This common sense legislation would ensure that Hawai‘i homeowners have the choice to save money and save energy by using the hot sun and trade winds to dry their clothes. This may sound frivolous, but when you consider that the average family produces over one ton of greenhouse gas annually from typical electric clothes dryer usage, any restriction on clothesline use sounds criminal. Clotheslines also save money. A family switching to a clothesline on Kauai can expect to save about $450 annually, while a family on Kauai would save about $250. Yet many homeowner associations prohibit or restrict the use of clotheslines for aesthetic reasons. For example, the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions for the Ewa by Gentry development state that “...no outside clothes line or other outside clothes drying or airing facilities shall be maintained on any lot unless the same are screened from view and are not visible from neighboring property.” While such an aesthetic condition might have been acceptable 20 years ago, it makes no sense today to restrict smart energy-saving behavior given what we now know about global climate change. These bills would prohibit such sweeping restrictions on clothesline usage. HB 3211 has yet to be scheduled in FIN; SB 2933 in WAM Friday, Feb 22.