01-16-2013, 10:31 AM
It is a really cheap shot to constantly rag on the residents of HPP for being NIMBYs when talking about the PMAR, but in my case we are talking about the PMAR literally running through my backyard!
Before buying in HPP we did thorough due diligence, I found every possible route that had ever been publicly discussed and we bought a place that was not on any of those routes. Right after we closed on our home, a route that will take the back 120 feet of my yard was added. Our house sits high up on a hill and then drops off rapidly to the back, we would have to build a 45 ft. wall to have any privacy or sound barrier between us and all of lower Puna commuting through my back yard to Hilo every day. That route was added because of concerns voiced by Bill Walters of the Shipman properties.
Why are the concerns of one powerful family allowed to outweigh all the public input and personal concerns of an entire subdivision with a population of over 11,000? Why are we accused of being NIMBYs but the Shipman wealth is allowed to dictate where, if or when the PMAR will be built? A PMAR is needed, people in HPP know that, but we do want to have some say in how our subdivision is split in half, and how the route is chosen, is that so unreasonable?
Finally, we are all punatics, dividing us up by subdivision, and pitting the makai and mauka communities against each other, is the perfect way for the rich and powerful to shove some really terrible plan down our throats that fits THEIR vision of where Puna should be developing. Do you really want to aid and abet in that process by pointing fingers at HPP?
Carol
Before buying in HPP we did thorough due diligence, I found every possible route that had ever been publicly discussed and we bought a place that was not on any of those routes. Right after we closed on our home, a route that will take the back 120 feet of my yard was added. Our house sits high up on a hill and then drops off rapidly to the back, we would have to build a 45 ft. wall to have any privacy or sound barrier between us and all of lower Puna commuting through my back yard to Hilo every day. That route was added because of concerns voiced by Bill Walters of the Shipman properties.
Why are the concerns of one powerful family allowed to outweigh all the public input and personal concerns of an entire subdivision with a population of over 11,000? Why are we accused of being NIMBYs but the Shipman wealth is allowed to dictate where, if or when the PMAR will be built? A PMAR is needed, people in HPP know that, but we do want to have some say in how our subdivision is split in half, and how the route is chosen, is that so unreasonable?
Finally, we are all punatics, dividing us up by subdivision, and pitting the makai and mauka communities against each other, is the perfect way for the rich and powerful to shove some really terrible plan down our throats that fits THEIR vision of where Puna should be developing. Do you really want to aid and abet in that process by pointing fingers at HPP?
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