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[Johnny14]

I agree with brother Blake. Hawaii will legalize prostitution right after they legalize gambling and recreational marijuana use. To phrase that in jeopardy format, "Alex, what are events that will occur prior to hell freezing over. ".

Why stop there, how about Casino gambling too? With $millions going to Las Vegas from Hawaii residents, how about keeping all that and more from tourists in this State? You'll find that your corrupt politicians are in the pockets of Las Vegas casinos and the main reason why these hypercrites always giving the "moral" BS that its bad for Hawaii, when in fact many are giving that "fat envelope" from Vegas to keep it that way.

[Xavier21]

Should Hawaii Make Prostitution Legal? https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/05/sh...itution-legal/.

I agree with brother Blake. Hawaii will legalize prostitution right after they legalize gambling and recreational marijuana use. To phrase that in jeopardy format, "Alex, what are events that will occur prior to hell freezing over. ".

[Blake123]

Should Hawaii Make Prostitution Legal? https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/05/sh...itution-legal/.

Will happen only when hell freezes over...

[HawaiiBoy09]

Bridget Namata looking especially hot tonight.

[HapaBoy86]

Should Hawaii Make Prostitution Legal? https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/05/sh...itution-legal/.

LOL, this will never happen. City & County and State of Hawaii would knock this down very fast kine!

[PanochaMan]

Should Hawaii Make Prostitution Legal? https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/05/sh...itution-legal/.

[John Ross]

I wish the owner good luck in meeting his tax bill. No way any residential usage will be able to pay the kind of rent that CHM, Golden and Ace payed for their units.

There is a considerable difference in taxes. For example, in CC, a similar residential unit is roughly $2000 less per annum in property taxes. The same goes for the former KB properties. Can you imagine someplace like the old New Casino paying $20000 a month in rent? You have to wonder how much that Chinese restaurant pays.

[Cosmic Kid]

I wish the owner good luck in meeting his tax bill. No way any residential usage will be able to pay the kind of rent that CHM, Golden and Ace payed for their units.

Well, fact is, at least in CHM's case, that unit WAS in "residential usage", because for some if not all of the providers, it wasn't just where they worked but where they were living too.

[Puuhale]

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Brother you're pushing it past local politics. There's a very active national thread if you want to get into the left v right thing.

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[Da Game]

I'm not sure about that. I had a house that was originally a residence many years ago, and remained so until a few years ago when I sold the house. The city had changed the zoning from residential to commercial many years ago, catching many nearby owners by surprise with large tax bills. So, if the AY Wong building owner wants to turn the place into a hostel, he probably could. However, he probably needs to change zoning to residential commercial mixed use, like Century Center. If successful, the owner will get a break on the property tax as he will designate xx units as residential. He just needs to be sure that is what the end use will be. C&C sends inspectors out to inspect for compliance, as they did with CC and other mixed use buildings. They will tie you into commercial classification for 5 years, even if the renter is operating a home business out of their personal residence.

I guess the landlord is making the most of having all these showers in his commercial business building. LOL.

[FCH300]

I'm not sure about that. I had a house that was originally a residence many years ago, and remained so until a few years ago when I sold the house. The city had changed the zoning from residential to commercial many years ago, catching many nearby owners by surprise with large tax bills. So, if the AY Wong building owner wants to turn the place into a hostel, he probably could. However, he probably needs to change zoning to residential commercial mixed use, like Century Center. If successful, the owner will get a break on the property tax as he will designate xx units as residential. He just needs to be sure that is what the end use will be. C&C sends inspectors out to inspect for compliance, as they did with CC and other mixed use buildings. They will tie you into commercial classification for 5 years, even if the renter is operating a home business out of their personal residence.

I wish the owner good luck in meeting his tax bill. No way any residential usage will be able to pay the kind of rent that CHM, Golden and Ace payed for their units.

[Honolulu Yobo]

The real reason for the police raids is, that the police got to get their last licks in, before this bill is passed by the Governor.

https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/asset...-on-iges-desk/

[John Ross]

Doesn't that mean that the building owner can't lease space with the intent of that space being used for residence, be it temporary or permanent?

I'm not sure about that. I had a house that was originally a residence many years ago, and remained so until a few years ago when I sold the house. The city had changed the zoning from residential to commercial many years ago, catching many nearby owners by surprise with large tax bills. So, if the AY Wong building owner wants to turn the place into a hostel, he probably could. However, he probably needs to change zoning to residential commercial mixed use, like Century Center. If successful, the owner will get a break on the property tax as he will designate xx units as residential. He just needs to be sure that is what the end use will be. C&C sends inspectors out to inspect for compliance, as they did with CC and other mixed use buildings. They will tie you into commercial classification for 5 years, even if the renter is operating a home business out of their personal residence.

[White Lava]

Amazing. Is it zoned as business or residential? I remember the guy on the news a couple months ago stating how he lives there and sees everything. So, which is it? Residential or business? The c&c just look the other way on that? WTF?

When it was built it was zoned for mixed usage- many of the small business owners lived (or at least slept) there. I think it was later changed to commercial only. Maybe some are grandfathered in.

[BlueCloud]

Doesn't that mean that the building owner can't lease space with the intent of that space being used for residence, be it temporary or permanent?

This is what is shows on another search site:

DPC: you /33/30 BMX-3 COMM.

So it looks like the zoning is BMX means Business Mixed use. So it can be used for both residential use as well as commercial use.

Land Use Ordinance says:

"The intent of the BMX-3 community business mixed use districts is to provide areas for both commercial and residential uses outside of the central business mixed use district and at a lower intensity than the central business mixed use district. Typically, this district would be applied to areas along major thoroughfares adjacent to B-2, BMX-4, A-3, AMX-2 and AMX-3 zoning districts. It is also intended that it be applied to areas where the existing land use pattern is already a mixture of commercial and residential uses, occurring horizontally, vertically or both. ".