Aloha kakou! To everyone this concerns! The reason why Hawai'i is so special is because of it's naturally beautiful people and environment. If we continue to remove and destroy these integral parts there will be no Hawai'i! It is time to make things pono and fix instead of making more! We need tourism infrastructure to benefit our ecosystems instead of poisoning and washing away like sand! If there are no beaches where will the tourists play? Or more importantly, where will our Keiki play! Coastlines, sacred pu'u and many other culturally significant aina are in great danger because of improper protection of our natural resources! If we are going to stand up and protect something it should the place that we call home!
please expand moratorium to all of maui; visitors and part time residents COST maui more money than they bring in ! only developers and out of state hotel corporations profit. construction jobs are temporary; hotel jobs pay $ 11-17/hour.... not a LIVING WAGE ! focus on small farm jobs to build quality for locals.... visitors stress our roads, sewer, water, hospital and health, electric grid systems; VISITORS COST US MONEY, net, net.
Aloha Infrastructure and Transportation Committee,
I support this moratorium, and I respectfully request the committee does the same and makes it cover all of Maui County.
There are ways to make tourism simultaneously sustainable and profitable, and in order to have time to discuss and parse out those ways, we must pause the development of new tourist accommodations to work with what we already have.
I fully support IT-54 and ask that the proposed bill be modified to include all of Maui County, and not just South and West Maui.
We have a current infrastructure that is unable to support residents let alone tourism, yet new hotels etc are being planned with no answers to the issues already in existence. This is an obvious and avoidable mistake.
Please do not bend to the pressure to build more now and deal with the issues later. That is the "Good Ole Boy" system and we know already know it does not work without harming our Lands and our Peoples.
This is the opportunity our Island needs to achieve balance in our tourism industry with our Community. Please delay new tourism related building permits etc all over our island until we have had time to review our actions and decide as a COMMUNITY what is best for us ALL, not just a few.
We owe ourselves and our Aina this.
Mahalo for your time and consideration.
Kimberlyn Scott, Maui Advocate for Victims of Crime and Families of The Missing, as well as our Aina.
808-205-7758
Desdmoana@msn.com
Please support the moratorium on building further building permits fir visitor accommodations & also please modify this bill to include all of Maui county - we need more affordable housing for locals - there are already plenty of tourist accommodations
Thank you
Please support the proposed moratorium. The environment, kama’aina and infrastructure are negatively impacted from all the development. We need to focus on fixing existing roads, sustainability and curbing the effects of climate change. TVRs have driven out long term rentals for locals and our quality of life has declined due to all the development.
I’m Native Hawaiian & I support the Moratorium On Building Permits For Visitor Accommodations. Enough is enough no more. Must build homes for Hawaiians & local people. There’s over 300+ visitor accommodations here on Maui. There’s over 30,000 rental cars on the road again. Speeding is a big issue again. Due to the amount of cars on the road. Hana is overrun by tourist as a matter fact the entire island is! Tourism must be capped.
I support a MORATORIUM ON BUILDING PERMITS FOR VISITOR ACCOMMODATIONS (IT-54). Maui Island Plan
calls for a max of 3:1 resident to visitor ratio...we have not enforced that ratio and suffered costs in quality of life and for infrastructure...a Moratorium is a necessary step at this time...
Over tourism is the prostitution and destruction of our ʻĀina. We must implement regenerative tourism practices, limit the tourists access to local areas, volunteer cultural work should be a requirement, and increase taxes on tourists and tourist based organizations. Tourism historical and culturally is the industry that is the least sustainable and economically the most toxic.
I support the moratorium to stop development for hotels and tourism. We must protect Maui and doing so starts NOW. We’ve lost opportunities to slow the development of the aina and there’s no going back. We must do better. Stop accommodating to tourism and start taking care of residents and the island
Maui county is overwhelmed and no ample infrastructure to support it currently. How can you propose growth ? Use what we have! Do not keep building. Vote for a
Moratorium county wide. Let those who have been here, doing their best for Maui county reap their hard sought after benefits! Do NOT water it down. Let people go to Oahu or other neighbor islands. Supply BELOW demand keeps us special!! Stop the insanity-Don’t mess it up!!!
I support a moratorium on Building permits for visitor accommodations for ALL of Maui.
I am 70 years old and remember growing up in Honolulu; I was always excited and happy to have mainland visitors - I was so proud to show off my beautiful island. But tourism has become the guest that overstays their welcome. Tourism brings in a lot of money but politicians are oblivious to the COST of tourism to our people - high rentals, high housing costs, poor public education, low paying jobs, brain drain out of state. Most homes and condos on Maui are sold to non-residents. Please stop selling the island to investors and invest in the needs of our own people.
In support of IT-54
Aloha kakou! To everyone this concerns! The reason why Hawai'i is so special is because of it's naturally beautiful people and environment. If we continue to remove and destroy these integral parts there will be no Hawai'i! It is time to make things pono and fix instead of making more! We need tourism infrastructure to benefit our ecosystems instead of poisoning and washing away like sand! If there are no beaches where will the tourists play? Or more importantly, where will our Keiki play! Coastlines, sacred pu'u and many other culturally significant aina are in great danger because of improper protection of our natural resources! If we are going to stand up and protect something it should the place that we call home!
Ua Mau Ke'ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono!
Mahalo
Aloha
please expand moratorium to all of maui; visitors and part time residents COST maui more money than they bring in ! only developers and out of state hotel corporations profit. construction jobs are temporary; hotel jobs pay $ 11-17/hour.... not a LIVING WAGE ! focus on small farm jobs to build quality for locals.... visitors stress our roads, sewer, water, hospital and health, electric grid systems; VISITORS COST US MONEY, net, net.
Aloha Infrastructure and Transportation Committee,
I support this moratorium, and I respectfully request the committee does the same and makes it cover all of Maui County.
There are ways to make tourism simultaneously sustainable and profitable, and in order to have time to discuss and parse out those ways, we must pause the development of new tourist accommodations to work with what we already have.
Mahalo nui, and mālama pono,
Amy Fonarow
The moratorium should be island wide.
Aloha Council Members-
I fully support IT-54 and ask that the proposed bill be modified to include all of Maui County, and not just South and West Maui.
We have a current infrastructure that is unable to support residents let alone tourism, yet new hotels etc are being planned with no answers to the issues already in existence. This is an obvious and avoidable mistake.
Please do not bend to the pressure to build more now and deal with the issues later. That is the "Good Ole Boy" system and we know already know it does not work without harming our Lands and our Peoples.
This is the opportunity our Island needs to achieve balance in our tourism industry with our Community. Please delay new tourism related building permits etc all over our island until we have had time to review our actions and decide as a COMMUNITY what is best for us ALL, not just a few.
We owe ourselves and our Aina this.
Mahalo for your time and consideration.
Kimberlyn Scott, Maui Advocate for Victims of Crime and Families of The Missing, as well as our Aina.
808-205-7758
Desdmoana@msn.com
How is this helping the Maui community?
Please support the moratorium on building further building permits fir visitor accommodations & also please modify this bill to include all of Maui county - we need more affordable housing for locals - there are already plenty of tourist accommodations
Thank you
I support the moratorium.
Support Moratorium for all of Maui County.
Please support the proposed moratorium. The environment, kama’aina and infrastructure are negatively impacted from all the development. We need to focus on fixing existing roads, sustainability and curbing the effects of climate change. TVRs have driven out long term rentals for locals and our quality of life has declined due to all the development.
I’m Native Hawaiian & I support the Moratorium On Building Permits For Visitor Accommodations. Enough is enough no more. Must build homes for Hawaiians & local people. There’s over 300+ visitor accommodations here on Maui. There’s over 30,000 rental cars on the road again. Speeding is a big issue again. Due to the amount of cars on the road. Hana is overrun by tourist as a matter fact the entire island is! Tourism must be capped.
I support the moratorium
We need to be focusing more on our residents and not on the tourists! I support the Moritorium!
I support a MORATORIUM ON BUILDING PERMITS FOR VISITOR ACCOMMODATIONS (IT-54). Maui Island Plan
calls for a max of 3:1 resident to visitor ratio...we have not enforced that ratio and suffered costs in quality of life and for infrastructure...a Moratorium is a necessary step at this time...
We are over tourism we don’t need more hotels we need more AFFORDABLE HOUSING PERIOD....I SUPPORT THE MORATORIUM my name is Consuelo Apolo-Gonsalves
Over tourism is the prostitution and destruction of our ʻĀina. We must implement regenerative tourism practices, limit the tourists access to local areas, volunteer cultural work should be a requirement, and increase taxes on tourists and tourist based organizations. Tourism historical and culturally is the industry that is the least sustainable and economically the most toxic.
I support the moratorium to stop development for hotels and tourism. We must protect Maui and doing so starts NOW. We’ve lost opportunities to slow the development of the aina and there’s no going back. We must do better. Stop accommodating to tourism and start taking care of residents and the island
Maui county is overwhelmed and no ample infrastructure to support it currently. How can you propose growth ? Use what we have! Do not keep building. Vote for a
Moratorium county wide. Let those who have been here, doing their best for Maui county reap their hard sought after benefits! Do NOT water it down. Let people go to Oahu or other neighbor islands. Supply BELOW demand keeps us special!! Stop the insanity-Don’t mess it up!!!
I support a moratorium on Building permits for visitor accommodations for ALL of Maui.
I am 70 years old and remember growing up in Honolulu; I was always excited and happy to have mainland visitors - I was so proud to show off my beautiful island. But tourism has become the guest that overstays their welcome. Tourism brings in a lot of money but politicians are oblivious to the COST of tourism to our people - high rentals, high housing costs, poor public education, low paying jobs, brain drain out of state. Most homes and condos on Maui are sold to non-residents. Please stop selling the island to investors and invest in the needs of our own people.