Alternate makai access road?

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The Saddle road changes did not involve seizing property from almost 200 individual property owners, many of them homes. That real estate is going to cost a whole lot more per square foot than whatever private land had to be taken for Saddle Road. One of the routes that has been bandied about recently is literally in my back yard, several of the places behind us are built pretty close to the property line and will have to be torn down to make way for the PMAR. We are talking about $200,000-$300,000 homes. No matter what route is chosen, there has been a whole lot of building in HPP over the last 10 years and there will be homes that will have to be destroyed to build it. That runs up the cost pretty quick. In our case we would just get a small payment for the land and all value in my home will be lost; due to the terrain, the PMAR will take all our privacy and the noise will be untenable. This home is my single largest asset, I will lose all the value of my equity if it goes through my backyard, if it isn't my backyard it will be someone else's. So, yes, I guess we can be derisively called NIMBYs, but stop and think about how you would feel if the shoe was on the other foot, and you were going to be faced with a road being put in through your backyard by the same people who are doing such a swell job of planning and executing all the other road work on this island.

FYI, that was not one of the proposed routes when we carefully researched before buying our house. This has been a shell game for years, making it hard for people to know where they could buy and be safely away from this project.

Carol