Has anyone noticed.. the latest changes @ Kilauea

[csgray]

There is the issue of the government permitting the division of large empty parcels of ag land on the downhill side of an active volcano into .2 to 1 acre lots, which were then sold as residential property to unsuspecting buyers who had know idea that they were buying property with substandard roads (or NO roads in some cases) and no utilities. Look at some of the early marketing of the Puna subdivisions that were used to sell pieces of "Paradise" to mainlanders, what exists here is not even close to what was "sold". The Hawaii County government has been collecting taxes on those properties for decades, allowed the subdivisions to be created and sold, and forced people who built on those properties to bear the expense of building to code. To now say that people just should have known better than to move there is a little disingenuous.

Carol