03-03-2014, 04:41 AM
The real question is why is there even a Community Development Plan?
It should be pretty simple. There isn't going to be any development south of the East Rift ridge and probably south of HPP with the new lava flow projections. There will be people buying and building houses, different agriculture operations, small businesses, but in terms of any major industrial, factory, financial, resort, or any other community impact investments, the chance of those happening is virtually nil. Nobody is going to sink a huge investment into an area that has high risk of being totally cutoff for 20 years and beyond.
A Puna community development plan would be mostly applicable to the HPP-Kea'au-Shipman or North Puna, if you will. South Puna really needs no development plan.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
It should be pretty simple. There isn't going to be any development south of the East Rift ridge and probably south of HPP with the new lava flow projections. There will be people buying and building houses, different agriculture operations, small businesses, but in terms of any major industrial, factory, financial, resort, or any other community impact investments, the chance of those happening is virtually nil. Nobody is going to sink a huge investment into an area that has high risk of being totally cutoff for 20 years and beyond.
A Puna community development plan would be mostly applicable to the HPP-Kea'au-Shipman or North Puna, if you will. South Puna really needs no development plan.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*