10-06-2014, 07:03 AM
Actually driving these issues from within Planning is a great idea on paper; the reality is that I simply don't have the political connections necessary to land a County job, and even if I were magically appointed, I would always have the minority viewpoint, hence accomplish nothing.
It's impossible to retrofit civic planning after-the-fact. We need completely different solutions, but the Powers That Be insist on seeing everything in terms of the current paradigm. Population increase = more trips to town, obviously the road needs to be wider to accomodate, no need to look at other solutions...
That said, yes, I agree there's nothing productive to be had with complaints and blame. Then again, it's not clear that the PCDP is accomplishing much other than to spawn endless committees and working groups who propose recommendations which look ... exactly like what we have now.
County should facilitate any and all development that the individual subdivisions elect by majority vote of their landowners. Puna-wide "one size fits all" is a failure.
It's impossible to retrofit civic planning after-the-fact. We need completely different solutions, but the Powers That Be insist on seeing everything in terms of the current paradigm. Population increase = more trips to town, obviously the road needs to be wider to accomodate, no need to look at other solutions...
That said, yes, I agree there's nothing productive to be had with complaints and blame. Then again, it's not clear that the PCDP is accomplishing much other than to spawn endless committees and working groups who propose recommendations which look ... exactly like what we have now.
County should facilitate any and all development that the individual subdivisions elect by majority vote of their landowners. Puna-wide "one size fits all" is a failure.