Opponents rallied at the capitol ahead of Tuesday’s votes on four of the bills.
The projects with significant adverse impacts would be allowed in any urban area without environmental oversight.
Supporters say it streamlines the process to get projects and their jobs underway.
"What’s being proposed today is not streamlining, it is attempting to fundamentally exempt the government from having to comply with its own laws," says Robert Harris, Sierra Club.
"Call the legislators, kill these bills, they have no place in hawaii, it’s shameful," says Rep. Cynthia Thielen, (R) Kaneohe Bay-Kailua.
One of the bills would allow residential development on two of OHA’s ceded lands settlement parcels near Kewalo.
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