The Maui County Council has come to its senses…sort of…maybe:

The Maui County Council's Planning Committee reversed itself Tuesday and voted to allow bed-and-breakfasts to be located in agricultural districts…The package of bills still needs full council approval, but the Planning Committee voted 3-2 to support repealing the bed-and-breakfast ban on agricultural land…The Planning Committee previously broadened the definition of bed-and-breakfast operations to allow a property owner with two homes on a single lot to live in one house and rent out the other as a short-term vacation rental. The committee also voted to allow bed-and-breakfasts on rurally designated land.

We applaud this which is a step in the right direction. But it is only a step. This does not address other kinds of Maui real estate like along the oceanfront, not have the politicians yet determined whether managers will be permitted or whether this only applies to those living on-site. We will keep you apprised.