Regulate, Don't Ban Vacation Rentals on Maui!

Maui Residents Petition Signatures

#	Name	What City or Town Do You Live In?	Comments
701	Vogt, Claudia	Vienna
702	Jose Carlos Soto	Cartagena
703	chris murray	portsmouth ,uk
704	Stefan Österman	Stockholm
705	Fredrik Ronnback	Lulea, Sweden
706	Anonymous	Aichi-ken, Japan	My husband and I have visited Maui in summer for 9 years in a row with our windsurfing friends. My husband and I have visited Maui in summer for 9 years in a row with our windsurfing friends. Since we are a big group and want to enjoy the local atmosphere, vacation rentals have been the best place to stay at for us. Please don' t make it too difficult for us to enjoy the nice and cozy neighborhood while we are on Maui.
707	Anonymous	Stockholm Sweden	I thought the US was supposed to be the land of freedom, entrepreneurship and minimal red tape. Please show me that I'm not totally wrong.
708	Tomas Brattberg	Stockholm, Sweden
709	jordi riera	barcelona
710	Anonymous	Kihei
711	Peter Wilson	Kula	We built our large home on 2 acres in Kula as we have a large family and we wanted some extra income from vacation renters to help us better cope with the high cost of living on Maui as we are retired and have limited income.
712	Andreas Fransson	Göteborg, Sweden
713	April Nims	Paia	Maui County created and courted TVRs to lure FITs( free independent traveler) for the betterment of the community as a whole, and for Maui's future econmic health and well being. The Kapakai approach in threatening and discriminating against the people who provided the much needed and desired alternitive accomidations for these visitors is shameful and a terrible legacy for this administration to turn around and bite, after all the many promises made not to, the many hands that feed many people in our small towns and communities. Countless people on Maui made commitments and planned their futures based upon verbal and written commitments made by the county that they were working toward creating a new draft ordinance to provide a reasonable permit process. The County needs to honor their own words, and until a workable, resonable process is in place they should allow tax paying, non impact, TVRs to continue in providing the eco, and free independent visitor the wonderful experience they want of staying on Maui, not in a hotel room.
714	Anonymous	Maui
715	Sunny Jordan	Makawao	Please consider small ag properties that are unable to grow ag because of topography & sub-standard soil. Also consider those that do not have neighbors and whose owners live on the property. Mahalo
716	Bob Flint	Makawao	Have you considered the visitor who will not come to Maui if they are forced to stay in a Hotel? Does Maui County want to be viewed by the world as backwards? Make reasonable guidelines and move forward.
717	Mr/Mrs David Alpert	we are owners of a home in: Wailea Kialoa	we know the property belonging to Sunny & Bob. It has very little flat area; surrounding is rocky, high walled and leaves the flats in a bowl-like location. There is onsite parking for their guests and no immediate neighbors. Please, reconsider their petition for a B&B.
718	sharlee dieguez	Waikapu	Please regulate and support these small businesses.
719	rich tully	KULA
720	rick briamonte	Honolulu
721	Myrna Stone	Kihei	I completely agree. Regulate don't annialate Don't kill the goose.
722	janet Davis	kula
723	karen jennings	haiku	there are several vacation rentals on my street. they are clean and pretty, the people who stay there are friendly, quiet and inconspicuous, no extra cars are on the street, and the visitors are grateful to have a "real maui" experience with local residents. i think all of them patronize hotel restaurants and gift shops, etc, and most of them spend a few days at a hotel as their "splurge". one of them would come here if their only option was a hotel. not only the expense, but they want o have a more intimate and country experience. people with vacation rentals are able to work at home, provide jobs in their neighborhood, and stay on their land in the face of rising taxes, gas, or changes in lifestyle (retirement, elderly who would like to remain at home, mom's with young kids, etc. vacation rentals are welcomed all over the united staqtes. what's wrong with maui that we have criminalized the very hospitality that hawaii is famous for? this situation must be solved in favor of our neighbors and friends who are perpetuating the spirit of aloha in a very immediate way! aloha pumehana, karen jennings, haiku
724	Sally Baldwin	Makawao
725	Tony Pieri	Granite City
726	Judith Bruder	Haiku
727	Anonymous	Kula, HI	I don't want to see Maui vacation Rentals closed and B&B's on Maui shut down. There is a vital need here for this type of accommodation. We will lose many of our destination tourists by doing this and we will be shooting ourselves in the foot in the tourism industry.
728	Cindy Tervola	Kahana
729	Anonymous	Kihei	This sounds like big business (hotels) Pulling strings in Maui County.
730	Thomas Mulhern	Lahaina	It is a disgrace that this mayor and administrations only solution is to hurrt the very people they represent...I have lived upcountry and send guests to The star outlook who has attempted to become legal for years as have so many others....The government is the problem...the mayor I now regret voting for is the problem...You all are a disgrace for your lack of solution orientation and lack of vision...feels like maybe big business has gotten a hold of you all.....Thomas Mulhern
731	Victoria Cheromcka	Wailuku	A reasonable and well regulated program is needed. Visitors deserve this choice!
732	Vaughn Paul Manley	Haiku	Vacation rentals need to be allowed to continue to operate. Their the heart of tourism on Maui!!!
733	Jody Baldwin	Haiku
734	Jonathan Mann	Makawao	I agree, regulate, don't ban B&B's and vacation rentals.
735	Betty Mann	Makawao	Get some regulations in place this year. Look at The Big Island and Kauai for examples or just copy theirs!
736	Anonymous	Haiku	Vacation rentals offer visitors an unique opportunity and choice to experience our island lifestyle up close and personal. Reasonable regulations are fine and complaints should be addressed promptly. There are only a handful of problem visitors and they should be warned and reminded of the special accomodations they are staying at. The tax revenue issue is huge and the country should wake up and see the light about that matter. Our county is going to lose in a big way and will see that in numbers in the next fiscal quarter.
737	Brian Reed	Makawao
738	Connie Hunt	Makawao, HI
739	Anonymous	Lake Oswego
740	Anonymous	Haiku
741	Steve Williams	Bel Air
742	wendy hudson	makawao
743	Anonymous	Ulupalakua	We Demand; Equal protection under the law...It is simply not right to single out one group.. What about the Rest of the People who are renting illegaly. Why has nothing ever been done till now. Who is contributing to whose campaign fund ? Alan Arakawa was right .
744	Anonymous	Paia
745	Anonymous	kula
746	tracey sevenich	haiku	What an issue. But in all fairness / regulate & make it easier for permits. Perhaps no permit for properties where the legal owner is not in residence.
747	Anonymous	Kihei	I find the county's approach to shuting down Vacation rentals on Maui to be quite shocking. I hope they come to their senses!
748	Anonymous	Maui
749	Keith & Charlene Echeverri	Kihei	We do not operate a short term rental but seek them out when traveling. Our experiences have always been positive. Perhaps a cap on the number operating in any particular residential area would make sense.
750	ranjana	makawao	this is sheer insanity....to deny that maui is the #1 vacation destination in the world! what about all of the jobs and people island wide who benefit from vacation rentals. have they thought about unemployment? be realistic.