Greg Brown's illegal monster "Hotel" fraudulently built in Napili is back on the market for $12.9 mil, and this time they are creatively offering four fractional ownerships at $3.5 Mil each. 
https://www.cohanahomes.com/properties/5385-l-honoapiilani-rd-lahaina-hi

The building is, of course, permitted and zoned as a single-family residence, but we all know that that's a lie. The structure is a duplex with a single entry and elevator, separating what could be used as two private homes, each with six bedrooms and baths, each having its own full kitchen (though one had just its stovetop removed), dining room, living room, and more. 

Originally, there were to have been two pools, but now there is a single pool and hot tub on the roof. Since fractional ownerships are restricted to 180 days without triggering short-term rental restrictions, it would seem that two owners would share the duplex for six months at a time.

All well and good except that the place is permitted as a single-family home, not a duplex. 

Also, with 12 bedrooms, there are only 8 parking spaces. There is county paperwork to show that another 4 spaces were promised by Brown to be improved and dedicated to the county, but those spaces just happen to be along the Hui Rd, which, of course, Brown has no right to improve or dedicate, and so once they lied about it to get their permits, that never happened.

Another interesting distinction is that the listing for this fractional share is the only place where the building is acknowledged to have 12 bedrooms; everywhere else, it's listed as eight bedrooms. Woops!

It's worth noting that the structure is 45 feet tall, which is only allowed for hotels. Nowhere in Maui County is there a single-family home that is taller than 30 feet. 

That's why they're looking forward to this Bill 183 variance to raise Front Street to 35 feet. That entire debate proves that Greg Brown's house was never legal and still isn't today. 

After the Palama Dr. debacle, which cost the county probably $20 million, the council enacted legislation to specifically protect the county so that a developer can no longer sue the county claiming the county screwed up by allowing them to build something improper. Now, even though a permit has been issued, it does not make an illegal structure legal. All of this is on Greg Brown, the engineers, and his lawyers. A more corrupt bunch you cannot find.

That nothing was done about this gross violation falls squarely on Council Member Paltin's shoulders, as it was she who killed an approved full council legal investigation into how this ever got built, claiming that spending $90k was too much for taxpayers to pay. 

Had Paltin not killed the investigation, taxpayers would not have now paid outside law firm KSG nearly $1 million dollars and counting to defend the County in the ongoing legal battle over the improper termination for blowing the whistle on Greg Brown's monster of Chris Salem, then employed by Mayor Victorino to write legislation to stop exactly this kind of abuse from happening. 

In the past 30 days, KSG has probably earned another 1/4 million dollars in fees, for which they have not yet billed the County.

The cover-up of past corruption is only getting worse, and, as is common, it is more egregious than the original crimes.

This fight is not going away. Mayor Victorino tried to clean this mess up, but now under Mayor Bissen’s watch, Corporation Counsel's corrupt conspiracy has spread to the County Auditor and the Ethics Commission, with a related official Sunshine Violation investigation of Corporation Counsel launched by the Office of Information Practices (which Corp Counsel is refusing to cooperate with), and a Regulated Industries Complaints Office (RICO) investigation into five real property titles slandered by a County “3-Lot-or-Less” subdivision agreement through the manipulation of private warranty deeds by private attorney David Nakamura, who now represents the County Auditor Lance Taguchi. 

Unless the Council finally acknowledges its duty and asserts its existing power to confront the corrupt conspiracy between the Depts. of Planning, Public Works, Corporation Counsel, and now the Auditor and Ethics Board, it will cost taxpayers many millions more.