 | Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawai`i, Second Edition Land use in Hawai'i remains the most regulated of all the fifty states. According to many sources, the process of going from raw land to the completion of a project may well average ten years given that ninety-five percent of raw land is initially classified by the State Land Use Commission as either conservation or agriculture. How did this happen and to what end? Will it continue? What laws and regulations control the use of land? Is the use of land in Hawai'i a right or a privilege? Callies David L. : David L. Callies is Benjamin A. Kudo professor of law at the University of Hawai'i, where he teaches land use, state and local government, and real property law. He is a graduate of DePauw University, the University of Michigan Law School (J.D.) and the University of Nottingham (LL.M.), and a past foreign fellow and present life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He is the author or coauthor of seventeen books. |
