State Bill Would Allow Development Prior To Identifying Sites of Historic Importance
Historic Hawaii Foundation requests your help by contacting members of the State House of Representatives to ask them to vote “no” on SB 1171. Senate Bill 1171 seeks to take away the protections provided by current historic preservation laws in identifying and saving historic and cultural properties. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=1171 SB 1171 [...]
State of Hawaii Nears Completion of Corrective Action for Preservation Program
The State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) issued a final completion report February 1 on its efforts to comply with the Corrective Action under which it has been operating since 2010. The report outlines the actions that SHPD undertook to address deficiencies [...]
State Preservation Plan Complete
The Hawai‘i Historic Preservation Division announced that the statewide five-year preservation plan is complete. The development and implementation of a comprehensive statewide historic preservation plan is one of the responsibilities of each State Historic Preservation Office, as outlined in the National Historic Preservation Act. Hawaii’s new plan covers the period [...]