Read the Responses for candidates from MAUI COUNCILMEMBER (MAKAWAO-HAIKU-PAIA)
Stevie Kathryn Chung
Key quotes from Stevie Kathryn Chung’s questionnaire:
Affordability and housing
“Affordability means not having 30% of your wage going to housing on average.”
“We need to either put safeguards that automatically increase the minimum wage in fair proportion to inflation, or do rent caps based on space size.”
“We have children living in the streets, now is not a time to play around about housing.”
Housing supply and rent
“Building more apartments isnt solving anything because the const of rent is so high that people have to work 2 jobs to live alone, get priced out of maui, or be homeless.”
“If we dont either raise wages or cap rent, people will continue to leave this island, and we will lose so many good people as the island becomes a more commercialised persona of what it once was.”
Community stewardship
“The island needs to come back to the people who want to protect the island, restore the natural watershed, reforestation, and protect those less fortunate.”
“The community deserves to be protected, not commodified.”
Infrastructure funding
“For emergency fast acting solutions we should refer to the idea of the county should tax tourism and the hyper weathy and use those funds to provide lodging to help families keep their dignity.”
Permitting and county staffing
“Actually providing permitting resources would be a good placeto start.”
“Hardly any permits make it through because the county is desperately understaffed.”
“We have 600 vacant positions at the county, and instead of trying to fill those positions, they give themselves raises.”
201H, rebuilding, and housing solutions
“If given the right people to see projects through, this program could have been used to expedite the rebuilding of neighborhoods lost, maybe let people build two stories instead of 1 and such.”
“We could've interpreted this law in order to let landowners be permitted to use alternative affordable buildings materials like cob and let the community be a part of the solutions, but instead we got apartments on apartments.”
“Instead of trying to find a loophole to make capital at every turn, why not just do the right things for the simple sake of doing the right thing?”
Land use and development
“We need to 180 who we've been streamlining.”
“Instead of apartment complexes get passed one after the other, we need to restore neighborhoods and worry more about assurance rather than insurance.”
“We need to find the humanity to look at housing solutions based on ethics and mortality over lucrative opportunity.”
Fast track affordable housing
“It would almost depend on the scenario what i would want the scenario outcome to be.”
“It would be nice to allow individuals who qualify to move forward with their projects without needing mass approval when candidates could have incentive to make land hard to keep so it can be bought by major investors to then get streamined instead to build something that qualifies but involved exploitation to get there.”
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Nohelani Uu-Hodgins
Here are key quotes from Nohelani Uu-Hodgins’s questionnaire:
Livability and affordability
“A livable and affordable Maui County is one where the middle working-class can afford to buy a home and comfortably raise their family.”
“The policies that I have supported and created focus on affordable rentals and for-sale workforce housing.”
“Currently, I am supporting County initiated changes in zoning for two housing projects, one in which will prioritize essential workers to purchase a home.”
Housing supply and entitlement delays
“Affordable and workforce subdivisions for housing take nearly 10 years to entitle before vertical construction can begin.”
“Housing subdivisions require a change in zoning, which usually require an application with the county.”
“It's redundant, time consuming, and expensive.”
“On the other hand, large agricultural subdivisions can be done ministerially and do not require the years-long public process.”
Streamlining
“As described in the answer above streamlining the process to entitle homes is extremely important for the affordability of homes.”
“Education is important; however the Cultural and Historical resources are folded into each process from 1-5.”
Infrastructure funding
“This is why I supported the surplus on the GET tax; the revenue is supposed to support infrastructure for homes.”
201H and housing approvals
“The most impactful change in the 201H process is that allows for an expedited rezoning and adds a timeline to when projects need to be approved.”
Owner occupancy and wealth building
“Yes, as it helps our local middle-class attain housing with provides for generational security and wealth.”
“There could be some tweaks to make it better, as I see fit, but it works for now.”
Permitting reform
“Within one year of this plan’s adoption, adopt new administrative rules that streamline and clarify the permitting process”
“Consider using outside consultants (third-party review)”
“Implement a one-stop permitting process”
“Adopt a set of standards so permitting is administrative and as ministerial as possible”
Zoning and fast track housing
“Targeted Housing Types”
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