already on the books, any minor problem could have been taken care of. Now the beaches with have more drugs, more crime and more water safety problems. No-one was ruining anyone's quality of life. I'm very curious about your business, Uncle B. that doesn't directly or indirectly benefit from tourism. It will certainly be a rarity!
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HaikuFarmer
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03-18-08 6:22 PM
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Uncle B., what is your business?
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UncleB
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03-18-08 5:54 PM
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My business makes 600K a year gross. Obviously some of you dont know what running a business entails. I wish I was putting 600K in my pocket. Regardless, the general public should not lose the quality of life at the beach and parks because some entrepenuer decides its ok for them to intrude on everybody else.
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Sensible
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03-18-08 5:33 PM
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We hope the county will not do enforcement until the issue is completely heard out. The TRVs do a great service to the community and the families who are helped by them. It is not the rich you are hurting and will loss there homes. It is the local people who are hired by them. I know of many local families born and raised here who have serviced these people for many many years without complaint. They are the ones who are getting hurt. Poor people do not hire and pay good wages. The rich if they do not like it will just sell there homes to another wealthy person and move on. It is the long lived locals that will pay for this mistake. Most people doing the rentals are good hard working people providing a needed service and do not want to disturb anyone. There are a few in any business who are not good business people and do not run it right. That is why working with the county to make sure permits are insued and rules are understood and make sense to everyone is a sensible goal. Mahalo
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HaikuFarmer
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03-18-08 1:53 PM
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Uncle B., Selfish people live all around the world. that is why we have wars and poverty and all other social ills. You aren't unique in your attitude of "I'm allowed to make 600K/year and everyone else should be poor." Though you may clothe it is "Hawaiian sovereignty". It is just garden variety selfishness.
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KiheiGuy
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03-18-08 10:54 AM
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Or in UncleB's case...Too much selfish Kool-Aid. UncleB is unique among us. He somehow makes 600k a year yet it has absolutely nothing to do with tourism, not even in-directly, according to him. Therefore he wants everyone off of "his island." Must be nice!
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UncleB
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03-18-08 4:26 AM
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Not the fault of people who start operating an illegal business? huh? You get your license then begin operation...not the other way around!!!
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vision
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03-18-08 4:07 AM
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The whole point of legislation is to make sure there is NOT proliferation UncleB ... that's what people asked for back in 1997 and have been asking for ever since. It's not the TVR owners who are at fault here. They've been asking for the rules. It's our government that has been behind the 8 ball, thus RESULTING in proliferation. The legislative solution is easy. Put a cap on it. Duh. Too much of ANY GOOD THING isn't healthy, right? Too much candy, too many hotels ...
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UncleB
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03-18-08 12:34 AM
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That means going after these proliferation companys that prey on public areas. ResidentiaL areas and beaches and parks. Maui is an easy place to exploit and unfourtunatly some abuse it and ruin it for the rest of us.
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vision
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03-17-08 11:36 PM
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She has what it takes to "fix" Maui? Does that mean in embalming fluid?
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vision
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03-17-08 11:35 PM
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Bravo for the Ohana Coalition!!! and bravo for Mike Victorino!!! Someone is FINALLY willing to clean up this mess!!!
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UncleB
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03-17-08 9:44 PM
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One summer I gave ten years of SURFER magazine to the Baldwin Summer school so they could rip them up for Arts and Crafts
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DonDiego
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03-17-08 8:52 PM
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Uncle B, Charmaine said that people who write letters in Maui news are not real Maui people. Give those textbooks to any schools yet rich man?
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UncleB
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03-17-08 7:37 PM
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Charmaine is building her base. I didnt vote for her last time but she has shown me she has what it takes to fix Maui.
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UncleB
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03-17-08 7:36 PM
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Wow MNKO...I must be wrong..I actually agree with you
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MauiNoKaOi
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03-17-08 6:10 PM
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Blah. TVR's belong in hotel-zoned areas. No grandfathering or complaining about lost jobs. If you can't afford your house without renting out a room (legally or illegally), then you are irresponsible and deserve to lose your house. Period.
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KiheiGuy
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03-17-08 6:08 PM
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I find it fascinating that the County is doing anything other than "whatever they want" with regard to TVR's. I suspect a lawsuit was pending or threatened. If so, good for the TVR people for standing up against an extremely corrupt mayor and county government.
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