08-22-2014, 06:39 AM
Some comments:
Seeb, it's not "spot zoning" the zoning map has been changed. Each RS zoned lot has to have a separate application for Change of zone though.
Examples within a 1/4 mile include Big Island Candies, the shops that house Miyo's, the flooring warehouse across the street from Hawaiian Style Cafe, Tokunagas Fishing Supply, and some unidentified businesses that look like construction company yards.
csgray's extreme concerns remind me of the old axiom, 99% of the things you worry about never happen. "semi fermented human waste". Really? The DOH would be all over that and they would lose their license.
kalakoa writes "Perfectly reasonable if this standard is also applied elsehwere (hint: it's not)." Please explain the "standard" you are referring to so I can agree or disagree on an informed basis. I don't think I mentioned any standard in my first post.
"good old boys letting the average person's rights get trampled"
I think many of you presume too much in the negative about the way things work down at the County Building. It is not uniformly inhabited by scoundrels and unethical types, nor do we elect same to monitor those employees. They are us. You may not see yourself in that context but that's what a community is, all types and sorts of people working towards both individual and common goals. There's some bad attitudes and incompetence, but that's true not just at Council and DPW but schools, HELCO, McDonalds, and any other aggregation of human beings.
One example for me is the Planning Dept. I've had some good experiences there and been treated, I feel, quite badly at other times. I now try to avoid certain individuals if I can, yet others I know seek those same individuals out because of prior positive experiences. However if I'm faced with working with someone whom I've had a difficult prior experience with I don't give up on what I'm trying to accomplish. Instead I rely on the Rule of Law and the remedies allowed at every level of decision making when you don't agree with a governmental decision. As the neighbor who is offended by the permitted building is doing now.
Seeb, it's not "spot zoning" the zoning map has been changed. Each RS zoned lot has to have a separate application for Change of zone though.
Examples within a 1/4 mile include Big Island Candies, the shops that house Miyo's, the flooring warehouse across the street from Hawaiian Style Cafe, Tokunagas Fishing Supply, and some unidentified businesses that look like construction company yards.
csgray's extreme concerns remind me of the old axiom, 99% of the things you worry about never happen. "semi fermented human waste". Really? The DOH would be all over that and they would lose their license.
kalakoa writes "Perfectly reasonable if this standard is also applied elsehwere (hint: it's not)." Please explain the "standard" you are referring to so I can agree or disagree on an informed basis. I don't think I mentioned any standard in my first post.
"good old boys letting the average person's rights get trampled"
I think many of you presume too much in the negative about the way things work down at the County Building. It is not uniformly inhabited by scoundrels and unethical types, nor do we elect same to monitor those employees. They are us. You may not see yourself in that context but that's what a community is, all types and sorts of people working towards both individual and common goals. There's some bad attitudes and incompetence, but that's true not just at Council and DPW but schools, HELCO, McDonalds, and any other aggregation of human beings.
One example for me is the Planning Dept. I've had some good experiences there and been treated, I feel, quite badly at other times. I now try to avoid certain individuals if I can, yet others I know seek those same individuals out because of prior positive experiences. However if I'm faced with working with someone whom I've had a difficult prior experience with I don't give up on what I'm trying to accomplish. Instead I rely on the Rule of Law and the remedies allowed at every level of decision making when you don't agree with a governmental decision. As the neighbor who is offended by the permitted building is doing now.