12-27-2013, 05:25 PM
One of the things I like about the County of Hawaii is that they can still pave a road without adhering to heavy regulations. This County has a lot of flexibility roadway wise without much complex established bureaucracy and heavy handed regulations. For example the road below Leilani Estates with a split in the road with a Mango tree in the center... I like THAT! But I also fear that type of road design flexibility will shortly become history.
One of my fears is waiting 5 or 10 more years and having the county come in with no input from us and tossing in a 40' wide straighter and leveled highway quality road with the trees cut way back because their roadway regulations change and then Helco is granted an easement and comes along and tosses up high tensions power lines on that approved type of roadway. The State will eventually establish heavy County regulations on all roadway designs in the near future, that's for certain. It's coming, just like the State required adoption of IBC codes for the County building codes. More and more uniform heavy regulations are coming down from the State and Federal levels.
So while we sit here and bicker over capping the current meandering road in asphalt, all of us be it against or for capping the current road may end up getting shafted much worse if we wait and have a roadway type forced on all of us that we don't want. Like now for example, we could ask that the big mango going up the hill just South of the Waa Waa line be left and the road split around it. Now we can ask for these types of things... later, more than likely not. Now we can be part of the design process - tomorrow we wont be allowed input on design.
By putting in the improvements today as we want them with our input and todays flexibility... the less likely a straight 40' wide roadway with power lines will ever be adopted. We can effectively stamp out the possibility of more subdivisions being put in for years to come but only if we make improvement that disallow those possibilities. We could get a nice park put in at sand hills if we lean on the state to hand over the land to the county. We could put in chicanes on the beach road designed on the existing topography and trees. We wont get that type of chance in the future, it will become like the mainland's regulations and we'll have limited to no a say in the matter.
A neglected area is developers dream, low cost land and no obstructions is a place to establish something, VIOLA! People who resist improvements unwittingly promote new developments. That's how it works. Either get on the ball and make improvement that are unfriendly to new developments or resist change ignorantly and let someone else make the changes for you. The choice is up to you, shape and form your community or neglect it and turn it over to others. The only way to fight development is through development. The ball is currently in our court... the choice is up to us.
- Armed citizens provide security of a free State.
One of my fears is waiting 5 or 10 more years and having the county come in with no input from us and tossing in a 40' wide straighter and leveled highway quality road with the trees cut way back because their roadway regulations change and then Helco is granted an easement and comes along and tosses up high tensions power lines on that approved type of roadway. The State will eventually establish heavy County regulations on all roadway designs in the near future, that's for certain. It's coming, just like the State required adoption of IBC codes for the County building codes. More and more uniform heavy regulations are coming down from the State and Federal levels.
So while we sit here and bicker over capping the current meandering road in asphalt, all of us be it against or for capping the current road may end up getting shafted much worse if we wait and have a roadway type forced on all of us that we don't want. Like now for example, we could ask that the big mango going up the hill just South of the Waa Waa line be left and the road split around it. Now we can ask for these types of things... later, more than likely not. Now we can be part of the design process - tomorrow we wont be allowed input on design.
By putting in the improvements today as we want them with our input and todays flexibility... the less likely a straight 40' wide roadway with power lines will ever be adopted. We can effectively stamp out the possibility of more subdivisions being put in for years to come but only if we make improvement that disallow those possibilities. We could get a nice park put in at sand hills if we lean on the state to hand over the land to the county. We could put in chicanes on the beach road designed on the existing topography and trees. We wont get that type of chance in the future, it will become like the mainland's regulations and we'll have limited to no a say in the matter.
A neglected area is developers dream, low cost land and no obstructions is a place to establish something, VIOLA! People who resist improvements unwittingly promote new developments. That's how it works. Either get on the ball and make improvement that are unfriendly to new developments or resist change ignorantly and let someone else make the changes for you. The choice is up to you, shape and form your community or neglect it and turn it over to others. The only way to fight development is through development. The ball is currently in our court... the choice is up to us.
- Armed citizens provide security of a free State.