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Perhaps the mayor and county council can add a new tax category for stripped parcels and make it the highest rate on the table or a special assessment as an incentive for owners not to strip the land. To help "protect" the owner, any dozer operator is fined, say 5X's his fee for stripping the land unless written request from the owner, making it more profitable to do it right rather than quick.
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I specifically picked a lot with heavy with old ohia with the intent of eventually clearing out a driveway and a small area for a house. Several people warned me to pick a bulldozer operator carefully, to mark the perimeter clearly with bright red tape and to be there when the job was done. Reading this thread, I understand that warning better.
What puzzles me is that if someone hired a dozer operator and asked him to clear X and they clean the whole place out, wouldn’t the owner sue the operator or at the minimum not pay him at all?
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I am a big fan of "marker paint". When having a bulldozer - spend the big bucks on a couple of cans and spray out or mark area to be cleared!!! The marker paint will eventually dissapate and the operator will have a better idea of where to go.
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adias, forget the "sue the operator" since the people in these kind of businesses don't have anything to their names, not even bank accounts. If you decide not to pay them they will sue you though, and in addition, they will spread the word quickly that you didn't pay, so good luck finding workers for your buyilding project. It's like the "Catch 22!"
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Thanks for the explanation JR. I guess the moral of the story is pick a highly recommended operator to begin with!!!
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It's my understanding that the Punda CDP is trying to address this issue in the Land Use working group. I think they are looking at how to provide incentives for not clear cutting lots (the carrot) as well as how to enforce regulations (the stick).
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Perhaps environmental education through this website (since their are so many realtors on it.) can be an educational factor for newcomers to learn about being a little more conservative with the bulldozers (and alert with the spray paint) etc.. I always thought it would be neat to be a consultant for realtors. To create a means of identifying native and endangered species on land so the buyers can be more educated. Maybe even collect seeds from plants that might be endangered or of high value to the envorinment as a means of preserving them as well. I know I can't all out stop the bulldozing but maybe I can educate so the buyers are environmentally concious of what they are doing. It's just a thought.
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Try Roberta Brashear-Kaulfers for the identification of plants. (Email me and I can give out her contact info). She has been helpful to me with plant ID on some of the SMA app's I am working on. She charged me about $30 per hour and it took less than 1 1/2 hours. Roberta is a lecturer at HCC in biology, has worked and consulted with the Sierra Club on many projects with regards to reforestation and conservation. She is also a 25+ year resident of the Big Island and specifically Hi Acres. She is also a good source for places to buy/get native/idengiouness plants for reforestation and works with the kids at UHH on their annual rainforest plant sale.
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Perhaps environmental education through this website (since their are so many realtors on it.) can be an educational factor for newcomers to learn about being a little more conservative with the bulldozers (and alert with the spray paint) etc.. I always thought it would be neat to be a consultant for realtors. To create a means of identifying native and endangered species on land so the buyers can be more educated. Maybe even collect seeds from plants that might be endangered or of high value to the envorinment as a means of preserving them as well. I know I can't all out stop the bulldozing but maybe I can educate so the buyers are environmentally concious of what they are doing. It's just a thought.
kama`aina
We have a little booklet "Building in the Forest" and we distribute it to all of our clients.
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Great! I think I saw that before. but you can't fit all the plants in to a small little booklet. I think it was brochure sized. I thought it was a good book though.
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