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the Future of Puna - kalakoa - 10-23-2014
Puna keeps growing while the development paradigms remain unchanged, so the "solution" is presented as more roads and bigger highways to handle the increased traffic.
Eventually, this place will have all the congestion and gridlock that people moved here to escape.
Maybe, just maybe, we can set aside the various petty bickering and find some real long-term solutions?
RE: the Future of Puna - pahoated - 11-30-2014
Why don't you take up your issues with the PCDP? Or better yet, get appointed. Uncle Billy just appointed 3 more members to the PCDP and they were all approved by the county council. Kind of a hoot, didn't know PCDP still existed.
quote:
Comm. 490: NOMINATES MS. LEILA I. B. W. KEALOHA, MS. SUSAN L. OSBORNE,
AND MR. ELMER R. SOLIS TO THE PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE
From Mayor William P. Kenoi, dated October 28, 2013, submitting for Council’s
review and confirmation the above nominations.
"Mahalo nui Pele, 'ae noho ia moku 'aina" - kakahiaka oli
RE: the Future of Puna - kalakoa - 12-01-2014
Why don't you take up your issues with the PCDP?
The PCDP is basically irrelevant. Wasting the bandwidth to post on a forum is probably twice as effective as any non-stakeholder (meaning: not a large local landowner and/or wealthy developer) process participation.
The fun part is waiting to see where the next development "happens anyway".
RE: the Future of Puna - ironyak - 12-01-2014
It has been mentioned elsewhere that the CDPs were needed by the state to secure federal funds, but that they are entirely ignorable by local auhorities such as county planning.
Rob, is this summary generally correct?
If so, what would be the goal of current or future PCDP efforts?
RE: the Future of Puna - Rob Tucker - 12-02-2014
It is generally correct. Those of us who participated in the PCDP were not told the county was merely required to gather community input and not required to rely on that community input. There were a lot of people who put a lot of effort into it. Ultimately the Puna CDP was compromised by council member J Yoshimoto, Billy Kenoi and Bill Walter of Shipman Ltd. Consistent with local history the largest landowner got to edit the final plan to his liking.
However,
As it stands the PCDP does have some minimal influence. It is a record of the community's intents for future growth and has had effect on Council. What future influence it may have will ultimately depend on the integrity of our Mayor's and councils and whether of not Puna's largest landowner approves or not.
Paternalism reigns in Hawaii.
RE: the Future of Puna - Seeb - 12-02-2014
If want to get something done you need 5 votes on the council. The rest is just wasting time and effort.
RE: the Future of Puna - Rob Tucker - 12-02-2014
Well, we got the original PCDP passed by 5 votes of council. At a later date Yoshimoto gathered his five votes to make Shipman's amendments. Yoshimoto is lawyer and carries water for whomever pays the bill. Pretty much the same for Billy Kenoi.
RE: the Future of Puna - kalakoa - 12-02-2014
CDPs ... are entirely ignorable by local auhorities such as county planning.
I believe the offical stance is that CDPs "have no legal merit" -- which determination was published in the HTH, and is probably searchable from the archives of these forums.
It is a record of the community's intents for future growth
Yes: the community decided that everything should be in "designated commercial centers", any of which are either one-road-in-or-out or in-the-path-of-lava, sometimes both.
the largest landowner got to edit the final plan to his liking
Economic factors are still involved, or there would be more strip malls by now. The fact that there's still empty commercial space suggests either a lackluster economy, or that the existing space is too expensive (eg, a truly small business can't afford additional rent and travel time).
RE: the Future of Puna - Rob Tucker - 12-02-2014
The Village Center focus was in response to the overwhelming desire of residents to keep Puna as rural as possible. One major way to accomplish that was to prevent strip mall commercial development of Hwy 130. To date this has been successful. All attempts to install commercial development, to date, directly on Hwy 130 have been thwarted.
The one road in and out is the reality of the situation. PMAR - an alternate route to Hilo- was endorsed by the PCDP but opposed by Shipman and the NIMBYs of HPP.... so guess what.... nothing has happened.
Kalakoa may think strip malls are great but the mass of Puna residents disagree.
RE: the Future of Puna - kalakoa - 12-02-2014
Kalakoa may think strip malls are great but the mass of Puna residents disagree.
Never said I liked strip malls, nor that any development necessarily had to be "on the highway".
keep Puna as rural as possible
Miles of bumper-to-bumper congestion during rush hour is hardly "rural".
prevent strip mall commercial development of Hwy 130
With a side effect of preventing any commercial development near a highway anywhere in Puna, unless the State decides to install a roundabout there.
Bigger problem: applying 18th century solutions to 19th century problems. What decade is it again?