06-26-2013, 02:58 AM
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Originally posted by 4dognight
What's worse, having a road maintenance program and full-time employees to take care of the day-to-day chores of maintaining the sub-division OR, not having anything, driving around 4' wide potholes and deep, flooded lakes, depending 100% on volunteer labor to get things done.
Define "worse"? Things seem to be working just fine in my subdivision despite "not having anything"; instead of a "maintanance program/full-time employees", everyone takes personal responsibility -- I find it much preferable to paying mandatory road fees that aren't actually used to maintain anything.
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Originally posted by 4dognight
Maybe all this energy should be directed at making the county/state culpable for this mess. They force us to make our roads "public", therefore the public should take care of the roads. No more fighting. Our fuel and property taxes will be going to where they should be, for everyone's benefit, not just Hilo.
Fighting amongst ourselves is exactly what the county and state wants us to do.
This is 110% correct -- somewhere, the County/State people are overjoyed that HPP can't see past its dysfunctional politics, because the sideshow is keeping everyone distracted while they continue to play "that road isn't a Road (but we do need a tax increase for maintenance)".
As I've said, while these issues are portrayed as "internal to HPP", a precedent will be set on the outcome. If the State DoH can "force" HPP residents to pave their entire "private" road network AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE, rest assured that all other subdivisions will be forced to follow.
I dare say it's time for a "Puna Road Coalition" which unites ALL "private" subdivisions into the shared goal of forcing County to fish-or-cut-bait.