Citizens for the Protection of the North Kohala Coastline Ex Rel. Withington v. County of Hawai'i

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• recognizing that “environmental review must occur early enough to function practically as an input into the decision making process” because “[ajfter major investment of both time and money, it is likely that more environmental harm will be tolerated”
• noting that standing principles are governed by “prudential” considerations and that standing requisites may be tempered, or even prescribed, by legislative and eonstitu-tional declarations of policy
• allowing for a 12 The regional park district, defined and regulated under MCC § 19.615.040 (2013
• plaintiffs' alleged injury to recreational use of shoreline was sufficient injury in fact to confer standing in declaratory judgment action challenging proposed shoreline development
• “[Construction of two underpasses under a state highway constitutes use of state lands for purposes of HRS 343-5(a)(l) (1993).”
• “[Defendant’s] reliance on Lujan . . . [is] misplaced, inasmuch as the United States Supreme Court’s doctrine on the issue of standing does not bind us.”

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