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Affordable housing project Kalama Kai in Kihei is pictured during a blessing ceremony in 2019. Critics had worried that a bill proposed by the Maui County Council to increase affordable housing requirements for fast-track projects would make it more difficult for developers to build homes. On Friday, the bill died after the Maui County Council was unable to get enough votes to override the mayorâs veto. â The Maui News / COLLEEN UECHI photo
A much-debated bill to require fast-track housing projects to offer more affordable housing died on Friday as the Maui County Council failed to garner enough votes to override Mayor Michael Victorino’s veto.
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A Maui County Council committee is proposing an $842.6 million budget that would use higher hotel taxes to generate more revenue for affordable housing. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photos
A Maui County Council committee is proposing an $842.6 million budget that would increase the current budget by about $20 million and rely on tax hikes for hotels to fund more affordable housing.
The Budget, Finance and Economic Development Committee finished reviewing Mayor Michael Victorino’s proposal last week and moved forward its own version, which includes at least $9 million more than the mayor budgeted for affordable housing, Committee Chairwoman Keani Rawlins-Fernandez said on Thursday.
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With officials often emphasizing âquality over quantityâ when it come to tourism, a sign questions âWhereâs the quality?â during a âTake Back the Beachâ rally at Wailea Beach on April 11. In response to long-brewing concerns about overtourism, the Maui County Councilâs budget committee is proposing to reduce funding to the Maui Visitors Bureau. â The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
Saying they want to see more tourism management and “not more promotion” of the island, Maui County Council members are transferring county funding from the Maui Visitors Bureau and putting some of the money toward tourism management grants.
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The Maui County Council is mulling whether to again push back the adoption deadline for the Maui Island Water Use Development Plan, a blueprint for protection, management and water use over a 20-year period.
Members of the council’s Agriculture and Public Trust Committee indicated during their meeting Tuesday that they will likely postpone the deadline until September or longer. The council voted last November to extend the deadline from Dec. 31 to June 30.
Committee Chairman Shane Sinenci said council members and the community want several updates to the plan, and funding is not available to contract out the job. Instead, Office of Council Services staff has agreed to do the work in-house.