Iokepa Gomes, chair of Department of Hawaiian Home Lands recently announced the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) has launched a Revocable Permit (RP) pilot program that is slated to offer short-term land dispositions on three DHHL parcels as a means to assess the pilot’s outreach and application process.
The Hawaiian Homes Commission is pegged to oversee completion of the program and related evaluation under the categories of business, community and general, with all of them slated to be made available in Kalaeloa, Oʻahu; Waimānalo, Oʻahu; and Honomū, Hawaiʻi Island.
The program also will oversee short-term land dispositions on three DHHL parcels, all in the name of assessing the Pilot’s outreach and application process. Completion of the pilot program and associated evaluation will ultimately be placed before the Hawaiian Homes Commission for consideration of an expanded permanent program.
On a short term basis, the RPs will grant permission for the use of the specified lots, including on a month-to-month basis.
“Revocable Permits are a critical tool used by state agencies that provide flexibility in the stewardship of unencumbered lands,” Tyler Iokepa Gomes, deputy to the chair said in a press release from Gov. David Ige’s office. “This RP Pilot Program will provide the department with a land management resource to increase physical presence, deterring trespassers, illegal dumping and other potentially unlawful activities.”
Established by the U.S. Congress in 1921 with the passage of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, the Hawaiian homesteading program run by DHHL includes management of over 200,000 acres of land statewide with the specific purpose of developing and delivering homesteading.