Speaking of our mayor, he too took advantage of this program for his house which is currently assessed at $2.6 million dollars. For the five years prior to being elected he only paid a total of $900 in property taxes for those five years combined. He did change his category back to non-historical just before taking office, so now he is paying the same as the rest of us....but one wonders when he leaves office in 2020, will he revert back to paying $300/yr. if the mayor came to the realization that it would be politically uncorrect to be the mayor and only pay $300/yr.....there must be something wrong with the program

There is a informative SA article about this at 

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2010/09/12/hawaii-news/hidden-homes-get-big-tax-breaks/

It is an old article from 2010, would be nice if SA would blow the dust off of it, update it and reprint it.