Summary
The committee is deciding which A-1/A-2 apartment-zoned condo properties can be rezoned to Hotel so their short-term rental uses continue after Bill 9 phases out TVRs in apartment districts. Each unit kept in TVR use is a unit not returned to the long-term housing stock.
At a glance
- Total mentions
- 5
- Last 30 days
- 0
Discussed at 1 meeting in the last 60 days; most recently Sep 9, 2026.
Impact analysis
Rezoned properties keep paying TVR/hotel tax rates rather than returning units to the long-term rental market; the county also collects continued TAT and GET revenue.
TVR property owners and operators who can continue short-term rentals.
Residents seeking long-term housing, since these units stay out of the residential market.
Mentions & discussions (5)
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) — September 9, 2026
The committee is deciding which A-1/A-2 apartment-zoned condo properties can be rezoned to Hotel so their short-term rental uses continue after Bill 9 phases out TVRs in apartment districts. Each unit kept in TVR use is a unit not returned to the long-term housing stock.
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) — July 1, 2026
The committee is deciding which of the county's apartment-zoned condo properties get moved into the new H3/H4 hotel districts, preserving their legal short-term rental use. Everything else could eventually return to the long-term housing pool. The lists, criteria, and process for adding or removing properties are still being worked out.
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) — May 26, 2026
This bill creates two new hotel zoning districts that mirror the apartment districts but let existing TVR properties keep operating — a potential lifeline for Minatoya-list condos facing the Bill 9 phase-out. Supporters call it a promised companion measure; opponents call it a carve-out that could quietly undo Bill 9. The full Council makes the final call.
Council of the County of Maui — January 7, 2026
The council sent a bill creating H-3 and H-4 hotel districts to the planning commissions 8-1. It would let apartment-zoned properties with short-term rental history keep operating after Bill 9's five-year phase-out. Amendments adding shoreline armoring bans and coastal retreat rules failed, with several members wanting a countywide approach instead.
Housing and Land Use Committee (2025-2027) — January 5, 2026
Maui is considering two new zoning categories that would let apartment-district condo complexes keep running as vacation rentals after Bill 9's phase-out. Same building rules as apartment zoning — no new development — but TVRs become a permitted use. The council would still have to rezone individual properties later.
Related development
Resolution 26-129 — SLR-XA Apartment District TVR rezoning referral
If forwarded and eventually adopted, these condo buildings would stay in the visitor pool instead of becoming long-term homes — removing attainable housing from neighborhoods like Māʻalaea, Kīhei, and Lahaina.
Bill 88 (2026) — H-3 and H-4 Hotel Districts
If adopted, it opens a path for certain short-term rental condos to keep operating as visitor accommodations, with any actual rezoning decided later by the Council.
H-3 and H-4 Hotel Districts (proposed bill via Resolution 25-230)
If adopted and later used for rezonings, thousands of apartment-district condo units could continue operating as short-term rentals instead of converting to long-term housing.
Resolution 26-129 — A-1/A-2 Apartment District properties in SLR-XA (Kīhei, Mā'alaea, Lahaina)
These properties could keep operating as short-term rentals instead of converting to housing; the referral now goes to the Planning Commission for review.
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