I support a moratorium on new transient accommodations on Maui. I am an ER doctor and can testify that the LACK of housing has contributed to the difficulty in getting and keeping healthcare workers in our community. In the last few years, we have lost countless staff from doctors, nurses, techs, radiology staff, case workers, to cleaning staff because they LOST their housing to new owners (who own multiple dwellings) who decided it was more profitable to short term rent their houses. These are neighborhoods and apartments where families lived upcountry, Wailuku, Paia, Kihei and Lahaina. Now these folks live in Vegas, Oregon, Washington State and we have LOST their contributions to our community. Everyday I see extraordinary amounts of tourists and owners who claim to "pay their taxes" and "supply jobs" when in reality, those "jobs" will be utilized REGARDLESS of short term rental or not. I have landscapers, I use cleaners, I do NOT short term rent multiple properties at the expense of my community. I feel we have become of society of haves and have nots. Many of these comments I am reading are WEALTHY OWNERS with multiple properties or REAL ESTATE AGENTS whose vested interest is NOT FOR THE COMMUNITY BUT FOR THEIR OWN WALLETS. Please keep tourism in tourist areas such as hotels. KEEP OUR COMMUNITY for those who CONTRIBUTE TO OUR COMMUNITY in more ways than "employing workers" and "paying their taxes".
I am emailing to support a moratorium on transient accommodations. If the corona virus pandemic taught Maui anything, it should be the importance of a diversified economy. When so many jobs and so much of our economic stability depends on tourism, when something interferes with tourism, we are in trouble. Economically, increasing tourism is short sighted. It puts short term gains above longterm sustainability. We need more housing for residents, more agriculture, more options for residents to live and work, not more options for tourists to stay and then go.
The land and infrastructure cannot support any more development. Traffic, full parking lots, trash, no spot on the beach, water shortages, dying reefs... Meanwhile no one left that can afford to live and work here. Overcrowding diminishes the reason why Maui is such a desirable place to visit. It should be expensive and hard to find accommodations! Stop building, protect the land and residents!
Please stop building more vacation rentals and please stop granting more permits. Locals are getting squeezed out of older developed neighborhoods to make room for tourists!
Please, please, please stop, stop building more visitor accommodations. Maui's paradise has been spoiled by the greed, destruction and shortsightedness of our County officials. I cannot fathom the on-going over development that seems to continue and continue and appears to have no end in sight. Lets preserve what is left of our aina by controlling future planning of visitor accommodations. I feel powerless in preserving Maui's natural beauty as I knew it and are indebted to what our ancestors left us. Is every inch of land going to be concrete now ?
Smart growth.
Government has it wrong.
If you over regulate and make property owners illegal in renting long term then unexpected consequences will occur!
We should make homelessness illegal and not allow people to visit without accommodations.
Thank you for allowing our community to have a voice here. We need to learn from our experiences through Covid and create an alternative economy without all our resources and reliance upon tourism.
Please stop building more visitor accommodations.
Please reduce the existing number of visitor accommodations.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE start to think of the culture and kanaka maoli - priced out of their homeland - it took a LONG time to get to where we are today - but we have to start somewhere to try to save what is left… mahalo
If people would like to come to Maui, stay at a resort or other establishment where the infrastructure has been established and dedicated to your visit. Investment properties with the sole purpose of renting out as a short term rental take away from the housing available and raises the cost of property and/or the rent for the people that serve you while you are visiting.
Please help us protect Maui's quality of life! Tourism numbers already far surpasses the recommended ratio of 1 tourist to every 3 residents (established in the Maui Island Plan). A moratorium will help us get a handle on this ratio and bring it in to balance. I'm in full support, so we can plan for smarter growth for future generations. Mahalo nui.
I support a moratorium on new transient accommodations on Maui. I am an ER doctor and can testify that the LACK of housing has contributed to the difficulty in getting and keeping healthcare workers in our community. In the last few years, we have lost countless staff from doctors, nurses, techs, radiology staff, case workers, to cleaning staff because they LOST their housing to new owners (who own multiple dwellings) who decided it was more profitable to short term rent their houses. These are neighborhoods and apartments where families lived upcountry, Wailuku, Paia, Kihei and Lahaina. Now these folks live in Vegas, Oregon, Washington State and we have LOST their contributions to our community. Everyday I see extraordinary amounts of tourists and owners who claim to "pay their taxes" and "supply jobs" when in reality, those "jobs" will be utilized REGARDLESS of short term rental or not. I have landscapers, I use cleaners, I do NOT short term rent multiple properties at the expense of my community. I feel we have become of society of haves and have nots. Many of these comments I am reading are WEALTHY OWNERS with multiple properties or REAL ESTATE AGENTS whose vested interest is NOT FOR THE COMMUNITY BUT FOR THEIR OWN WALLETS. Please keep tourism in tourist areas such as hotels. KEEP OUR COMMUNITY for those who CONTRIBUTE TO OUR COMMUNITY in more ways than "employing workers" and "paying their taxes".
I am emailing to support a moratorium on transient accommodations. If the corona virus pandemic taught Maui anything, it should be the importance of a diversified economy. When so many jobs and so much of our economic stability depends on tourism, when something interferes with tourism, we are in trouble. Economically, increasing tourism is short sighted. It puts short term gains above longterm sustainability. We need more housing for residents, more agriculture, more options for residents to live and work, not more options for tourists to stay and then go.
I support
The land and infrastructure cannot support any more development. Traffic, full parking lots, trash, no spot on the beach, water shortages, dying reefs... Meanwhile no one left that can afford to live and work here. Overcrowding diminishes the reason why Maui is such a desirable place to visit. It should be expensive and hard to find accommodations! Stop building, protect the land and residents!
Please stop building more vacation rentals and please stop granting more permits. Locals are getting squeezed out of older developed neighborhoods to make room for tourists!
Please, please, please stop, stop building more visitor accommodations. Maui's paradise has been spoiled by the greed, destruction and shortsightedness of our County officials. I cannot fathom the on-going over development that seems to continue and continue and appears to have no end in sight. Lets preserve what is left of our aina by controlling future planning of visitor accommodations. I feel powerless in preserving Maui's natural beauty as I knew it and are indebted to what our ancestors left us. Is every inch of land going to be concrete now ?
Smart growth.
Government has it wrong.
If you over regulate and make property owners illegal in renting long term then unexpected consequences will occur!
We should make homelessness illegal and not allow people to visit without accommodations.
Thank you for allowing our community to have a voice here. We need to learn from our experiences through Covid and create an alternative economy without all our resources and reliance upon tourism.
Please stop building more visitor accommodations.
Please reduce the existing number of visitor accommodations.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE start to think of the culture and kanaka maoli - priced out of their homeland - it took a LONG time to get to where we are today - but we have to start somewhere to try to save what is left… mahalo
If people would like to come to Maui, stay at a resort or other establishment where the infrastructure has been established and dedicated to your visit. Investment properties with the sole purpose of renting out as a short term rental take away from the housing available and raises the cost of property and/or the rent for the people that serve you while you are visiting.
Please help us protect Maui's quality of life! Tourism numbers already far surpasses the recommended ratio of 1 tourist to every 3 residents (established in the Maui Island Plan). A moratorium will help us get a handle on this ratio and bring it in to balance. I'm in full support, so we can plan for smarter growth for future generations. Mahalo nui.
It is very hard to find a vacation rental during Dec to April 1st. Please do not make this even harder!