Before you read your building's row. The Res. 26-129 rows below are taken from Resolution 26-129, CD1 as adopted by the Council on Sept. 29, 2026 — 32 properties, with their tax map keys and proposed districts straight from Exhibits 1 and 2. Four properties that appeared in earlier drafts are marked not included. Res. 26-110 and 26-111 passed the Council in July, but the Planning Commission has since recommended denial for most of those properties. Unit and property counts differ between sources and are not reconciled here; each is quoted under Notes on this data below. Confirm your own property with the County before acting on anything here.
The Council had asked the commission to rezone 3,402 units across 48 properties under Res. 26-110 and 26-111. The commission recommended denial for most of them. Council Chair Lee said only five of the 48 were approved and called the result “just astounding.” What got through fell into narrow categories.
The commission must return the bills to the Council by Nov. 24, 2026. Because the recommendation is negative, the Council needs six of its nine members to approve the rezonings anyway. Only five voted to send the second batch forward on Sept. 29, and at least one member has said publicly she will not vote to override a negative commission recommendation. The Council has the final say, but the arithmetic is now harder than a simple majority.
Instead of voting on properties one by one, the committee set a test. A property had to meet both conditions to be included.
And one rule that took properties out. The committee removed a property if 25 percent or more of its units were in long-term residential use in 2008 and the majority of its footprint was not in a Special Flood Hazard Area. That is what moved Maʻalaea Kai and Island Sands off the list.
The Sea Level Rise Exposure Area is measured at 3.2 feet of sea level rise from the Hawaiʻi Sea Level Rise Viewer. The committee adopted these criteria 5-4 on Aug. 27 and recommended Res. 26-129, CD1 by the same 5-4 margin on Sept. 9 — aye: Uʻu-Hodgins, Batangan, Cook, Lee, Sugimura; no: Johnson, Paltin, Rawlins-Fernandez, Sinenci. The committee report states the criteria are specific to the properties listed in CD1, and that the Council may rezone other properties for other reasons or under different criteria.
Res. 26-129 is now at Step 3. Res. 26-130 has not moved and remains in committee. Res. 26-110 and 26-111 are at Step 4 in substance — the commission has spoken and the Council has the final word.
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Aloha. If your property is on this page and you are trying to work out what it actually means — for your rental income, your resale value, or whether to hold or sell — I am happy to talk it through. No pitch, no obligation. I have been on this island about twenty years and I have been following this legislation since Bill 9 was introduced.
Send me the building name and your unit — or just call — and I will tell you where it sits today, what the Aug. 27 criteria mean for it, and what I would be watching next. If I do not know something, I will say so.
Mahalo for reading. I update this page each time something moves at the County. Keri Nicholson, REALTOR® Broker, License RB-24151, Coldwell Banker Island Properties, Kapalua. Nothing here is legal, tax, or investment advice.