the NIMBY tax

[pahoated]

So, you do realize the development proposal is a gentrification proposal? In fact, this would be a model gentrification development.

The developer has offered to do the arsenic cleanup if the development is approved. The other problem is the cliff is sliding, a huge section slid off not long ago. He won't care because he will be like one of the developers of the Puna developments, let the saps take care of it. The county taking it over before that would spare them the problem with eroding land on a vacant park area or dealing with dozens of whining, complaining malihini kamaaina-wannabes.

"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"

[HiloPuna]

PT

I'm not sure developing open or agricultural land into residential lots can be categorized as "gentrification" which is commonly understood to be the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating urban areas that often displaces poorer residents. Not wanting to quibble too much over terminology, but words do matter and the more precise the use the more cogent the argument.