While obtaining regulatory approvals are a service The Planning Studio can assist clients with and is pleased to offer to clients, because the majority of our work is international in nature, we seldom get involved in project approvals and local regulations. But, we did have one project that was a master planning project, but it was also all about …

Background In the late 1980’s when I was working for Helber, Hastert, Van Horn and Kimura in Honolulu we undertook the most bizarre project of my career. At the time, the office did a lot of military planning work for the U.S. Navy. I wasn’t involved in very much of it as I specialized in tourism, resort and residential projects. …

In 1987, I was a planner/designer for a company in Honolulu named Helber, Hastert, Van Horn and Kimura Planners. One day, an Indian fellow from Cleveland, Ohio came into our office for a meeting. He brought with him a large stack of topographic maps. He told us of his incredible plans to build a “mega resort” on the coast of …