▪ Kauai Zoning Permit Case Reported

Kauai's newspaper, in a story entitled "Kauai Springs operating for now," reports on a case:

“We’re in a holding pattern,” said Robert Thomas, an attorney with Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert representing Kaua‘i Springs.

In March, Kaua‘i Springs appealed the Planning Commission’s decision to deny its request for a use permit, special permit and Class IV Zoning permit.

The company had requested the additional permits after a competitor complained that it was conducting industrial activity on agricultural lands, according to Thomas.

When owner Jim Satterfield set up shop in 2004, he did so with county, state and federal approval.

Thomas said that while his client did not agree that more permits were necessary when the issue came up earlier this year, he decided to pursue them because there had not been problems in the past.

Full article here.