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Consultant urges DHHL to pilot three 'fast-track' uses for underused trust lands
Summary
James Myoho proposed three interim tracks for underused Department of Hawaiian Home Lands parcels — emergency occupancy, transitional homesteading with tiny homes, and beneficiary stewardship agreements — and asked the commission to authorize a working group to develop pilots and templates to place people faster than traditional development.
A consultant presenting to the Hawaiian Homes Commission on Feb. 18 urged the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to adopt a parallel, faster path for putting beneficiaries on the land: short-term emergency occupancy, transitional homesteading pilots and stewardship-based beneficiary occupancy.
"There is a way to utilize some of these lands in a transitional way that allows shelter," said James Myoho, who described three tracks he said could place people on DHHL land more quickly than full development. Myoho asked the commission to "study this and authorize a working…
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