Kau v. City and County of Honolulu

Opinion of the Court by

DUFFY, J.

Petitioners/plaintiffs-appellants Violet Leong Kau, et al. [hereinafter, Fee Owners], applied for a writ of certiorari to review the published opinion of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) in Kau v. City and County of Honolulu, 104 Hawai'i 490, 92 P.3d 1000, 2001 WL 1205618 (App.2001) [hereinafter, the ICA’s opinion or Kau /]. Based on the following, we affirm in part and reverse in part the ICA’s opinion.

In 1994, Rodney E. Gardiner, et al. [hereinafter, Lessees] submitted applications to the City and County of Honolulu (City), requesting the initiation of…