OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR -- NEWS RELEASE -- GOV. GREEN, LOCAL OFFICIALS ADDRESS COMMUNITY CONCERNS RELATING TO WILDFIRE RESPONSE, RECOVERY

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"I've reached out to the Attorney General to explore options to do a moratorium on any sales of properties that have been damaged or destroyed. Moreover, I would caution people that it's going to be a very long time, before any growth, or housing can be built. And so, you would be pretty poorly informed if you try to steal land from our people and then build here."

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"In discussions last night, amongst colleagues of mine, people I trust, we're hopeful to create a memorial for the people of the state of Hawai"i in this site. We'll also invest state resources to preserve and protect this land for our people; not for any development, for our people locally.

I'll also tell you that this is going to impact how we view, because of tragedy, how we view all of the development in our state. And much of what we do, is challenged by other laws, federal and otherwise, that don't let us restrict who can buy in our state. But we can do it deliberately during a crisis, and that's what we're doing. So for my part I will try to allow no one from outside our state to buy any land until we get through this crisis and decide what Lāhainā should be in the future."

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