Posts Tagged ‘STVR’

Short Term Vacation Rental Application Process

Aloha fellow Villages at Mauna Lani owners: Laura Partridge asked if I could write an article on a current and relevant real estate subject for our Villages Newsletter. I decided to write a few words of wisdom on the new Short Term Vacation Rental (STVR) registration process that is now required of all owners who are currently vacation renting their properties or are seeking approval to do so via the County of Hawaii’s new STVR approval process. I just assisted my client’s successful completion and submittal of their applications for 2 Villages homes this week to the County of Hawaii Planning Department. For those of you not vacation renting your homes, congratulations as you will avoid a somewhat tricky and time consuming process. For the sake of this article I will comment only on typical units in our Villages community which is located in “V” (resort) zoning where vacation rental is allowed and vacation rental is not precluded by our Villages rules and regulations. Here is a link to the County Site if you would lik...

Hawaii County Bill 108 Approved!

The County of Hawaii adopted Bill 108 on November 18, 2019, and is now recognized as Ordinance 2018-114. The Planning Department is now charged with administering the Ordinance and establishing new practices and procedures “necessary to implement the provisions set forth in Bill 108” as stated in their public notice requesting further public input regarding their Rule 23. Rule 23 further defines the methodology of applying for a Short Term Vacation Rental Permit as well as a Non Conforming Use Permit where the existing zoning would preclude a short term vacation rental use. Historically, STVR (short term vacation rentals) were only allowed in Resort nodes like the Mauna Lani Resort and these zoning classifications; Resort (V), General Commercial (CG), and Village Commercial (CV) zoned properties. Vacation rental was not allowed in Residential zoning including condominiums which have zonings like RM classifications. These RM zoned condominiums are now included in the allowed zoning for STVR unless their particular documents ...