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I have two questions in regard to Kauai's rights to local rule and their inherent right to self-determination. In NY State, local governments(meaning counties, towns and villages) can enact laws and rules to protect themselves from unwise or unlimited development, including zoning laws, planned development rules, etc. Can Kauai County revise or enact zoning rules to limit what developers can develop(ie, slow or stop hotels, use heavy mitigation rules to force hotels or malls deal in handling traffic, such as making developers make ruinous investments in local infrastructure to discourage them)? OR do developers already have control of the island government and it is too late to save it? They obviously cannot stop intrastate commerce as that is not a local rule issue. But there are other things that can be done.
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