#Bill 9
Maui Council hears another 70 testifiers on vacation rental phase-out bill; still more to come
June 19, 2025 · 9:27 PM UTC
Public debate intensified Wednesday during several hours of sometimes heated testimony over a proposed phase-out of vacation rentals before the Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee.
Housing vs. tourism: Maui Council weighs vacation rental phase-out amid tears and warnings
June 10, 2025 · 4:04 PM UTC
Overflow crowds turned out Monday to support or attack the hotly debated vacation rental phase-out bill, but the action started early, on the sidewalk outside the Kalana O Maui Building in Wailuku. Wearing red Lahaina Strong and yellow ILWU shirts, supporters of Bill 9 formed a circle and prayed. Their signs read “Maui People First,” […]
A `promise to restore balance’: Mayor Bissen makes his case for vacation rental phase-out
June 10, 2025 · 4:00 PM UTC
Citing Maui’s severe post-wildfire housing crisis, the Bissen administration presented its formal case to a County Council committee to phase out approximately 6,000 short-term vacation rentals mostly in West and South Maui. “We simply can’t build fast enough to meet the scale of demand we’re facing,” Mayor Richard Bissen told members of the Housing and […]
Maui Council gears up for pivotal vacation rental phase-out bill hearing; Kama asks for ‘aloha’
June 9, 2025 · 4:14 AM UTC
The Maui County Council anticipates a large turnout of public testimony on the highly controversial vacation rental phase-out bill. Already, the Council has received many written testimonies, then posted on mauicounty.legistar.com as of late Sunday. Bill 9 will be heard beginning at 10 a.m. Monday in the eighth-floor Council Chambers before the Housing and Land […]
Key amendments proposed for vacation rental phase-out bill ahead of Council committee hearing
June 5, 2025 · 3:16 AM UTC
The contentious debate over the future of thousands of short-term vacation rentals in Maui County is heading to a much-anticipated public hearing Monday, June 9, before the Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee. The committee posted an agenda for a meeting beginning at 10 a.m. Monday in the Council Chambers on the eighth […]
Realtors Association of Maui opposes Bill 9, urges a ‘balanced approach’ to housing crisis
May 10, 2025 · 6:17 AM UTC
The Realtors Association of Maui (RAM) formally announced its opposition on Friday to Mayor Richard Bissen’s proposed Bill 9, which seeks to eliminate approximately 7,000 short-term rentals (STRs) in apartment-zoned areas by 2026. Mayor Richard Bissen responded to a request for comment from Maui Now saying, Bill 9 is “one part of a collective strategy” to address Maui’s severe housing crisis.
Mayor Bissen responds to UHERO analysis of vacation rental phase-out economic impacts
April 1, 2025 · 8:31 PM UTC
Mayor Richard Bissen and his Communications Office have provided point-by-point responses to Monday’s release of the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization’s analysis of the mayor’s proposed phase-out of thousands of vacation rentals in apartment-zoned districts. The phase-out proposal has gone through Maui County planning commissions. Now, it’s pending before the Maui County Council, which […]
