NUUANU NEIGHBORHOOD ASS'N v. DEPT. OF LAND

No. 7756.

630 P.2d 107 (1981)

The NUUANU NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, a Hawaii Non-Profit Corporation, David Ikegami, James G.Y. Ho, Malcolm Ing, Jean Mori, and Myra S.Y. Watt, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The DEPARTMENT OF LAND UTILIZATION OF the CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, Tyrone Kusao, Director of Land Utilization and Dowsett Highlands Land Trust, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Reconsideration Denied July 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Cooper Brown, Honolulu (Boyce R. Brown, Jr. and Mary Blaine Durant, Honolulu, with him on the briefs, Brown & Bettencourt, Honolulu, of counsel) for plaintiffs-appellants.

Winston K.Q. Wong, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Honolulu, for defendants-appellees Dept. of Land Utilization and Tyrone Kusao, Director of Land Utilization.

Paul Devens, Honolulu (Francis I. Yamashita, Honolulu, with him on the brief, Ikazaki, Devens, Lo, Youth & Nakano, Honolulu, of counsel) for defendant-appellee Dowsett Highlands Land Trust.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., OGATA and LUM, JJ., MARUMOTO, Retired Justice, in place of NAKAMURA, J., recused and CHANG, Circuit Judge, in place of MENOR, J., excused.


MARUMOTO, Retired Justice.

The question for decision in this case is whether 45.783 acres of land in Nuuanu Valley, Honolulu, owned by Dowsett Highlands Land Trust, for which the owner has submitted to the Department of Land Utilization of the City and County of Honolulu an application for subdivision into 58 lots as residential lots in R-3 Residential district established in the Comprehensive Zoning Code of the City and County of Honolulu, are legally zoned for residential...

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