02-12-2011, 08:20 AM
Macuu222,
I feel your pain having once lived on a quiet dead end lane where what had been a large single family lot was turned into a high density development and ruined everyone else's quality of life.
If anyone looked at the maps of Puna even 25 years ago, the likelihood of people eventually building on even a portion of those thousands of empty subdivision lots, with accompanying traffic impact on Highway 130 had to be apparent. As long as the those lots were platted as buildable lots, the increase in people and traffic was inevitable, it was just a matter of when, not if.
I drove the length of 15th and 5th today, both are fairly undeveloped, but a road down the back of the lots on the makai side of 15th would bisect a very large (6-8 acres) greenhouse complex, which would be expensive to mitigate, that probably rules out going between 15th and 14th. Between 15th and 16th There are several duplexes and other houses placed on the very back of the lots at the Maku'u end alone. Again expensive to mitigate. My guess is the route will eventually fall mauka of 5th and makai of 13th, probably somewhere HPPOA and the original developers have large parcels abutting the route.
The real question is what will happen at the other end; this project really ought to continue on until it joins Railroad in Hilo, but Shipmans oppose that vehemently and they have a lot of power here. Just sending the traffic up Shower to the highway would be just plain stupid.
Carol
I feel your pain having once lived on a quiet dead end lane where what had been a large single family lot was turned into a high density development and ruined everyone else's quality of life.
If anyone looked at the maps of Puna even 25 years ago, the likelihood of people eventually building on even a portion of those thousands of empty subdivision lots, with accompanying traffic impact on Highway 130 had to be apparent. As long as the those lots were platted as buildable lots, the increase in people and traffic was inevitable, it was just a matter of when, not if.
I drove the length of 15th and 5th today, both are fairly undeveloped, but a road down the back of the lots on the makai side of 15th would bisect a very large (6-8 acres) greenhouse complex, which would be expensive to mitigate, that probably rules out going between 15th and 14th. Between 15th and 16th There are several duplexes and other houses placed on the very back of the lots at the Maku'u end alone. Again expensive to mitigate. My guess is the route will eventually fall mauka of 5th and makai of 13th, probably somewhere HPPOA and the original developers have large parcels abutting the route.
The real question is what will happen at the other end; this project really ought to continue on until it joins Railroad in Hilo, but Shipmans oppose that vehemently and they have a lot of power here. Just sending the traffic up Shower to the highway would be just plain stupid.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb