Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 35, Number 10, 1 October 2018 — STATE HOUSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STATE HOUSE

Wa/'0/asurveyedthe legislative candidates anel asked five multiple ehoiee questions. The lettersinthe grid correspond withthe lettered responses for eaeh multiple ehoiee question.

STATE H0U5E DISTRICT #3

FOGEL, FRED F. LIBERTARIAN AGE: 68 OCCUPATION: Retired Quality Advisor, Hawai'i State Department of Defense HOMETOWN: Volcano, Hawai'i E: trifox3@qmail.com P: (808) 265-1659 W: None

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ONISHI, RICHARD H.K. DEMOCRATIC AGE: 64 OCCUPATION Legislator HOMETOWN: Hilo, Hawai'i E: ronishi001@hawaii.rr.com P: (808) 959-5702 W: friendsforrichardonishi.com

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT #7

TARNAS, DAVID DEMOCRATIC AGE: 57 OCCUPATION: Environmental Planner HOMETOWN: Kamuela, Hawai'i E: votetarnas@qmail.com P: (808) 987-5810 W: www.votetarnas.com

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT #10

MARTEN, CHAYNE M. REPUBLICAN AGE: 65 OCCUPATION: Political Activist HOMETOWN: Lahainā, Maui E: chaynemarten@qmail.com P: (808) 868-0414

STATE HOUS DISTRICT #13

NIKHILANANDA, NICK GREEN AGE: 67 OCCUPATION: Candidate-Hawai'i State House of Representatives-District 13; Substitute Teacher at King Kekaulike High School at Hawai'i Department of Education HOMETOWN: Huelo, Maui E: nikhilananda@hawaiiantel.net P: (808) 269-2218 W: friendsofnikhilananda.com

®Public Land Trust More than ten years ago, the state set an interim amount of Puhlie Land Trust revenues owed to OHA at $15.1 million a year. This dollar amount was intended to be temporary until the Legislature could revisit the issue to determine how it should satisfy the state's constitutional obligations to Hawaiians. Do you believe the annual $15.1 million amount: A. is too low and should be increased B. is still sufficient and should be maintained C. is too high and should be decreased D. should be revisited to determine if it is still fair.

®Transient Vacation Rentals The proliferation of transient vacation rentals has coincided with the rise in popularity of several online vacation rental advertising platforms. Notably, a significant majority of advertised transient vacation rentals would appear to violate various counties' zoning and permitting laws, and significant concerns have now been raised about their alleged impacts to Hawai'i's housing inventory and housing costs, as well as their effects on the character of residential neighborhoods and rural communities. Would you support legislation that provides counties with stronger enforcement tools to better regulate the transient vacation rental industry, including provisions to hold online platforms accountable for advertising illegal transient vacation rental operations, and fines and penalties that ean meaningfully deter illegal transient vacation rental activities? A. Yes, our housing crisis requires that we prioritize enforcement approaches that ean better ensure our housing units are used for longterm residency by residents, not tourists. B. Yes, but allowing more transient vacation rentals, such as bedroom rentals in owner-occupied homes and whole-home rentals by loeal residents, should also bea priority. C. No, enforcement actions against illegal transient vacation rentals will hurt Hawai'i's economy and homeowners. D. No, property owners should be able to rent out their residential property orproperties astheydesire.

®Water Rights The state currently allows certain private entities to divert streams under "holdover" revocable permits, without environmental assessments or the public auction and appraisal requirements otherwise required for water leases. As a result, these private commercial entities have been allowed to use state water resources for profit, to the detriment of stream life, kalo farming, and other "puhlie trust purposes," and without clearly demonstrating how their use of water is consistent with the public trust in stream water. Whieh of the following legislative provisions would you support, to better ensure that any "holdover" revocable permits are consistent with the puhlie trust in water: A. Require any "holdover" revocable permit holder to clearly justify how mueh water it actually needs, and how such a need is consistent with the public trust, B. Require an independent appraisal of the eeonomie benefit a "holdover" revocable permit holder realizes from the use of public trust water, and require that the permit fee be commensurate with this benefit, C. Both of the above, D. None of the above: the state should end these holdover revocable permits and require private commercial stream diverters to obtain water leases, and comply with laws providing for environmental assessments, appraisals, and analyses to ensure consistency with the public trust, or E. None of the above; the Board of Land and Natural Resources should have the discretion to continue these "holdover" revocable permits as it sees fit.

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