PLDC must go, witnesses tell state

Lawmakers will consider repealing the controversial agency, which has clouded other development plans

By Derrick DePledge

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 10, 2013

~~<p>A state agency established to streamline private development on public lands was widely decried Saturday as a misguided handout to profiteers.</p>
<p>At a five-hour hearing at the state Capitol, critics urged lawmakers to scrap the Public Land Development Corp., which was given broad exemptions from land use regulations as an incentive to attract private development on underused state property.</p>
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A state agency established to streamline private development on public lands was widely decried Saturday as a misguided handout to profiteers.

At a five-hour hearing at the state Capitol, critics urged lawmakers to scrap the Public Land Development Corp., which was given broad exemptions from land use regulations as an incentive to attract private development on underused state property. Login for more...