08-23-2014, 04:02 AM
Not to make light of the issues, but: how quickly we forget that these massive subdivisions were actually a tax mining operation, never intended for actual settlement.
As always, the problem has been made worse because it was allowed to fester. When PGV broke ground, they should have bought out all then-current residents of Leilani. Potential health issues should have been made "mandatory disclosure" for all those lots. Instead, people kept moving there and building houses, now it's faux-residential with all the NIMBY that entails.
A neat solution would be to grant all of Leilani ML zoning as an overlay, then adjust HELCO's tariff so Leilani gets power at PGV cost+10%.
As always, the problem has been made worse because it was allowed to fester. When PGV broke ground, they should have bought out all then-current residents of Leilani. Potential health issues should have been made "mandatory disclosure" for all those lots. Instead, people kept moving there and building houses, now it's faux-residential with all the NIMBY that entails.
A neat solution would be to grant all of Leilani ML zoning as an overlay, then adjust HELCO's tariff so Leilani gets power at PGV cost+10%.