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Oʻahu · City Council

Committee on Zoning and Planning, Thursday, July 16, 2026

As the agenda prints it
COMMITTEE ON ZONING & PLANNING · REGULAR MEETING · CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER · 9:00 A.M.
Voting members, as printed
Esther Kiaʻāina, Chair; Tommy Waters, Vice Chair; Radiant Cordero; Val A. Okimoto; Andria Tupola
The council's document
Agenda (PDF, 4 pages). Testimony instructions are on the agenda.

For action: 3 items

2. RESOLUTION 26-159

ADOPT RULES PROHIBITING THE HARVEST OF AQUATIC LIFE. Urging the State Board of Land and Natural Resources to direct the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources, to adopt rules prohibiting the harvest of aquatic life from State of Hawaiʻi marine waters for commercial aquarium purposes.

The measure in the council's system
RES26-159: URGING THE STATE BOARD OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES, DIVISION OF AQUATIC RESOURCES, TO ADOPT RULES PROHIBITING THE HARVEST OF AQUATIC LIFE FROM STATE OF HAWAIʻI MARINE WATERS FOR COMMERCIAL AQUARIUM PURPOSES. Introduced by ESTHER KIAʻĀINA, TOMMY WATERS, July 8, 2026
Last event, as the system prints it: Aug. 12, 2026. Committee report and Resolution were adopted.
Board area
Not placed: the item prints no tax map key.

3. RESOLUTION 26-160

ENACT LEGISLATION THAT PROHIBITS THE HARVEST OF AQUATIC LIFE. Urging the Hawaiʻi State Legislature to enact legislation that prohibits the harvest of aquatic life from State of Hawaiʻi marine waters for commercial aquarium purposes.

The measure in the council's system
RES26-160: URGING THE HAWAIʻI STATE LEGISLATURE TO ENACT LEGISLATION THAT PROHIBITS THE HARVEST OF AQUATIC LIFE FROM STATE OF HAWAIʻI MARINE WATERS FOR COMMERCIAL AQUARIUM PURPOSES. Introduced by MATT WEYER, TYLER DOS SANTOS-TAM, July 8, 2026
Last event, as the system prints it: Aug. 12, 2026. Committee report and Resolution were adopted.
Board area
Not placed: the item prints no tax map key.

4. RESOLUTION 26-165

91-121 ‘ŌLA‘I STREET – KAPOLEI (2026/SMA-12). Granting a Special Management Area Major Permit to Starfish Infrastructure Inc. and Humuhumu Services, LLC to allow for the cable landing and installation of six new trans-Pacific subsea fiber-optic telecommunication cables via horizontal directional drilling within Barber’s Point Beach Park and the shoreline setback of a shoreline lot zoned P-2 General Preservation District, located at 91-121 ‘ŌIa‘i Street, and identified as Tax Map Key 9-1-026: 027. (Applicants: Starfish Infrastructure Inc. and Humuhumu Services, LLC) (Transmitted by Communication D-477[26]) (Current Deadline: 9/7/26)

Tax map key
(1) 9-1-026:027
The department's file
2026-SMA-12: Oahu Subsea Cable Telecommunication (2026-SMA-12 & 2026-SV-1)
The measure in the council's system
RES26-165: GRANTING A SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA MAJOR PERMIT TO ALLOW FOR THE OʻAHU SUBSEA CABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROJECT IN KAPOLEI, OʻAHU. Introduced by TOMMY WATERS - By Request, July 10, 2026
Last event, as the system prints it: Aug. 12, 2026. Committee report and Resolution as amended were adopted.
Applicant, as printed
Starfish Infrastructure Inc. and Humuhumu Services, LLC
Current deadline, as printed
9/7/26
Board area
Makakilo-Kapolei-Honokai Hale

Read by script from the agenda PDF (pipeline/auto_zon_agendas.py): the items were lifted by pattern, and the agenda was added only because every numbered line parsed; a person has not reviewed this page. Only the items under the agenda's “For action” headings are carried; briefings and presentations printed before them are not. Copied from the committee's agenda in the City Council's document system, read Sept. 19, 2026. Measure numbers, headings, names, figures and dates are the council's; page headers and page numbers were removed and nothing else was changed. An item is placed in a board area only by a tax map key it prints, checked against the State of Hawaiʻi's parcel layer, or by the map point of a department file it names. A place name alone does not place an item. The Ledger has not read the bills, resolutions or committee reports and takes no position.