ROH §8-8.7
When the City Can Remove Wasteland Property Tax Break
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗If the owner breaks any law or rule, the city can take away the special wasteland property tax break. The owner gets a notice, and then must pay back the tax savings plus a penalty. This section explains that process.
landowners
The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Declassification
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Thirty days after notification to the owner by the department for noncompliance of any law, ordinance, rule or regulation, the director may declassify any land classified as wasteland development property. The department shall notify the owner of the declassification and in that event, the director shall cancel the special tax assessment provided in § 8-8.6 retroactive to the date that the property qualified for special tax assessment and the difference between the real property taxes that would have become due and payable but for such classification for all the years the land was classified as wasteland development property and the real property taxes paid by the owner during such period shall become immediately due and payable together with a 5 percent a year penalty from the respective dates that such additional tax would otherwise have been due.
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