05-16-2014, 05:48 AM
Rob,
People did not buy or build as far as they are from city services in HPP to live on a mainland style small lot with a high speed commuter route in their backyard. Those people would have all the inconveniences of an urban environment, and none of the advantages. When half of a 1 acre lot is taken, in many cases that puts the roadway very close to, or right through, the house, this is one of the drawbacks to retrofitting a roadway like this into existing neighborhoods. If you have ever been in a community where roads, bypasses, or freeway bridges are plopped into neighborhoods, the houses closest to those additions usually become mini slums with cheap rentals, because no one who can afford not to wants to live with that.
I know we need better connectivity and emergency evacuation routes for Puna, but we also need to be sensitive to the people who will be negatively impacted by those changes. The track records of HDOT and Hawaii county planning division do not inspire a lot of confidence in how they would handle this project. Calling people names like NIMBYs for being concerned about how this project would proceed is not really fair.
Carol
People did not buy or build as far as they are from city services in HPP to live on a mainland style small lot with a high speed commuter route in their backyard. Those people would have all the inconveniences of an urban environment, and none of the advantages. When half of a 1 acre lot is taken, in many cases that puts the roadway very close to, or right through, the house, this is one of the drawbacks to retrofitting a roadway like this into existing neighborhoods. If you have ever been in a community where roads, bypasses, or freeway bridges are plopped into neighborhoods, the houses closest to those additions usually become mini slums with cheap rentals, because no one who can afford not to wants to live with that.
I know we need better connectivity and emergency evacuation routes for Puna, but we also need to be sensitive to the people who will be negatively impacted by those changes. The track records of HDOT and Hawaii county planning division do not inspire a lot of confidence in how they would handle this project. Calling people names like NIMBYs for being concerned about how this project would proceed is not really fair.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb