Shipman's "New Keaau"

[randomq]

Foodland is going to need a parking garage...

[Tink]

I know this is going to sound stooped, because the answer is quite clear, but why don't they make Shipman pay for the road, fire, police infrastructure for his new "worker village", as most cities and counties do?

Community begins with Aloha

[ironyak]

Don't forget about the related $48 million dollar waste water treatment plant, and the $10.5 million for the County's proposed Organics Facility (being built in Shipman Park).

Public information meeting - September 6, 2018, at 5:30 pm, Kea'au Community Center.
http://oeqc2.doh.hawaii.gov/EA_EIS_Libra...y-Puna.pdf

No wonder the County is so strapped for cash - they keep giving it to favored private developments. When lava evacuees, no can, when can, Shipman!

[Chunkster]

It could go behind the Star-Advertiser paywall at any moment, but here's today's article on the Shipman Keaau project:

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/09/03...e32b4d1fdc

And someone local to Puna made a salient remark in the comments:

"I find it more than coincidental that this project was announced when the eruption gravy train is leaving the station. The Shipmans have deep good old boy political connections, and we should watch our wallets."

[kalakoa]

for instance highway connecting routes with double the traffic

New Keaau is predicated on the assumption that people will walk everywhere (on the road shoulder, in the rain). This is unrealistic, but if the varnish is shiny enough nobody will notice until it's too late.

Note also that the plan doesn't include any alternate routes, such as connecting the new commercial sector to the existing industrial park...

the $10.5 million for the County's proposed Organics Facility (being built in Shipman Park)

Has anyone else noticed that (almost) all industrial-zoned land is owned by State or Shipman? Thus, any industrial use means lease payments... even to serve a public function (transfer station, organics facility).

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

The Shipmans have deep good old boy political connections
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No wonder the County is so strapped for cash - they keep giving it to favored private developments.
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And again:
Jeff Darrow, county planning program manager, said the county anticipates a finding of no significant impact for the project.

I find it mind boggling that single structure projects, individual homes, or Richard Ha's dispensary can get held up by the planning department for months, even years, and yet a development that will double the population of Keaau not only gets rubber stamped, it gets pre-rubber stamped.

Thanks ironyak:
Organics Facility (being built in Shipman Park) Public information meeting - September 6, 2018, at 5:30 pm, Kea'au Community Center.

At a White House meeting in June, President Trump reportedly told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “I remember Pearl Harbor.”

[AaronM]

Is that stupid urinal permitted yet? I want a Luquins margarita so bad.