To the Candidates, What will you do to fix the new

[JerryCarr]

Thank you, KeaauRich, for summing this up so well. At a time when home ownership is becoming a fading dream for many, why do we want to make it more difficult? Why do we want to adopt a code that has many elements that don't have any relationship to the climate and other realities of the Big Island? The permitting process that we have now doesn't work well, yet we want to make it more complicated. There's something wrong with this picture. As a dear friend pointed out when I mentioned this, the answer may lie in "follow the money." Who stands to profit from the new code?