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Except that the drunk people are on Luquin's property, actually hanging out on the lanai. I work right next to the place. Nobody ever tells them to leave. Tell me that's not bad for business? Before you might be lucky to get a parking spot up close, now you are forced to drive/walk by them. Maybe there was nobody in the restaurant before because of that deterrent. But hey, if that's what Luquin's wants, that is their business. I just know that I would not put up with screaming drunk people on my property if it was my business.
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What I heard is that the parking lot was sited by the county because of the holes in front. I'm sure it's thousands of dollars to pave the 20-30 feet off the road and is being delt with/ or not.
The loads of cinder and gravel just wash away every time so I'm sure they are requiring it to be paved and since it's private property the county will not subsidize any of it.
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If Sal Luquin is expected by the members of Punaweb to solve the parking and the homeless problem; Why can't we demand that he bring about world peace also?
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I thought that the Hippies, drunks and "riff-raff" were part of the tourist attraction to Pahoa.
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It is unfair for people to expect Luquin's to provide free parking for all the businesses on that strip.
Hawaii: land of decades-old ancient traditions.
People expect County to provide free pavement for all the houses on their private street, while refusing to pay higher taxes and/or road maintenance dues.
Perhaps the subdivisions should follow Luquin's example and gate their roads.
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quote:
Originally posted by DanielP
I thought that the Hippies, drunks and "riff-raff" were part of the tourist attraction to Pahoa.
Peeing in the parking lot and getting into fist fights is the mainlander newspeak translation of pono and aloha. Hopefully, tourists will see this and take back their impressions to their mainlands. I remember one guy on the mainland that gave me a dire, frightened warning, "Oh no, you don't want to go to Puna." Should have listened to him (just kidding).
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
