Citing violations ranging from poor land husbandry to evidence of a junkyard and the possibility of a cockfighting operation, the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources will consider a request to revoke the lease on a 10-acre Panaewa parcel.
The board is set to weigh in on the request, submitted by Department of Land and Natural Resources land agent Dan Gushiken, during a meeting today in Honolulu.
The property in question is currently leased from the state to Miyashiro Poultry & Hog Farm Inc. A general lease on the 10.097 acres in Panaewa was awarded via a public drawing in 1965. It was set to expire in November 2020. The land lease was for “piggery use,” a DLNR spokesperson said in an email to the Tribune-Herald.
The business itself was founded by Tokio and Kiyoko Miyashiro, both now deceased. It was involuntarily dissolved in 2012, according to filings with the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
According to the documents, the lease has since been assigned to Marvin Miyashiro, who could not be located by press time. Attempts to reach Rodney Miyashiro, Tokio and Kiyoko’s son, also was not successful by press time.
A DLNR inspection of the property was conducted on Jan. 29, initiated by a Notice of Default for rental payments.