The Maui News - The county government denied that an informal policy of not enforcing zoning regulations against transient vacation rentals ever amounted to a “contract” with operators. In a response to the Maui Vacation Rental Association’s (MVRA) suit in U.S. District Court, Deputy Corporation Counsel Jane Lovell wrote that the association lacks standing to sue for an injunction. The injunction, if granted, would prevent the county from closing down all unpermitted TVRs at the end of the year, as Planning Director Jeff Hunt has ordered. The county claims that the association does not own any real estate itself, so it cannot be harmed by zoning enforcement. Furthermore, the county contends that the members of the MVRA (who are not named within the original complaint) are so differently situated that they do not count as an associational class under federal law.